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| - | ======Hydrogen====== | ||
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| - | [[http://www.hydrogen-music.org|Hydrogen]] is a drum machine for your computer with all the features of a traditional drum machine and probably quite a few more. | ||
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| - | ===== Strengths [Weaknesses] ===== | ||
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| - | **Familiar** | ||
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| - | If you have used classic hardware drum machines, or any software based on that model, you will have no trouble settling into Hydrogen. | ||
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| - | **Intuitive** | ||
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| - | Even if you have never used a drum machine, Hydrogen's design is simple and intuitive, but the application itself is powerful and robust. | ||
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| - | **MIDI** | ||
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| - | Hydrogen is a MIDI instrument, so you can use it with other musical tools via JACK. | ||
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| - | ===== Weaknesses [Strengths] ===== | ||
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| - | **Just Drums** | ||
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| - | Hydrogen is a drum machine, not a general-purpose sequencer, and certainly not a DAW. If you like the way Hydrogen works and want it for general music-making, see [[lmms|LMMS]]. | ||
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| - | =====Install===== | ||
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| - | Install Hydrogen from [[http://slackbuilds.org]] or [[http://studioware.org]]. | ||
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| - | =====Usage===== | ||
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| - | Hydrogen is intuitive whether or not you have ever used a hardware drum machine. The setup is common for software drum sequencing. Starting from the bottom, the drum sequencer itself is located in the bottom left. It is a "piano roll" style sequencer with the names of the drums in the current kit listed vertically, and each beat in a measure on the horizontal axis. Whatever you sequence in this panel becomes a **pattern**. You can have, for all practical purposes, as many patterns as you like. | ||
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| - | On the bottom right are instrument controls and your kit library. | ||
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| - | Across the top is the pattern editor, where you sequence which drum pattern is played throughout the course of your song. | ||
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| - | ===== Drum Kits ===== | ||
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| - | Hydrogen drumkits are tar archives containing drum samples and a descriptive XML document. They are relatively trivial to make. The Hydrogen website hosts [[http://hydrogen.popez.org/hcms/node/16|extra drum kits]]. In addition to those, Slackermedia has created and released [[http://slackermedia.info/sprints/multimediaSprint_v2/|99 drum kits]] for free. The script written by Slackermedia to create kits is open source and is available at [[https://gitlab.com/genhydro/genhydro]]. | ||
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| - | Install new drum kits in the **Instruments** menu → **Import Library**. | ||
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| - | **See Also** \\ | ||
| - | Ardour \\ | ||
| - | Qtractor \\ | ||
| - | Muse \\ | ||
| - | Rosegarden \\ | ||
| - | LMMS \\ | ||
| - | Milkytracker \\ | ||
| - | Schism Tracker | ||
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| - | =====Install===== | ||
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