Hydrogen drumkit creator script V2

An improved version of the original script is ready.

What's new:
- some small bugfixes
- more options
- espeak sample generator

Hydrogen Espeak Drumkit

What happens when you combine Espeak + Hydrogen + createH2kit_V2.py + 30min of spare time ?
Click the link below and find out :-)


Hydrogen Espeak Drumkit


In a next post i'll explain a bit more how i did this and also post the new python script that creates a drumkit starting from a txt file.
Stay tuned !

Hydrogen GM espeak test kit : the drumkit that can speak

A couple of days ago Emanuel Rumpf (one of the H2 users) pointed me to the fact that it is really important to follow the GM midi mapping when you create a new drumkit, and right he is!
Since we are in the middle of the Hydrogen spring drumkit contest I updated the info in the H2 manual right away, but while doing that i noticed that there is something very weird going on with Hydrogen's 'GM kit' : is't not GM compliant  :-(

While figuring out the correct mapping i decided to create a GM compliant drumkit template, and added something extra ;-)

Hydrogen drumkit creator script

Some time ago we (the Hydrogen team) launched the first edition of the 'Hydrogen Spring Drumkit Contest'.
The goal of this contest is to encourage the Hydrogen users to contribute new drumkits.

The goal of the 'Hydrogen drumkit creator' script is to make it easier to make these drumkits.

Hydrogen Drumkit Contest launched

Today we finally launched the Hydrogen Drum Kit Contest !

It turned out to be a lot more work than expected : finding the jury members, preparing the contest page, thinking about the prizes, what license should the drum kits be released under, the disclaimer, start/stop dates ...

I'm quite curious about the response, hopefully some good kits will be submitted !
I'll be preparing 1 or 2 drum kits myself (but that's a secret) and maybe make some screencasts while doing it.

New toys !

This weekend i ran out  of excuses for not recording a song : i bought me an AT2035 mic + a Nano Patch plus volume control.

So now i have a decent mic, a Saffire LE as audio interface, my Linux DAW and the Nano Patch to control the volume of my KRK VXT6 speakers.

Hit songs are on the way ... any minute now ...   ;-)

Hydrogen pattern editor buttons

After finding out about some nifty 'new' features (not really new, i just didn't know they existed!) in Hydrogen i created some more mockups:

It still needs work, but it's getting better IMO !


And a previous version :