Well, I wouldn't restrict the allowed instruments to the list below. After all Hydrogen is way more than a synthesizer/sequencer for MIDI and the GM standard is almost 30 years old. It's certainly a matter of taste and music but I prefer having a semi-open hi hat, a rimshot or maybe even a second snare over a mute triangle, bongos, and a cowbell.
But I'm not into MIDI. What is the pain you are having with respect to the current implementation? Maybe we can expose (per default but adjustable by the user) a reduced set complaint with GM based on the tags. Or make such an exposure optional. Cheers, P On 4/26/20 10:22 PM, muzzol wrote: > My opinion is all kits should use standard GM as reference and if > someone wants to go beyond just add instruments at the end: > > Note Drum Sound > ==== ========== > B0 Acoustic Bass Drum > C1 Bass Drum 1 > C#1 Side Stick > D1 Acoustic Snare > Eb1 Hand Clap > E1 Electric Snare > F1 Low Floor Tom > F#1 Closed Hi Hat > G1 High Floor Tom > Ab1 Pedal Hi-Hat > A1 Low Tom > Bb1 Open Hi-Hat > B1 Low-Mid Tom > C2 Hi Mid Tom > C#2 Crash Cymbal 1 > D2 High Tom > Eb2 Ride Cymbal 1 > E2 Chinese Cymbal > F2 Ride Bell > F#2 Tambourine > G2 Splash Cymbal > Ab2 Cowbell > A2 Crash Cymbal 2 > Bb2 Vibraslap > B2 Ride Cymbal 2 > C3 Hi Bongo > C#3 Low Bongo > D3 Mute Hi Conga > Eb3 Open Hi Conga > E3 Low Conga > F3 High Timbale > F#3 Low Timbale > G3 High Agogo > Ab3 Low Agogo > A3 Cabasa > Bb3 Maracas > B3 Short Whistle > C4 Long Whistle > C#4 Short Guiro > D4 Long Guiro > Eb4 Claves > E4 Hi Wood Block > F4 Low Wood Block > F#4 Mute Cuica > G4 Open Cuica > Ab4 Mute Triangle > A4 Open Triangle > > I think this instrument is the only one that people break this rule > (beside fun noises), you'll never find a C in flute corresponding to a > F, so why is this allowed in drums? > > mussol > > Missatge de Philipp Müller via Hydrogen-devel > <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> del dia dg., 26 d’abr. 2020 a > les 22:14: >> I'm quite interested in this one too. But for a slightly different reason. >> Right now it is not possible to just switch between different drumkits in >> order to determine which one fits a particular song best. Since the >> assignment of the new instrument while switching is determined by the >> vertical position of the particular instrument and not by its nature, one >> has to do a lot of adjustments by hand. I ended up writing some elisp helper >> functions [1] but it's still tedious. >> >> Another thing is the renaming of the per-instruments JACK ports after >> switching the drumkit. Is it really necessary that the ports have to same >> name as the particular instrument or could it be just "snare1, snare2, >> kick1" ..? This way JACK-based wiring into effects, mixers or other >> applications could be preserved to a large extend. >> >> I think both inconveniences could be resolved by tags. One with a limited >> set of qualifiers (like "crash", "kick", etc) and one holding an uint to >> determine the order/priority. If the second one is missing, the order of >> appearance will be used. If the first one is missing (for all or some >> instruments), they will handled upon switching/renaming as we do right now. >> What do you think? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Phil >> >> [1] >> https://github.com/theGreatWhiteShark/configurations-and-scripts/blob/master/emacs/elisp/hydrogen.el >> >> On 4/26/20 12:12 PM, mau...@smoors.de wrote: >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> Yes, this has been discussed in the past. But without any result. Do >> you have any good idea how to implement this? We discussed a tag-based >> system, but this was years ago and nobody had since an interest in >> implementing >> this. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Hydrogen-devel mailing list >> Hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel > > _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-devel mailing list Hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel
