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 [...]
This post explains how to create a Hydrogen drumkit without editing any code i.e. a point-and-click method. This may sound complicated but it is actually really easy. So when you decide to do this, simply refer back to this post and follow the steps. Here we go: Open Hydrogen (No-brainer), and make sure the Instrument [...]
This post explains how to make realistic sounding drum rolls with a drum machine. In order to sound like a drummer, you need to think like one. Firstly, I need to define, for those non-drummers, that there are two main types of rolls: The single-stroke roll: The hand pattern is Right (R), Left (L), Right, [...]
I’m sure many of you that use hydrogen or play drums, have made several beats which just lack spunk. So, in this post, I’m going to show you a very simple way of turning your bland beats into slightly funkier ones. Here is an .MP3 of a simple beat which is currently unpimped: Plain.mp3 (415kB) [...]
