NAME

       hydrogen - a simple drum machine/step sequencer.

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       Hydrogen  1.1.1  [http://www.hydrogen-music.org].   Copyright 2002-2008 Alessandro Cominu,
       Copyright 2008-2021 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

       -S, --jacksessionid ID - Start a JackSessionHandler session

       -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)

       -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

       -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.