On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:31:18 -0600 (CST) Brent Busby <brent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My old MPC2000 (non-XL) is starting to act oddly, and it has got me > thinking about whether I should even continue depending on the Akai > hardware, which generates rock solid sequencer time, but is eventually > going to be unmaintainable, and leave me with a lot of sequences and > sample libraries in various odd proprietary formats. > > So while I'm working on getting my MPC working again, I'm also checking > into the possibility of replacing its usefulness with a mixture of > Hydrogen, Jack, Linuxsampler, and Ardour. There are a few questions > though: > > 1) This is probably pretty basic, but...can you send each > drum/instrument in a Hydrogen kit out a different physical audio > output in Jack? My whole setup is very much based on physical > hardware -- a real mixer board, real rack effects, etc. I haven't > heard a Ladspa plugin yet that offered EQ that really satisfied me > much, and I'm used to being able to do EQ on my mixer from the 10 > outputs of my MPC, individually, per track, and also using rack > effects from the effects loops and a real hardware patchbay. I could > keep doing that if I can send individual Hydrogen tracks out to audio > outputs on my RME Multiface. I could also add more outputs as > needed. It'd be ideal if you could just route individual tracks to > hardware outputs via Jack. Not directly but you can have multiple instances of hydrogen so your could send groups of sounds to different effects. > 2) Hydrogen seems a lot like the Roland TR-series drum machines, based > on putting notes on "ticks" on a grid. I didn't see much mention of > free-form human feel drumming though. Is there a way to just not > quantize at all, and realize at least a standard 96 ticks per quarter > note type of resolution (or more)? It accepts normal MIDI messages, so an external keyboard can directly control it, so can a sequencer like Rosegarden. > 3) Also, all the discussion of entering rhythms in the documentation > seemed to involve using the QWERTY keyboard, which obviously isn't > going to be velocity-sensitive. Is there a way to have an outboard > synthesizer keyboard (or even better, my Simmons drumset with Roland > PM16 pad-to-midi) play or sequence Hydrogen patterns via midi, with > full velocity sensitivity? QWERTY keyboard is an awful way to have > to sequence. See above! > 4) If these are things that are beyond Hydrogen's abilities, would I be > better off trying to go through Muse or Rosegarden to achieve these > things? Or maybe just stick with hardware samplers for now? I'm > mostly attracted to the idea of doing sampling and sequencing on FOSS > software rather than on hardware samplers because the saved data > doesn't have orphanhood in its future that way. See above again :) > Any ideas on how best to go about making Linux audio software replace an > Akai MPC? Not a clue - never had one! -- 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
