Get your beat on with the Hydrogen drum machine
All too often the musically inclined seem to feel a bit left out of the Linux, open source community. At least that was the way for a long time. And then came along a few new tools and a few recording-specific distributions (such as 64 Studio and Linux Multimedia Studio) and the open source music world was turned on its head. Now you see tools for recording, editing, sampling, and more. With Linux (and open source) you can create an entire symphony of music, without ever touching a real instrument (although the real thing is certainly preferred).
One of the tools you will want to play around with is the Hydrogen Drum Machine. The goal of Hydrogen is to offer users a professional, yet easy to use, tool to allow the creation of drum tracks for recording purposes. With this tool, and a little rhythm, you can have a drum track created in minutes. In this tutorial I will show you how to install Hydrogen and then begin using it to get your first drum track up and running.
All too often the musically inclined seem to feel a bit left out of the Linux, open source community. At least that was the way for a long time. And then came along a few new tools and a few recording-specific distributions (such as 64 Studio and Linux Multimedia Studio) and the open source music world was turned on its head. Now you see tools for recording, editing, sampling, and more. With Linux (and open source) you can create an entire symphony of music, without ever touching a real instrument (although the real thing is certainly preferred).
One of the tools you will want to play around with is the Hydrogen Drum Machine. The goal of Hydrogen is to offer users a professional, yet easy to use, tool to allow the creation of drum tracks for recording purposes. With this tool, and a little rhythm, you can have a drum track created in minutes. In this tutorial I will show you how to install Hydrogen and then begin using it to get your first drum track up and running.
