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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Okay, so you’ve decided that you want to record a song from your home. You’ve also decided, like the rest of us cheapos, that you are going to use freeware. If you haven’t yet decided, I recommend you use Ubuntu Studio (for why see here). Ubuntu Studio is armed with these great programs: the Best [...]
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 [...]
