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Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine.

Hydrogen Platforms

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Hydrogen Overview

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

Features:
- General
-- Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 4.
-- 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 192 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.
-- Unlimited instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
-- Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
-- Sample Editor, with basic cut and loop functions. (NEW)
-- Time-stretch and pitch functions via rubberband cli. Require the rubberband-cli package. (NEW)
-- Play-lists with scripting function. (NEW)
-- Advanced tab-tempo. (NEW)
-- Director Window with a visual metronome and song position tags. (NEW)
-- Time-line with variable tempo. (NEW)
-- Single and stacked pattern mode. (NEW)
-- Export/Import single patterns into song projects. (NEW)
-- Midi learning via Shift+MouseClick on many gui-cotrollers combined with a midi settings editor. (NEW)
-- 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.
-- Export song to wav, aiff, flac or ogg file.
-- Export song to midi file.

Hydrogen Features

tick-square Drums
tick-square Decentralized

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Hydrogen Categories

Audio and Music Software

Hydrogen Tags

loop-sequencer sequencer drum midi music-sequencer drum-machine midi-composition

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