Am Tue, 5 Jul 2011 05:59:27 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Er <[email protected]>:
> Hi! > > The latest version of hydrogen has some exiting features to say the least. > Features > that may open some new ways to make music on linux. See, H2 has become one > one the > greatest drum-machine available for "off-line" programming. However the > latest features > made me believe it could also become (or be forked as) an awesome > live-oriented > drum-machine (and beyond). > > The main purpose of this message is to discuss few ideas I had. > > Are they possible? Is H2 the proper starting point for those? How much work > would be > needed (would it be "tweaks", add-ons, complete re-writing...?) > > > Let's list em : > > 1) The new layer editing tool can achieve some incredible results. > Rubberbands can > makes any sample sound like a Transformer :p. So far it needs to be > "rendered". Is it > possible to make it real-time for live midi manipulation? > > > 2) With those new features (if let's imagine idea n°1 is possible) it would > be a shame > not to use the piano-roll and rubberband on more complex samples (Let's say > power > chords, voices, etc...). So far you'd certainly agree. But now would it be > possible to > make a layer out of some live recorded sample. For example from loops > recorded with > sooperlooper or with a built-in record button in H2 (the simplest wins). > > The main idea behind this, is to open the field of on-the-fly > de/re-construction of > live recorded loops. > > Let's imagine what can be achieved : > - You come on stage with some pre-made pattern on your H2. > - You play some guitar. Loop it alongside to some voices > - Then you "drop" those samples into H2 and play you pattern. > - Finally you add the live-post-processing mentioned above and there you go. > > > Do you think H2 can be a good base for a live oriented sample-based > groove-machine > fork? With more midi and a midi triggered pattern (quite a bit like seq24)? > > I hope you'll find those ideas interesting and not too sci-fi-ish. Laybe > it'll be a > start for something, but right now it's just exploration. > > Thanks for reading this, > > Best,, > > E. currently there two features i interested in. 1. export audio from sampleeditor. why, the sampleditor can do a really good job to fit samples to beats and their corresponding bpm values. this is possible with rubberband, the start-stop pointer and the target-sample-length dropdown. an export make it possible to store your creations to use them in an other way than hydrogen do this. 2. record samples and push them into a temporally sample container which holds different possibility’s. for example copy the sample to instrument x and fit them to currently used pattern length. the post processing jobs from the sample container are customisable by user. the main important thing is, that this can happens via customizable midi actions. this make it possible to use h2 as an simple looprecorder which records mostly in timing:). here one of the main features must the possibility to work with auto punch in/out function. this means the actor has no need to push the recordbutton exactly. he can just push the button some time before the new beat starts. but!!!, the next planed release is mainly orientated on stability without to much new features. so, this have to wait a little bit. greetings wolke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel
