2 Jan
2010
2 Jan
'10
7:09 a.m.
Am 01.01.10 12:00, schrieb rosea grammostola:
But can I make an note here?
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?
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.
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.
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