New features in Hydrogen 1.0

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