hydrogen-music/hydrogen

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The advanced drum machine for Linux, macOS, and Windows

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What you can do

First-class MIDI support
Highly customizable
Stable and performant
Loads of drumkits to choose from

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Hydrogen

The advanced drum machine for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Features

First-class MIDI support
Highly customizable
Stable and performant
Loads of drumkits to choose from
In-depth control of instrument, sample, and note properties
High quality time-stretching and pitch shifting
Automate it using MIDI or OSC API

Hydrogen is both a drum sequencer for pattern-based programming and a drum synth. Its simple yet feature-rich design makes it a versatile companion, be it for quick practice at home, professional usage as fully-fledged drum machine in your studio, or drum looper on steroids for your live performance.

Download

Windows (64bit) (>=Vista)
macOS (>=10.14)
Linux

or check you distribution's repo

Binaries for older OS versions can be found in the Download section of our homepage.

Building

If your particular OS is not supported or you want to use the latest developing version, you can build Hydrogen yourself. We provide step-by-step guides for the following platforms:

Linux
macOS
Windows

Usage

The main entry point for learning how to use Hydrogen is our manual.

Further info can be found in our FAQ and Wiki.

Contributing

You want to contribute to Hydrogen?

How about making/improving a translation? You can also check out our (ancient) How to contribute guide or get in touch with us on our mailing list.

License

Hydrogen is distributed under GPLv2+.