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New features in Hydrogen 0.9.5

Sebastian Moors edited this page Jun 24, 2013 · 1 revision

New features of hydrogen 0.9.5

Multi-Track Export

Hydrogen is now able to export each instrument to a separate track.

Sample editor

The new non-destructive sample editor allows for the quick edit of samples. It can be accessed by the "Edit layer" button in the instrument tab. A tutorial (with a german voice comment) can be viewed at youtube; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq7QUHo-hVE

Midi output

Each instrument has now a configurable midi channel and midi note. Hydrogen offers a midi output only for the alsa midi driver.

Piano-roll editor

The new piano-roll editor offers new possibilities for users which are experimenting with their own samples or are using hydrogen for more then just drum samples.

Export to wav, aiff, flac & ogg

Hydrogen 0.9.5 makes use of libsndfile to export songs to different multiple file-formats. The dependency to libflac was dropped because recent versions of libsndfile support flac as well.

Timeline

A new timeline helps to compose songs with different tempi and adds the possibility to comment on parts with the help of tags.

Time-stretching of samples

The integration of rubberband-cli provides hydrogen with the ability to stretch samples to a custom tempo. The tempo can be set with the a timeline marker or via the new tap-tempo midi action.

LADISH support

Hydrogen 0.9.5 comes with level 1 compatibility for the LADI session handler .

Director

The newly added Director widget displays the current songname, the metronome and (if used) the current tag in a seperate window. Tags can be set with the newly introduced timeline and may represent parts of a song like "refrain" or "intro". The director window is meant to be used maximized to assist a band or a single musician during play-a-long.