[LAU] Hydrogen 0.9.5-beta1 (discussion)

[Sebastian Moors]

Am 01.01.10 12:00, schrieb rosea grammostola:
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> But can I make an note here?
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> I saw you're busy making an piano-roll editor for hydrogen. I really
> doubt whether that is the right direction for Hydrogen. Especially with
> in mind that there are already good midi sequencers on Linux or they are
> planned e.g. openoctavemidi, qtractor, ardour3 etc. Also the Hydrogen
> team was lacking time and developers for a long time afaik, so why make
> it yourself difficult now?
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We had a discussion about the direction of hydrogen recently on our 
mailing list and decided
that hydrogen should stay a something like a "drum machine" and is not 
going to be a live composing app
( Gabriel's  "composite" is going in that direction).
But beside that, often developers develop features which are useful for 
them :)

You should also take into account that the piano roll editor is not 
meant as a replacement for a full midi sequencer, it is more like a 
extension to the existing sequencer.

> I played yesterday with non-sequencer and hydrogen. I really don't need
> another midi sequencer, also not for live cause non-seq is good capable
> of doing that... What I do need is an drummachine with a quality as good
> as possible. Why not concentrate on that (not easy) task? More functions
> makes also the GUI more complex imo and simplicity in use was one of the
> powers of Hydrogen.
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> Why not stick with the one-task-one-tool principle?  It's not by
> accident that the openoctave team has stripped Rosegarden... I think
> with the progress of Ladish there is a great potential for this
> principle again.
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The one-task-one-tool principle was *never* really used by hydrogen, so 
we can't stick with it :)
Hydrogen has always been a tool which included things like a sequencers 
and combined them and was not only one thing.
A lot of people like it this way, not at least because on other 
platforms ( hydrogen is used a lot on windows and osx )  people are not 
used to the modular way linux offers.

But after all, we discuss a lot about which feature we really need and 
what not, so every comment is really welcome!
Thanks,
Sebastian