Hydrogen 0.9.3 review

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Comix/Artemio

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Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. Hydrogen's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

Here are some key features of "Hydrogen":
General

Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 3.
Sample-based streo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats.
Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.

Sequencer and mixer

Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
Up to 64 ticks per pattern with induvidual level per event and variable pattern length.
32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
Ability to import/export song files.
Unique human velocity, human time and swing functions.
Multiple patterns playing at once.

Other

OSS and Jack audio drivers, with assignable Jack ports.
ALSA MIDI input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
Import/export of drumkits.
Export song to wav file.
Export song to midi file.

What's New in This Release:
WASP Ladspa plugins are included.
Various Jack audio output bugfixes were done.
A new color theme was added.
A bug which caused 100% CPU usage was fixed.