Hi everyone,

i'm happy to announce the release of Hydrogen 0.9.7.

Among tons of bug fixes and smaller improvements the following new
features are included:

- The color of the SongEditors squares is now configurable
- Added support for midi cymbal choking
- Added support for midi hihat pressure control
- Added hihat pressure groups
- Added basic non session manager support
- Added instrument components
- Basic lilypond export
- New windows cross compilation script
- Support for soundlibrary images
- Configurable sample selection algorithm
- Support for soundlibraries with images
- New midi action:
- SELECT_PREV_PATTERN_RELATIVE

Hi all

The Hydrogen team is happy to announce the '14 ways to contribute to Hydrogen' campaign !

With this 'campaign' we are hoping to get some motivated people on board

Experienced programmers are of course very welcome, but we also want to make it as easy as possible for _anyone_ to get involved in the project

For this purpose we created the '14 ways to contribute to Hydrogen' page

There you can find -surprise, surprise- 14 different ways you can contribute to Hydrogen

In other words : you just ran out of excuses why you cant contribute !  ;-)

So we hope to welcome you to the team very soon !! 

The Hydrogen team

A new version of hydrogen, "0.9.6-beta3", was just released . The release contains a range of bugfixes and a small set of new features.

Hi all, we just officially closed the Drumkit Contest !

We received 10 drumkits, and some of them are ... euh … let's say 'surprising' ;-)

For those that submitted a drumkit : good luck !

Some time ago there was a small poll on the Hydrogen site asking the Hydrogen users (aka 'you' ;-) what feature you wanted more than anything else.

Your answer was clear : "more and better drum kits".

We promised to do something about this, and here it is : the 'Hydrogen Spring Drum Kit Contest'

The goal of this fun contest is simple: with your help we hope to expand Hydrogen's sound library with some great new drum kits.

And since this is a contest there are some really neat prizes to win!