Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

Features

General

• Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 4.
• Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in.wav,.au and.aiff formats.
• Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.

Sequencer and mixer

• Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
• Up to 192 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.
• Unlimited instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
• Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
• Sample Editor, with basic cut and loop functions.
• Time-stretch and pitch functions via rubberband cli. Require the rubberband-cli package.
• Play-lists with scripting function.
• Advanced tab-tempo.
• Director Window with a visual metronome and song position tags.
• Time-line with variable tempo.
• Single and stacked pattern mode.
• Export/Import single patterns into song projects.
• Midi learning via Shift+MouseClick on many gui-cotrollers combined with a midi settings editor.
• Ability to import/export song files.
• Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.
• Multiple patterns playing at once.