Okay, by now you should have a drum track recorded in Ardour as the first step for your recording project. If not, check out Audio Recording in Ubuntu Studio - Part 2: Recording a Hydrogen Drumbeat. The drum track really is the backbone to your recording because it is often filled with the most emotion [...]
How do you know the stage is level?
…the drummer is drooling out of both sides of his mouth.
Yeah, yeah… I’ve heard them all. I know as a non-drummer it is very difficult to think like a drummer. Especially when most non-drummers reckon that drummers don’t have the capability of thinking much :). However, to make [...]
Okay, so you’ve planned your recording project like I told you to do in Audio Recording in Ubuntu Studio - Part 1: Plan your Project. You now want to create a Hydrogen drumbeat as the backbone to your track.
To begin, start up JACK and then Hydrogen. You can begin messing around with beats and patterns [...]
This post aims to cover the basics around the Hydrogen Drum Machine interface and hopefully get a newbie feeling comfortable with the setup. Firstly, start up JACK and then Hydrogen. Once in Hydrogen, you want to select a drumkit which will suit your song the best. You can do this by opening the View menu [...]
U2’s song, Sunday Bloody Sunday has quite a complicated drumbeat, so I decided to make a Hydrogen song out of it. I have done this for three reasons:
So that drummers can look at the Hydrogen drumbeat patterns and work out how to play it.
So that guitarists can play along to a decent drumbeat without getting [...]
