New features in Hydrogen 1.0 - hydrogen-music/hydrogen GitHub Wiki
The development of Hydrogen 1.0 has started the 6th of November 2016.
NEW FEATURES
New default kit
Hydrogen switched from GMkit to the new GMRockKit as a default drumkit.
See:
- https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/548
- https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/commit/07b7c6a9f7854fb2f1d93100e0e3e0f904ffa1f0
Support for QT5
Hydrogen uses now QT5 by default.
See:
- https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/409
- (windows specific) https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/430
Probability note property
Each note has now a probability property (in addition to velocity, lead/lag etc.) which can be manipulated via the note properties editor. The property offers way to define that a note is not played always, but with a certain probability.
See: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/358
Menu redesign
Improvements to the menu organisation.
See: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/330
Full screen mode
You can now view Hydrogen in Full screen mode (via the View menu).
See: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/commit/045e1329ea109983d3f4865cb699b9bea33e4d7b
SVG Icon
Hydrogen installs now an SVG icon (on non-windows, non-mac systems) to /usr/share/pixmaps.
See: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/commit/b5b9cb902e84917753899eb3d10d70b6df82dc24
Added Rename function to instrument context menu
See: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/438
Velocity automation
See: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/356
Playback track
See:
- https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/381
- https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/commit/fb64b7f7bef11264a9f5970aaa66e8e9e4d691a3
- https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/509
OSC support
All midi actions are now also available for OSC. See https://github.com/mauser/HydrogenOSCPresets for some client examples..
MIDI feedback support
Some midi actions are now able to provide midi feedback. See https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/265
Smaller features and improvements
- Open window indicators
- Additional LADSPA search path: ~.hydrogen/data/plugins
- removes h2synth - see https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/commit/0f7e4996fdc99bfdb27d543d42a1bfb9ebec317e and https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/commit/2eaa8194828e74c0633508279d0a6251e2e45f0d
- the Tag editor / director has been reworked and a few bugs have been fixed
- the playlists can now be saved with a relative PATH, an option (between relative and full path) is available ine the preference window) - see https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/362
Updates/fixes
- Crashes when dragging an instrument - see: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/478
- Crashes when using rubberband - see: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/474
- Fix for the triplet position - see: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/403, https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/434, and https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/366
- Fix for the MIDI note number - see: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/307, https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/450, and https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/484
- NSM fix for session with no-ASCII characters - see: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/420
- NetBSD fix - see: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/444
- Use variable velocity when playing sample when clicking on instrument list - see: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/360
- Small issues with exporting to WAV as separate tracks - see: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/462
- Fixes for the Export dialog - https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/465, and https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/468
- a part of the screen is blacked when starting hydrogen - see: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/297
- MacOS : use CoreMIDI driver to send outcoming MIDI messages - see : https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/488
- instrument volume not saved - see: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/337
GUI translations
translations updates
- French (Olivier "trebmuh" Humbert),
- Spanish (Daryl Hanlon),
- Serbian (Jay Alexander Fleming),
- German (theGreatWhiteShark),
- Greek (nikoss).
new translations
- Ukrainian (Олександр "lxlalexlxl" Пилипчук)
- Portuguese from Brazil (Heitor da Rocha)
misc
- fixes a bug which was leaving apart the Canadian translation
- allow more space for translated strings - see: https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/431, https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/pull/446, and https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues/397