How To Install hydrogen on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hydrogen on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is hydrogen
hydrogen is:
Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine. It’s main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.
General features:
- Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 5.
- Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats.
- Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.
Sequencer and mixer features:
- Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
- Up to 64 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.
- 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
- Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
- Ability to import/export song files.
- Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.
- Multiple patterns playing at once.
Other features:
- JACK, ALSA, PortAudio, OSS and PulseAudio audio drivers.
- ALSA MIDI and PortMidi input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
- Import/export of drumkits.
- Export song to wav file.
- Export song to midi file. Task: ubuntustudio-audio
Package: hydrogen Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.0.0~beta2-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/sound Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Erich Eickmeyer [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 7927 Depends: libarchive13 (>= 3.0.4), libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libc6 (>= 2.29), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.10+20150825) | libjack-0.125, liblo7 (>= 0.27), libportaudio2 (>= 19+svn20101113), libportmidi0, libpulse0 (>= 0.99.1), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.2.0) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.2.0), libqt5network5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.12.2), libqt5xml5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5xmlpatterns5 (>= 5.0.2), libsndfile1 (>= 1.0.20), libstdc++6 (>= 9), hydrogen-data (= 1.0.0~beta2-0ubuntu1) Recommends: hydrogen-drumkits, hydrogen-doc, rubberband-cli Suggests: ladspa-plugin Filename: pool/universe/h/hydrogen/hydrogen_1.0.0~beta2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 1387864 MD5sum: e43e54081542fac25863fe5a4a2ec33f SHA1: b4fe78e7b509de4f10380c22372b41c4f6d3e31f SHA256: 79e7be132bb99601cf6c4c11803949ad334214700c6222d7276ad4621a7a626e Homepage: http://www.hydrogen-music.org/ Description-en: advanced drum machine/step sequencer Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine. It’s main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.
General features:
- Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 5.
- Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats.
- Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.
Sequencer and mixer features:
- Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
- Up to 64 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.
- 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
- Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
- Ability to import/export song files.
- Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.
- Multiple patterns playing at once.
Other features:
- JACK, ALSA, PortAudio, OSS and PulseAudio audio drivers.
- ALSA MIDI and PortMidi input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
- Import/export of drumkits.
- Export song to wav file.
- Export song to midi file. Task: ubuntustudio-audio
There are three methods to install hydrogen on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hydrogen Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hydrogen using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hydrogen
Install hydrogen Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hydrogen using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hydrogen
Install hydrogen Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install hydrogen using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hydrogen
How To Uninstall hydrogen on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the hydrogen package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hydrogen
Uninstall hydrogen And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hydrogen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hydrogen
Remove hydrogen Configurations and Data
To remove hydrogen configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hydrogen
Remove hydrogen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hydrogen configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hydrogen
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hydrogen package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
