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) [...]
I only just discovered that you can have multiple outputs from Hydrogen instead of using a simple stereo output. This means that in Ardour, you can have a different track for each drum, i.e. separate tracks for the snare, and kick drum. You might be asking: ¨What on earth is the point of that?!¨ Well… [...]
Hey fellow Hydrogen users, I have constructed a Hydrogen drumkit from recordings of my own Tama Superstar Fusion kit with Zildjian ZXT Titanium Rock cymbals. Below are links to both the hydrogen kit and a short MP3 demo which allows you to hear what the kit sounds like. Drumkit: Brian_Tama_Superstar Demo: Brian_Tama_Superstar_DEMO The above pictures [...]
Hydrogen is fantastic, but only when powered with the right drumkits. Being a drummer, I know a few things about good sounding drumkits. Hydrogen has posted a collection of a few of their “official” drumkits. These can be found here. My personal favourite is the Yamaha Vintage Kit. Note for Ubuntu Studio users it is [...]
