Hi guys!
i have been playing around with the current H2 version (built from git code) on my work laptop and so far i'm liking it a lot ! the switch to QT5 seems to be working really well and looks great too since i will be switching to the latest version on my music laptop ASAP i started writing down what i'm still missing recently i started with a new electro-dance-stuff project and that requires a rather different approach: H2 is the main sequencer that i use for the beats. a number of external (really cool :-) analogue synths are hooked up to it for melody/bass/FX ... ... hmmm, maybe i should do a new article on using hydrogen for live projects but focusing on this electro-setup this time ... anyway, i decided to share with you my 'Hydrogen wishlist' :-D let me know what you think ! i have placed my missing features in order of importance, and i have added links to existing github tickets where possible you will see that most of the features are not new and are also usable for 'regular' use of H2 grtz Thijs 1) Full MIDI automation (for use with MIDI controllers) - All knobs & buttons MIDI controllable (that includes per channel mute, FX send and return) - MIDI feedback for all knobs & buttons <https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/265> - Use case : when using H2 live this allows you use the midi controller exclusively instead of having to look at the PC screen 2) ‘MIDI only’ instrument <https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/63> - Add option to make a instrument ‘MIDI only’ - This eliminates the need for using an empty dummy sample 3) Allow parameter linking - Use case : this allows you to use 1 fader (on a MIDI controller) to change the volume of multiple instruments. Almost all instrument I create are layered. Eg for a handclap i typically use handclap instruments from multiple drumkits - option 1 - Link volume sliders of multiple instruments by adding them to the same group (as used on any mixing console) - Implementation : right-click a fader and select the ‘link group’ - Remark : moving any of the linked faders moves the other faders AND sends out MIDI feedback for all grouped faders - This option is actually related to the ‘instrument layer group’ feature that was recently implemented - Option 2 - Allow control of multiple knobs/buttons by allowing linking multiple parameters to 1 MIDI controller <https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/268> - Implementation : goto Tools > Preferences > Midi system - Hit the ‘learn’ button, move a fader on the controller, link to fader of intrument X - Hit the ‘learn’ button, move the same fader, link to fader of instrument Y - Now 2 instrument faders are linked to the same physical fader 4) Add channel ‘MIDI mute <https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/266>’ - MIDI mute differs from a regular ‘audio mute’ : - Audio mute will abruptly mute the sound of an instrument - MIDI mute should mute the ‘trigger’ (ie the note in the pattern) so playing samples simply play till the end but new notes dont trigger the playout of a new sample - Use case : this allows you to do a short real-time mute of an instrument when using H2 live - Implementation : change the current channel ‘mute’ button to ‘A-Mute’ and add a ‘M-Mute’ button. Both buttons can obviously be midi controlled 5) Fix rubberband implementation - H2 crashes when you have rubberband enabled and use ‘large’ samples (especially when mouse-scrolling the tempo > this probably triggers rubberband time stretching with each change in tempo - Possible workaround (?) : add some sort of delay before rubberband actually starts processing the sample, so when you scroll the tempo up/down it doesnt immediately trigger rubberband timestratching - Will create a ticket on how to easily reproduce this -- follow me on my Audio & Linux blog <http://audio-and-linux.blogspot.com/> !
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