Add the hydra plugin to strudel instances

[reckter]

Currently there is no way to have hydra be influenced by the strudel audio output.

With importing the hydra plugin into strudel, you now can!

There are some downsides of course, foremost, that you have to write hydra code in strudel :/
And you kinda use hydra in strudel to, which probably has some more limitations.

[TodePond]

this is an interesting one. I wonder what people think about hydra-ing in strudel

I wonder... is there a way we could sensibly feed strudel into the hydra editors themselves?

cc @felixroos

[felixroos]

it seems a bit redundant to load hydra 2 times, maybe we can let hydra and strudel talk more directly? but not completely sure how. there is also this hydra plugin by @atfornes : https://github.com/atfornes/Hydra-strudel-extension .
There might also we a way to share patterns from strudel to hydra over the window..
Also, I'm not sure if it's possible rn to use the strudel audio/fft to control hydra

[munshkr]

it seems a bit redundant to load hydra 2 times, maybe we can let hydra and strudel talk more directly?

That would be ideal!

Maybe we just need to do what initHydra does, but using the same Hydra package flok bundles + the same Hydra canvas (in case there's already an Hydra canvas in the session?)

[reckter]

I want to look into all of what you said over christmas if I can,
In the ideal world, I wouldn't need to write hydra in a strudel pane, and somehow share patterns.

I think my first goals would be:

• share patterns across hydra / strudel, which already would enable the visuals to be timing linked to the beat, which unlucks a lot!
• get the strudel canvas to be passed to hydra (in s0, like feedStrudel:true, does or even in an extra variable, if easy

[reckter]

#309 contains the P / H function from initHydra and the mentioned plugins.
Needed some figuring out how to parse, and ended in a mixture of the two. But it works now :D

We can close this and move discusion there, the canvas is missing from that so far though.