Hydrogen Drumkits

[asbak]

There's an interesting selection of drumkits for Hydrogen which can be downloaded here

http://www.slackermedia.info/sprints/mu ... Sprint_v2/
http://www.slackermedia.info/sprints/mu ... umkits.tar

It seems that many of these kits and perhaps also some of the other hydrogen collections that are floating around on sourceforge and kxstudio don't mute their hihats when the close hihat note triggers.
To fix this cd to where the kits are installed, usually under /usr/share/hydrogen/data/drumkits/ or ~/.hydrogen/data/drumkits

cd into the kit for example /usr/share/hydrogen/data/drumkits/Alesis_DM5_circle_fullKit
vi drumkit.xml

Look for the hihats, in this example these are

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<name>42hat_closed</name>
<name>44hat_half</name>
<name>46hat_open</name>

They need to be assigned to the same mute group in order to mute the open hat sound when the hat closed note triggers.

For each hihat, scroll to where you see

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<Release>1000</Release>

and add

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<muteGroup>1</muteGroup>

in the line below and save the file. You can use different group values, it doesn't necessarily have to be 1 but the group # will need to match for the hihats.

Alternatively edit it in hydrogen's instrument gui and save it but the changes to the drumkit.xml will be saved to the user folder at ~/.hydrogen/data/drumkits/Alesis_DM5_circle_fullKit/drumkit.xml and not to the kit at /usr/share/hydrogen/data/drumkits/Alesis_DM5_circle_fullKit/drumkit.xml

(Assuming you installed it under this location)


One other thing to note, the LV2 plugin DrMrSampler doesn't appear to mute the hydrogen hihats (at least not on my computer) so if you need this functionality using hydrogen as a standalone app would be a better bet.

lv2ls | grep drmr http://github.com/nicklan/drmr

[asbak]

I've edited the drumkit.xml files for most of the kits to include mutegroups for the hihats which was missing from nearly all the kits. (Closed hihat didn't mute the open hihat sound in the original kits)

This set is a combination of the hydrogen drumkits which can be installed with KXStudio and another collection hosted by Slackermedia.
There are 131 kits totaling around 415 MegaBytes in size.

To install just uncompress the kits in /usr/share/hydrogen/data/drumkits

Part 1
https://www.sendspace.com/file/n07gt7

Part 2
https://www.sendspace.com/file/jn9mqa