Category:	Music
Price:	Free
Popularity:	Low
Version String:	1.2.3
Release Date:	2024-01-12
Architecture:	Intel
Minimum OS:	macOS 10.12.0
Vendor Name:	Hydrogen Developers
Homepage:	www.hydrogen-music.org

Description:

An advanced drum machine with pattern-based programming

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. 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.
• Time-stretch and pitch functions via rubberband cli. Require the rubberband-cli package.
• Play-lists with scripting function.
• Advanced tab-tempo.
• Director Window with a visual metronome and song position tags.
• Time-line with variable tempo.
• Single and stacked pattern mode.
• Export/Import single patterns into song projects.
• Midi learning via Shift+MouseClick on many gui-cotrollers combined with a midi settings editor.
• 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.
• JACK MIDI, 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.
• Export song to lilypond file.