# Hydrogen        Drum machine

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux, Mac and Windows.
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.
 * Playlist with scripting support
 * Advanced tab-tempo
 * Director Window with a visual metronome and song position tags
 * Timeline with variable tempo
 * Import/Export single patterns
 * Midi-Learn functionality for many gui elements
 * Multiple patterns playing at once.
 * Ability to import/export song files.
 * Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.


Other
 
* JACK, ALSA, PortAudio and OSS audio drivers.
* ALSA MIDI and PortMidi input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
* Import/export of drumkits.
* Export song to wav, aiff, flac or file.
* Export song to midi file.
* Export song to LilyPond format.

Installation:
	See the INSTALL.txt file.

HomePage

http://www.hydrogen-music.org


Happy drumming!  :^)
