HYDROGEN(07)                     User Commands                    HYDROGEN(07)

NAME
       hydrogen - a simple drum machine/step sequencer.

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

DESCRIPTION
       Hydrogen 1.2.4 [http://www.hydrogen-music.org].  Copyright 2002-2008
       Alessandro Cominu, Copyright 2008-2024 The hydrogen development team.

       Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux.  It's main goal is
       to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum
       programming.

       Hydrogen comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and
       you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the
       file COPYING for details.

OPTIONS
       -P, --data PATH - Use an alternate system data path

       -d, --driver AUDIODRIVER - Use the selected audio driver (jack, alsa,
              oss)

       -s, --song FILE - Load a song (*.h2song) at startup

       -p, --playlist FILE - Load a playlist (*.h2playlist) at startup

       -k, --kit drumkit_name - Load a drumkit at startup

       -i, --install FILE - install a drumkit (*.h2drumkit)

       -O, --osc-port - Use custom OSC port

       -n, --nosplash - Hide splash screen

       -V[Level], --verbose[=Level] - Print a lot of debugging info

              Level, if present, may be None, Error, Warning, Info, Debug or
              0xHHHH

       -L, --log-file - Use custom log file

       -T, --log-timestamps - Add timestamps to all log messages

       -v, --version - Show version info

       -h, --help - Show this help message

FILES
       hydrogen.conf

       Defaults and startup settings for Hydrogen.

       data/*

       Can contains user's data such as drumkits, patterns, playlists, songs,
       ...

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

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.

Hydrogen 1.2.4                   December 2024                    HYDROGEN(07)