Ease of Use: This is so easy to use it's difficult to see how you could go wrong: pattern based sequencers are much of a muchness when it comes to the actual pattern/song creation, and this one is good and intuitive. Again I am running the application with no MIDI hardware, just using it as it comes with the preinstalled GMKit. A nicely laid out GUI with everything right there where you need it makes Hydrogen a pleasure to use, but that's really the least of it with this app. The main point for me is that i knew exactly what i wanted to achieve with this app before i even downloaded it and i was not disappointed: it's nice when that happens. The Hydrogen team give support on their site forum and other resources (user manual, additional drumkits etc) are available on the main site.
Functionality: The facilities most of the free drum sequencers i have tested lack are present in Hydrogen. The ability to change the time signature from 4/4 to 3/4 and the facilty to export each drum as a *.wav file are vital if a freeware app of this type is to stand any chance against my commercial ware: granted it is not imperative that a drum sequencer exports as wav (or other file types), but it saves a great deal of hassle if you are multitracking.
The facility to change the parameters of each drum in the instrument rack is a great feature: this allows the user to adjust the sound and duration of any instrument to create a new instrument. The onboard mixer is handy and I like the way each beat can be divided into smaller instances using the resolution function. I like everything about this application.
Performance: Very light on system resources and ultra stable. Full featured. Excellent freeware.
With a little patience and experimentation, pretty much anyone could be making music or beats with these three applications in a relatively short space of time. To sum up, you don't need a doctorate in ST transform and Quantile normalization to make music with any of these superb free apps, so go to it and enjoy.
Functionality: The facilities most of the free drum sequencers i have tested lack are present in Hydrogen. The ability to change the time signature from 4/4 to 3/4 and the facilty to export each drum as a *.wav file are vital if a freeware app of this type is to stand any chance against my commercial ware: granted it is not imperative that a drum sequencer exports as wav (or other file types), but it saves a great deal of hassle if you are multitracking.
The facility to change the parameters of each drum in the instrument rack is a great feature: this allows the user to adjust the sound and duration of any instrument to create a new instrument. The onboard mixer is handy and I like the way each beat can be divided into smaller instances using the resolution function. I like everything about this application.
Performance: Very light on system resources and ultra stable. Full featured. Excellent freeware.
With a little patience and experimentation, pretty much anyone could be making music or beats with these three applications in a relatively short space of time. To sum up, you don't need a doctorate in ST transform and Quantile normalization to make music with any of these superb free apps, so go to it and enjoy.
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