On 08/28/2009 01:26 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield
wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
Hydrogen
has some similarities to AL... so I've pondered if it could be
forked (or developed) to become a live DAW.
Could you elaborate? What similarities, what's missing (just the big
picture), it's been a while since a glanced at hydrogen.
The main feature of AL is the scenes and loop-based composition,
right? This is essentially a specialized sequencer/sampler. And
hydrogen is a sequencer/sampler.
Further, Hydrogen is based on the idea of have several patterns
(like a loop) that you set up. Then the song is composed in a
sort of paint-by-numbers fashion. This is a lot like AL's scenes.
Hydrogen also has some DAW-like features, including some primative mixing
and FX.
Hydrogen lacks any code for looping or beat slicing. Also, the audio
internals are a little ugly IMHO -- but I've been working to improve
that. When I'm done, I expect the backend to be *very* DAW-like.
It does have code for looping a sequenced list.
It doesn't have is an AL like grid for triggering samples.
It does have the ability to trigger a sample manually.
IIUC, it doesn't have functionality to play multiple patterns at the
same time.