hi there! I started this proposal here: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/Song-and-pattern-repository/issues/4 Just because I didn't know where to put it and it seemed a good place to start.
I copy-paste and I'll extend a little bit the original message. I would like to give patterns some love. I needed to create some patterns for my songs and I realized that that part of Hydrogen is not used/updated. There's pages like Groove Monkee that are dedicated only to provide patterns and they make money of it. Currently Sound Library Import don't show anything when you clic on Patterns. I play the guitar and sometimes I just need something snappy, quick and easy, not wasting/investing hours to do a poor pattern. I have some suggestions: 1- Integrate patterns correctly with Hydrogen as a downloadable repo or directly with the package. Maybe starting next version a basic set (the one in github) could be integrated in the package or suggest distro packagers to create an additional package (hydrogen-patterns) 2- Improve pattern workflow. Clicking on a pattern should give the option to listen to it even if not loaded so you can see if it fits your needs. Also double clicking should load the pattern and focus on it. Pattern library could be near pattern list instead of the opposite corner with a quick show/hide button so you can load them quickly. 3- Patterns should be kit agnostics. Sometimes I discard a pattern because it sound bad and later I found is because it was created with another kit so elements get mixed. This shouldn't happen. Also it would be great to be able to import midi directly. I know this have been discussed in the past and maybe is a good time to start. 4- Autoload patterns on new song. When you create a song ask if you want an empty pattern or if you want to start with some genre specific pattern: rock, blues, samba... 5- More patterns! We need tons of patterns here. Maybe we could show some hint to encourage people to share their patterns. Maybe some anual contest with actual prizes. Also, could be great to be able to upload patterns to a public repo directly from the app. Overall, I think we need to improve that area and even make it more prominent with the final goal of having a nice song with just some clicks. Take this video is a lousy inspiration (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEJH3WM6Oz8) I can offer some help. My background comes from linux administration but I've participated in some projects and I can offer a server to host a free repo and I can do some other work on the server side. I'm not a developer but I can do some bash magic (https://gist.github.com/muzzol/5f5d27c155d6113069445c7d3b6910f2) and mantain domains and services. I understant that this could be a lot of work so as Olivier suggested, this could be divided in several FR so we can start working on some things while pausing some others. make patterns great again! mussol -- ======================== ^ ^ O O (_ _) muzzol(a)muzzol.com ======================== No atribueixis qualitats humanes als ordinadors. No els hi agrada. ======================== "El gobierno español sólo habla con terroristas, homosexuales y catalanes, a ver cuando se decide a hablar con gente normal" Jiménez Losantos ======================== _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-devel mailing list Hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel
