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• General
• Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 3.
• Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats.
• Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.
• Sequencer and mixer
• Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns that can be chained into a song!
• Up to 64 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.
• 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
• Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
• Ability to import/export song files.
• Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.
• Multiple patterns playing at once.
• Other
• JACK, ALSA, PortAudio and OSS audio drivers.
• ALSA MIDI and PortMidi input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
• Import/export of drumkits.
• Export song to wav file.
• Export song to midi file.

• Ardour (another Linux DAW) supports import of Hydrogen files directly...n even some other softwares are implimenting support to its song format...
• There are plenty of drumkits and drumloops available all for FREE in the Hydrogen community.
• Support for LADSPA plugins, that let you add more effects for your beats!
• Its cross platform, so you dont have to bother about losing your audio data when you switch between operating systems(i found this point really useful!)
• Really lightweight, so you can happily work on Hydrogen and other music making software simultaneously!
• Best of all: Its completely FREE!

This is how HYDROGEN looks

sudo apt-get install hydrogen

sudo apt-get install hydrogen-drumkits

Here are a few tips that might help you.

1)As per the Hydrogens interface, basically every beat(song) you make in it comprises of “Patterns”.

2)The pattern editor is where you can edit each individual pattern.

3)The song editor is where you can arrange your patterns...(which comes when and along with which others!)

4)The mixer is where you control the volume(of both:the individual instruments and the master volume)

5)The Bar Below with the buttons: is the main control bar..here you can set the tempo, and mode(which one to play?either the individual pattern or the whole song itself...)and a couple more features...

6)You can toggle the visibility of the various windows inside from the View menu.

and now you have to place both the patterns in the song editor as:same principle again:clicking on the boxes toggles btw. The blue box means that that pattern will be playin during that time in the song....