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I've added milestones to the 'Tickets' section of the project, along with tickets for each milestone. The tickets lay out the major features to be added to the application to make it alpha release ready.

I'm steadily adding features to the codebase. There are now two screens, the main song (sequence) editor, and the pattern editor, both of which currently have minimal editing capabilities. Two more screens are planned, a mixer and an instrument/kit editor.

TigerBeats - an open source drum machine for the Android platform. Being a programmer, a musician, and an open source supporter, I've started work on this project to fulfill a personal need in all three areas.

As an amateur musician, I've frequently used the wonderful Hydrogen advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux ( http://www.hydrogen-music.org/ ) to create drum parts to practice against or to import into the Ardour ( http://www.ardour.org/ ) digital audio workstation to record additional parts. When I got an Android phone, an HTC Incredible, I started thinking it would be nice to have something like Hydrogen on my phone so I could grab my acoustic guitar and practice anywhere. ... read more