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Hydrogen

Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a software synthesizer which is able to be used either by itself, emulating a drum machine based on patterns, or via an external MIDI keyboard/sequencer software.

It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.



 Hydrogen 0.9.4 beta2

Price
Free to download

Size
3.5MB

License
GNU GPL v2

Developer
Alessandro Cominu and contributors

Website
hydrogen-music.org

System Requirements
QT3
Jack, ALSA, OSS

Support Sites:
Hydrogen Documentation, Hydrogen Forum, Hydrogen Mailing Lists, Wiki, Using Linux to create slick drum beats

Selected Reviews:
Softpedia, Linux Journal

Features include:

General

  • User-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 3
  • Sample-based stereo 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 individual 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, pitch and swing functions
  • Multiple patterns playing at once

Other

  • JACK, ALSA, PortAudio and OSS audio drivers
  • ALSA MIDI and PortMidi input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL)
  • Import/export of drumkits
  • LASH audio session support
  • Export song to wav file
  • Export song to midi file
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Last Updated Tuesday, August 11 2009 @ 02:26 PM EDT


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