Hydrogen for MAC

Hydrogen GNU/Linux's advanced drum machine. Its primary goal is to provide professional, yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

Features:

General

• QT 4 is a very user-friendly, modular, quick, and intuitive graphical interface.
• Stereo audio engine that uses samples to generate stereo sound. Imports sound samples in.wav and.au formats.
• Support for samples in compressed FLAC files

• A pattern-based sequencer that allows you to create unlimited numbers of patterns and can even chain them together into a song.
• Maximum 192 ticks per design with an individual level per event, and variable length.
• Unlimited instrument tracks with volume, solo, solo, and pan capabilities.
• Multi-layer support for instruments (upto 16 samples per instrument).
• Sample Editor with basic cut- and loop functions. (NEW)
• Rubberband cli provides pitch and time-stretch functions. You will need the rubberband-cli package. (NEW)
• Play-lists that can be scripted. (NEW)
• Advanced tab-tempo (NEW)
• Director Window with a visual metronome, song position tags, and a visual metronome (NEW)
• Time-line with variable pace. (NEW)
• Both single and stacked pattern modes are available. (NEW)
• Export/Import single patterns into song projects. (NEW)
• Midi learning via Shift+MouseClick for many gui-cotrollers, combined with a setting editor. (NEW)
• Ability to import/export songs files
• Unique human velocity, human pitch, and swing functions
• Multiple patterns can be played at once

• JACK, ALSA and PortAudio are audio drivers for OSS, JACK, ALSA and PortAudio.
• ALSA MIDI, PortMidi input with assignable midi in channel (1..16; ALL).
• Drumkit import/export
• Export song to wav or flac.
• Export song to midi.

Version 0.9.6 (beta1):

First beta of the upcoming 0.9.6 release.

• Jack midi support
• Jack session support
• Undo
• tab-based interface (optimized for netbooks)