[LAU] Drum sequenser with midi out ?

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Wed May 27 14:12:04 EDT 2009



Svend-Erik Kjær Madsen wrote:
> tor, 28 05 2009 kl. 00:42 +0700, skrev Patrick Shirkey:
>   
>> Svend-Erik Kjær Madsen wrote:
>>     
>>> ons, 27 05 2009 kl. 14:47 +0700, skrev Patrick Shirkey:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Svend-Erik Kjær Madsen wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi
>>>>> I was fooling around with Hydrogen to control my Alesis SR18 drum
>>>>> machine just to find out that Hydrogen has no midi out :(
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone recommend a nice easy to use drum editor with midi out ?
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> What exactly do you mean by midi out?
>>>>
>>>> Hydrogen has limited midi controller functionality but it should be able 
>>>> to send some events. Did you try connecting ports with qjackctl?
>>>>
>>>> h2 which is the development version of hydrogen has fairly advanced midi 
>>>> controller support which needs to be tested and punished at the moment.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Patrick Shirkey
>>>> Boost Hardware Ltd
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>> Sv-e
>>>>>
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>>> I use an older version of Hydrogen which has no midi out, but midi in.
>>> As you can read in another answer I go for a newer version to solve my
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> Thanks anyway
>>>
>>> /Sv-e
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Just out of interest what are you planning to use the midi out for with 
>> your hardware? Do you need to trigger button presses on the device or 
>> are you using hydrogen to play midi samples loaded onto the device?
>>
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>>
>> Patrick Shirkey
>> Boost Hardware Ltd
>>
>>
>>     
> Hi Patrick
>
> I belive that it's a lot easier to make good drum patterns on my
> computer than on the Alesis SR18. It has great patterns build in, but
> often i need brakes and stuff not provided as standard patterns. 
>
> After thinking a little about the subject I have decided to try playing
> the pattern in by hand from the Alesis into an application  where it
> should be possible to quantise in a propper way to correct my lack of
> timing regarding drumming, and then let this application play the
> patterns as midi out to get the cool groovy drum sound of my Alesis into
> my recordings. 
>
>
> Why keep it simple, when it can be complicated :)
>
> Best regards
>
> Sv-e
>
>   


Thanks for sharing. It sounds like a lot of fun.



Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd






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