On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:27:09 +0100 rosea grammostola <rosea.grammostola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sebastian Moors wrote: > > Am 01.01.10 12:00, schrieb rosea grammostola: > >> > >> But can I make an note here? > >> > >> I saw you're busy making an piano-roll editor for hydrogen. I really > >> doubt whether that is the right direction for Hydrogen. Especially with > >> in mind that there are already good midi sequencers on Linux or they are > >> planned e.g. openoctavemidi, qtractor, ardour3 etc. Also the Hydrogen > >> team was lacking time and developers for a long time afaik, so why make > >> it yourself difficult now? > >> > > We had a discussion about the direction of hydrogen recently on our > > mailing list and decided > > that hydrogen should stay a something like a "drum machine" and is not > > going to be a live composing app > > ( Gabriel's "composite" is going in that direction). > > But beside that, often developers develop features which are useful > > for them :) > > > > You should also take into account that the piano roll editor is not > > meant as a replacement for a full midi sequencer, it is more like a > > extension to the existing sequencer. > > > >> I played yesterday with non-sequencer and hydrogen. I really don't need > >> another midi sequencer, also not for live cause non-seq is good capable > >> of doing that... What I do need is an drummachine with a quality as good > >> as possible. Why not concentrate on that (not easy) task? More functions > >> makes also the GUI more complex imo and simplicity in use was one of the > >> powers of Hydrogen. > >> > >> Why not stick with the one-task-one-tool principle? It's not by > >> accident that the openoctave team has stripped Rosegarden... I think > >> with the progress of Ladish there is a great potential for this > >> principle again. > >> > > The one-task-one-tool principle was *never* really used by hydrogen, > > so we can't stick with it :) > > Hydrogen has always been a tool which included things like a > > sequencers and combined them and was not only one thing. > > A lot of people like it this way, not at least because on other > > platforms ( hydrogen is used a lot on windows and osx ) people are > > not used to the modular way linux offers. > > > > But after all, we discuss a lot about which feature we really need and > > what not, so every comment is really welcome! > > Thanks, > > Sebastian > > > > > > > > Hi, > > I jumped to the mailinglist when I was playing with non-sequencer and > hydrogen and thought, why another sequencer, I need an drummachine! It > looks to me that you're looking critical which feature to add and which > not. I'm happy with that and I'm hoping Hydrogen will be my drummachine > of choice for some time. Good luck with the project. > > \r > I'm not a 'heavy' hydrogen user - hmmm that has possibilities :) but for what it's worth, here are my thoughts. When trying to develop a new idea I'll often use hydrogen's pattern/sequencer thingy to see how it sounds, and for the convenience of being able to just drop hits in, or pull them out while the pattern is playing. Once I have something I like, I'll then transfer it to a Rosegarden track, and use hydrogen as a slave. This gives me much greater control and a single integrated interface for MIDI, samples, synths etc. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
