Hydrogen (advanced drum machine) v1.2.3 Standalone Win Mac Linux [FREE]
Free | Win Mac Linux | 81/79/84 MB
The advanced drum machine for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Hydrogen is both a drum sequencer for pattern-based programming and a drum synth. Its simple yet feature-rich design makes it a versatile companion, be it for quick practice at home, professional usage as fully-fledged drum machine in your studio, or drum looper on steroids for your live performance.
First-class MIDI support
Highly customizable
Stable and performant
Loads of drumkits to choose from
In-depth control of instrument, sample, and note properties
High quality time-stretching and pitch shifting
Automate it using MIDI or OSC API
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.
Other :
JACK, ALSA, PortAudio and OSS audio drivers.
JACK MIDI, ALSA MIDI and PortMidi input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
Import/export of drumkits.
Export song to wav, aiff, flac or ogg file.
Export song to midi file.
Export song to lilypond file.
