[LAU] Question about Hydrogen's swing feature

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 08:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I remember that when I used Hydrogen a long time ago the timing
> option did affect the timing. I don't remember that the swing option did
> affect it, perhaps it did, perhaps not.
> 
> "A "swing note" or "shuffle note" is a performance practice, mainly in
> jazz-influenced music, in which some notes with equal written time
> values are performed with unequal durations, usually as alternating
> long and short. Music of the Baroque and Classical notes inégales era
> follow similar principles. A swing or shuffle rhythm is the rhythm
> produced by playing repeated pairs of notes in this way.[9] Lilting can
> refer to swinging, but might also indicate syncopation or other subtle
> ways of interpreting and shaping musical time. A blues shuffle or
> shuffle pattern is a boogie groove." -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(jazz_performance_style)#Swing_note

IOW swing isn't just variance of the timing, it's smart phrasing. So
perhaps Hydorgen cares about it, so that it just has got impact to some
kind of rhythms. Perhaps the OP should ask at Hydrogen mailing list
http://www.hydrogen-music.org/hcms/node/27 .