Hydrogen-music.org - Advanced Drum Machine

In the ever-growing list of open source developments, what’s the newest update? Linux has officially gone musical. Hydrogen Music is an advanced drum machine developed specifically for GNU/ Linux. The program is easy-to-use and fluid, and songs can be recorded in the most popular and standard formats for personal computers and macs- .wav, .au, and .aiff. The sequencer and mixer also has everything you could look for, including an unlimited number of patterns, thirty-two instrument tracks, multi-layer support, and import-export capabilities. Finally, the site links to a handful of free drum kit websites, so you can be sure to be playing in no time.

“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 brings the best of open source to advanced drum machines- constant updates, improvements, and collaboration, bound up nicely in a completely free package. Plus, it is very simple to use.

Hydrogen still has a little way to go before it can compete with the sleekness of more commercial drum machines that will appeal to a more mainstream audience- but it is on its way.