HYDROGEN(9)

📦 version 1.2.2, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing

🌸 HYDROGEN — like, the manual page, bestie 🌸

okay so you opened man hydrogen and landed in HYDROGEN(9), section 9, User Commands. say hi to your new emotional support drum machine 💖

✨ NAME ✨

hydrogen — a simple drum machine/step sequencer. that's it, that's the girl. 🥁

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

hydrogen [-v] [-h] -s file

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so. Hydrogen 1.2.2 lives at [http://www.hydrogen-music.org] and she's been around. Copyright 2002-2008 Alessandro Cominu, Copyright 2008-2023 The hydrogen development team. legacy, honestly. 👑

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. her main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming. like, pro-level but you don't have to be a wizard. the way that she just does that?? iconic.

🚨 Hydrogen comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. none. zero. nada. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details. read it, bestie, fr fr.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -P, --data PATH — use an alternate system data path. vibes, but relocated. 🦋
  • -d, --driver AUDIODRIVER — use the selected audio driver (jack, alsa, oss). pick your fighter.
  • -s, --song FILE — load a song (*.h2song) at startup. main character energy immediately.
  • -p, --playlist FILE — load a playlist (*.h2playlist) at startup. queue it up. 🎀
  • -k, --kit drumkit_name — load a drumkit at startup.
  • -i, --install FILE — install a drumkit (*.h2drumkit). new kit drop, slay. 💅
  • -n, --nosplash — hide the splash screen. skip the intro, get to the content.
  • -V[Level], --verbose[=Level] — print a lot of debugging info. so much tea, spilled.

Level, if present, may be None, Error, Warning, Info, Debug or 0xHHHH. yes, that last one is a real format, don't @ me.

  • -v, --version — show version info.
  • -h, --help — show this help message. the classic. the moment. 🫶

✨ FILES ✨

  • hydrogen.conf

Defaults and startup settings for Hydrogen. her little diary of preferences. 💜

  • data/*

Can contains user's data such as drumkits, patterns, playlists, songs, ... (yes, "can contains", she said what she said, we respect the original wording 🌈)

✨ ENVIRONMENT ✨

  • LADSPA_PATH

Path to LADSPA plugins.

✨ BUGS & FEATURES REQUEST ✨

If you find any bug or if you would like to propose a new feature, please report it to https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues

no gatekeeping bugs in this house. tell them. they wanna know. 🐛✨

✨ AUTHORS ✨

The hydrogen development team. See complete list at Hydrogen's "About" Dialog. You can contact them at <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>.

Subscription to the mailing list can be done here :

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel

✨ MISC ✨

This manual page was written by Olivier Humbert <trebmuh@tuxfamily.org> as a part of the Hydrogen project. shoutout, respect, thank you for your service 🫡💖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one's Hydrogen 1.2.2, dated September 2023, filed under HYDROGEN(9) in User Commands. go make some beats, you absolute legend 💅🥁✨

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