Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-21 Thread Carles Perarnau
Hi there, Of course every option has its pros and its cons. I'm not going to extend myself more, as I gave my oppinion and others theirs. A thing that I've seen in your reply about the time: hi, use ardour to change tempo in a song. ardour can do that as time master and hydrogen as transport

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-21 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Carles Perarnau wrote: My view is to stick with the UNIX philosophy: a set of simple tools which do just what they're intended to, and then are put together with pipes (jack) when needed. UNIX philosophy barely works for GUI applications. Admit it :) There

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-21 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: I've actually been a little torn on this issue... whether to go in a monolithic, all-in-one direction -- or to go in a more modular direction. There is demand for two things: 1) DSSI or LV2 drum sampler to use with tools like

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-21 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Carles Perarnau wrote: Hi there, My humble opinion is that it should remain as a drum machine. Obviously a very powerful drum machine and so, but nothing more, nothing less. By the way, when applications mature, they don't necessarily become bloated pieces

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-21 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Sometimes all you have to do is just not use features you need :) Talk about freudian slip :) Alexandre -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-21 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: My view is to stick with the UNIX philosophy: a set of simple tools which do just what they're intended to, and then are put together with pipes (jack) when needed. UNIX philosophy barely works for GUI applications. Admit it :) This is

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-21 Thread Carles Perarnau
2009/10/21 Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Carles Perarnau wrote: My view is to stick with the UNIX philosophy: a set of simple tools which do just what they're intended to, and then are put together with pipes (jack) when needed.

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-21 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Carles Perarnau wrote: Summarizing: I like it as it is (well, with a better gui), you prefer it different? perfect, it's your oppinion. By no means I'm going to try to impose my thoughts to anyone, just share them. Yes, let's try to keep this attitude. :-) Guys,

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-20 Thread Sebastian Moors
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: Here's a stab at my answer... could use some refining: Hydrogen is music-making software tool that allows an individual musician to create, revise, and control a musical composition in real-time, even as part of a performance. It provides the musician with a

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-20 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Hi Sebastian, On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Sebastian Moors wrote: Hydrogen is a multi-platform music workbench. It's interface is streamlined and easy-to-use even for musicians which are not computer [snip] Thanks! I hope that as many people as possible share their vision with us. Maybe we

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-20 Thread Sebastian Moors
Gabriel M. Beddingfield schrieb: Hi Sebastian, On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Sebastian Moors wrote: Hydrogen is a multi-platform music workbench. It's interface is streamlined and easy-to-use even for musicians which are not computer [snip] Thanks! I hope that as many people as

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-20 Thread m.wolkst...@gmx.de
Am Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:35:24 -0500 (CDT) schrieb Gabriel M. Beddingfield gabr...@teuton.org: All: Attached is the promised feature list. If you'd like to add stuff... let me know, BUT: Now that we have all our pet features out of our system, let's hammer out a _vision_ for what we

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-20 Thread Carles Perarnau
Hi there, My humble opinion is that it should remain as a drum machine. Obviously a very powerful drum machine and so, but nothing more, nothing less. My view is to stick with the UNIX philosophy: a set of simple tools which do just what they're intended to, and then are put together with pipes

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-20 Thread Ishfaq
As a user I agree with Carles: My humble opinion is that it should remain as a drum machine I think it would be best, if you guys are really up for it, to make *additional *machines that can all be linked. So make a sampler with a midi piano roll, but do it as a separate entity that can be

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-20 Thread m.wolkst...@gmx.de
Am Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:11:24 +0200 schrieb Carles Perarnau pedroarna...@gmail.com: Hi there, My humble opinion is that it should remain as a drum machine. Obviously a very powerful drum machine and so, but nothing more, nothing less. My view is to stick with the UNIX philosophy: a set of

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-20 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Hi guys, On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Carles Perarnau wrote: My view is to stick with the UNIX philosophy: a set of simple tools which do just what they're intended to, and then are put together with pipes (jack) when needed. I've actually been a little torn on this issue... whether to go in a

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-19 Thread Dave Allan
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: All: Attached is the promised feature list. If you'd like to add stuff... let me know, BUT: Now that we have all our pet features out of our system, let's hammer out a _vision_ for what we want in the future. (...as Alexandre wisely advised.) A

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-19 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
Hi Dave, On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Dave Allan wrote: My vision for Hydrogen is very simple, and it does most of what I need right now: I want to be able to drive Hydrogen from a set of electronic triggers, and I want to model the sounds that come from an acoustic kit as accurately as possible.

Re: [Hydrogen-devel] Vision and the Future Feature List

2009-10-19 Thread Dave Allan
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: Hi Dave, On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Dave Allan wrote: My vision for Hydrogen is very simple, and it does most of what I need right now: I want to be able to drive Hydrogen from a set of electronic triggers, and I want to model the sounds that come from an acoustic