orDrumbox

The orDrumbox is a software drum machine, designed to a creative pattern based way of drum programming with automatic music composition capabilities. You can compose beats even with polyrhythms, bass line and complete songs using included drum kits with the audio sequencer functions.

• Pattern oriented: You can create songs by assembling various patterns.
• Automatic composer: You can add melodic scales and semi-random notes to make the orDrumbox compose rhythmic and melodic patterns under your control.
• Automatic sound assignations: The orDrumbox use Natural Language Processing for matching sounds to tracks and to "categorize" sounds.
• Drum Kits: You can import, create, modify and save drum kits. It's a "sound library" in one single file.
• Loops: Just import a loop wav file in your drumkit and the orDrumbox will automatically stretch loops to fit your rhythm
• Sequencer: You can assemble patterns in a song.
• Importing/Exporting: The orDrumbox generates and exports songs and individual patterns in 16 bits /44 Khz/stereo sounds CD-quality, so you can re-use them in any other sound application.

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

Features are

• Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 3.
• Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats.
• Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.
• Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
• Up to 64 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.
• 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
• Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
• Ability to import/export song files.
• Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.
• Multiple patterns playing at once.
• 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 file.
• Export song to midi file.

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LMMS

LMMS is a free cross-platform (Windows and Linux) alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. LMMS can also connect to any of your MIDI devices and allow you to perform live, all in a user-friendly and modern interface. Check out the "demos" page for an idea of what you can do with LMMS.

Features

• Song-Editor for composing songs
• A Beat+Bassline-Editor for creating beats and basslines
• An easy-to-use Piano-Roll for editing patterns and melodies
• An FX mixer with 64 FX channels and arbitrary number of effects allow unlimited mixing possibilities
• Many powerful LADSPA instrument and effect-plugins out of the box, with more available in many Linux Distributions
• Full user-defined track-based automation and computer-controlled automation sources
• Supports most free or professional VST plugins out of the box.
• Compatible with many standards such as SoundFont2, VST(i), LADSPA, GUS Patches, and MIDI
• Import of MIDI and FLP (Fruityloops Project) files

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