Artsy Tuesday: Hydrogen - Advanced Drum Machine

Tuesday, May 13. 2008

Posted by Chris Tyler in Artsy Tuesday at 00:01 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Artsy Tuesday: Hydrogen - Advanced Drum Machine

The Fedora community includes artists of all stripes, including (I'm told, but haven't yet heard) some great musicians. It figures that Fedora would have some good music tools.

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine. It has a Qt-based MDI-style interface, with mixer, song editor, pattern editor, drumkit manager, and instrument editor subwindows. Included drumkits (sample sets) include GeneralMIDI (emulating a Roland XV-5080) and Roland TR-808. Although I'm not a musician, the interface is straightforward enough that I was able to begin experimenting quickly, starting with the included demo files.

So whether your garage band drummer is on vacation, you've always wanted to express your rhythmic side (or you've just got to have have More Cowbell!), or you're looking for a serious drum machine, Hydrogen is worth a look.

Note: On my F8 system, I was unable to get Hydrogen to work with PulseAudio and had to stop the pulseaudio daemon (killall pulseaudio) before starting Hydrogen.

Installing from the command line: yum install hydrogen
Installing using the graphical installer: Not available in the Browse view; use the Search or List view to install hydrogen
Menu location after installation: Applications > Sound & Video > Hydrogen Drum Machine
Command: /usr/bin/hydrogen
Upstream website: http://www.hydrogen-music.org/

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The more "professional" audio applications all want the jack daemon (jackd). pulseaudio can run as a jackd client and jackd takes over the alsa hardware devices.

I suggest you might have a look at jackd and qjackctl.

#1 Harald Hoyer (Homepage) on 2008-06-24 14:20 (Reply)

c'est cool

#2 jackie (Homepage) on 2009-02-07 17:43 (Reply)

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