Hi from New Zealand

[Godfreelovejoy]

I'm currently trying to get to know Ubuntu Studio.I found LMMS to be a bit frustrating but have used Hydrogen drum program to write some tracks and find it great.Is there a way I can use LMMS sounds in the Hydrogen drum kit,Hydrogen seems to have just one drum kit and it's not as good as some of the sounds in LMMS, is it possible to use LMMS drum sounds in Hydrogen.The drum writing program itself is great.It would be better if I could access the LMMS drum sounds to use.I found LMMS almost infact completely impossible to write a drum track onto,I could only cut and paste existing sound patches.I'm sure it can do more but it's beyond me at this stage.A wee help suggestion for the many people finding Jack hard to work with,I was having trouble until I right clicked on all the boxes in Jack and scrolled down to preset and default.After setting everything to default Jack behave's itself perfectly.I have a midi cable connecting to an old Yamaha Piano,which triggers the sounds from Subfx,I will be adding a guitar midi pickup soon and am interested to see how that goes.I'm currently trying to write my 20 original songs to a standard that can be published.I think it's possible with Ubuntu,I just need to learn more about it.

[laba170]

If you want more hydrogen drum kits, you can type this in a terminal:

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sudo apt-get install hydrogen-drumkits

And welcome!

[Godfreelovejoy]

Thanks,please excuse my lack of computer skills,I don't go online with Ubuntu,I'm browsing in Puppy 4.3,So this is a package I get off the net???,and will hopefully be able to flashdrive it over to the other computer.?.I'm a late starter and a slow learner when it comes to computers.I'm using an old 933 meghrts computer to run Ubuntu and I'm feeding via a line in to a 2gigahrts Compaq Pressario to record in with Audacity,I have found,Ubuntu doesn't play the tracks I have recorded very well,just drums and guitar so far,but I have dual boots on both computers and have tinyxp on the 933,it plays the tracks fine??,so it's a bit of a juggling act still for me and I'm still trying to figure how to engineer recording.I record with XP and I'm wondering if thats why Ubuntu doesn't like playing it??I intend to build up the tracks by bringing the recording back to the 933 each time and playing them while adding another instrument.I'm sure there's a better way but as I say I'm a beginner.

[MIJ-VI]

You'll have to connect your Ubuntu machine to the Internet in order to follow laba170's instructions.

Learning more about how Ubuntu works would make audio recording easier to learn too:

http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=73

And FWIW, here's a thread on Ubuntu Studio 9.10:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=599271

[Godfreelovejoy]

Thanks for the better advice,I tried to load laba170's command into a terminal and my system doesn't work properly anymore,I had drums and synth working well together and now they won't again,thanks laba170!!!Yes there is a lot of learning to do,and when giving advice laba 170 might want to be a little more explicit and not assume we are all of the same skill level.I have gone backwards since taking advice from this site,I hope I can get back to where I was without having to do a complete reinstall!!!What is it that clashes with subfx or jack and Hydrogen,I had this problem to start with and eventualy fixed it,only to have laba170's suggestion stuff me up.I had a concept that was going to enable me to multi track enough to put a song together.Now that is gone and unless I can get Hydrogen and jack talking to each other again I'm stuffed.If I start Hydrogen first then bring up jack and subfx the synth sounds don't connect,If I start jack first when I try to bring up Hydrogen it seizes up and I have to power of just to start again,not good for it!!If I sound a little pissed off, it's because I am,I had a friend who's helped me with my computing spend a lot of time with me trying to get it all going.And now I'm back to square one,bl;oody hell.

[Pablo]

Hi Godfreelovejoy, welcome.

We are a community of linuxmusicians and some try their best to help. laba1970 gave you a very good hint, he just didn't know that you don't have internet connection. However, that command is not evil, it doesn't mess up your system. It just gives an error because apt-get can't find that package. Don't blame him, please.

Yes, you can get that package from the internet and take it to the other computer from a flashdrive. Right button, install with GDebi. That package doesn't have dependencies so it is OK doing it so. You can get it from here:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/hydrogen-drumkits

Another good place to start

http://wiki.linuxmusicians.com/doku.php ... dadd5e12e2

Cheers! Pablo

[Chipfryer]

Hi NZ
Nice to have you aboard.

[Godfreelovejoy]

I now have the drum kits on CD and I have put them on to my flash drive.I thought I would be able to drag and drop them in to the Hydrogen drumkit manager window,but it didn't work,I have a terminal command to load the kits with,it involves deleting the current package,I have spent hours writing the drum tracks in there,I hope it doesn't delete the tracks???Yes I was a bit quick to blame Laba170,but I did explain I'm a beginner.Recording into Audacity is still working fine but practising now requires me to run both computers,previously I was able to do it on the one.I am a guitarist singer song writer,not a key board player,so I'm having to learn the key board parts one song at a time.I write fairly busy songs with lots of chords,I'm really slow on a key board.I'm sure I'm in the right place to get good advice,it just seems overwhelming when everybody has a different opinion of how to do it,the terminal command I was given is,,sudo nautilus,,,/usr/share/hydrogen/data .Then I drag and drop the kit into nautilus???after deleting the folder drumkits???I think I will get help with this,I'm not familiar with terminal commands,my first attempt was a disaster!!

[softwareoutsourcing]

Hi there
Nice to meet all

[Pablo]

Hi,

Don't panic! In Linux and generally speaking, there are many ways to achieve the same goals. In addition, we are few users of GNU/Linux and free software and ourselves are learning. At the same time, programs are in a never-ending evolution and what is true today maybe it is not so true tomorrow, or what can be done in a difficult way today, can be done very easily tomorrow. Or you can be given a hint today and then you discover a better and easier way tomorrow. In this case, yourself can help others.

This is the price you have to pay for your free tools (freedom and price). It is good to help each other but please be patient.

Command line is not intuitive but faster when you get to know it. Graphic tools are much more intuitive but slower and not as flexible.

I will try to answer to your question in another board. This is just to say hello!

See:
http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2608

Pablo

[Godfreelovejoy]

Hi,I eventually found a way to get the drumkit package loaded and I now have the full set.The copy I was using was taken of another Linux operating system,one that comes with the full package as standard issue,Producer Pup I think,and my friend had extracted the file from Producer Pup,we had a lot of permission problems but eventually told it to allow everybody and it loaded fine??I had already written all my songs drum tracks on the GMkit,but I have started re-doing them with the likes of Hip Hop 1 and 2.Do others post examples of their work,I was thinking of posting a drum track just to get some feed back,

[Chipfryer]

Hi NZ from NJ.
Welcome

[Pablo]

Do others post examples of their work,I was thinking of posting a drum track just to get some feed back,

http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewforum.php?f=9