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.
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