Hydrogen-1.1.0-beta1 is a beta test release of Hydrogen, which previews new features forthcoming in Hydrogen-1.1.

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

New features previewed by this release include:

• Keyboard cursor-driven pattern, song and note properties editing
• Note selection and movement in pattern editors
• New OSC commands (new song, open song, save song (as), quit,
  • toggle looped playback, toggle timeline, toggle Jack transport,
  • toggle Jack timebase master, add/delete timeline marker,
  • toggle song/pattern playback mode)
• NSM support reworked
• Deprecating JACK-session
• Instrument main pitch shift offset
• Custom pattern size support with representation in note values
• Custom pan law support in mixer
• Various bug fixes
  

As this is a beta test release, please report any issues encountered. The Hydrogen-1.0 release line (including the latest Hydrogen-1.0.2) remains the stable release line, and can be used if any critical issues are encountered.

# Links

Release assets: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/releases/tag/1.1.0-beta1

Official webpage: http://hydrogen-music.org/