Hydrogen 0.9.6 Beta 1

Hydrogen aims to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

Hydrogen is available for the most important platforms.

Here are some key features of "Hydrogen":

General:
· Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 3.
· Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats.
· Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.

Sequencer and mixer:
· Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
· Up to 64 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.
· 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
· Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
· Ability to import/export song files.
· Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.
· Multiple patterns playing at once.

Other:
· JACK, ALSA, PortAudio and OSS audio drivers.
· ALSA MIDI and PortMidi input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
· Import/export of drumkits.
· Export song to wav file.
· Export song to midi file.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· new build system (cmake)
· add undo for song/pattern editor
· jack-session support
· some bug fixes