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NAME
     hydrogen - a simple drum machine/step sequencer.

SYNOPSIS
     hydrogen [-v] [-h] -s file

DESCRIPTION
     Hydrogen	1.2.6	[http://www.hydrogen-music.org].    Copyright  2002-2008
     Alessandro Cominu, Copyright 2008-2025 The hydrogen development team.

     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 comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you
     are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the file COPY-
     ING for details.

OPTIONS
     -P, --data PATH - Use an alternate system data path

     -d, --driver AUDIODRIVER - Use the selected audio driver (jack, alsa, oss)

     -s, --song FILE - Load a song (*.h2song) at startup

     -p, --playlist FILE - Load a playlist (*.h2playlist) at startup

     -k, --kit drumkit_name - Load a drumkit at startup

     -i, --install FILE - install a drumkit (*.h2drumkit)

     -O, --osc-port - Use custom OSC port

     -n, --nosplash - Hide splash screen

     -V[Level], --verbose[=Level] - Print a lot of debugging info

	    Level,  if present, may be None, Error, Warning, Info, Debug or 0xH-
	    HHH

     -L, --log-file - Use custom log file

     -T, --log-timestamps - Add timestamps to all log messages

     -v, --version - Show version info

     -h, --help - Show this help message

FILES
     hydrogen.conf

     Defaults and startup settings for Hydrogen.

     data/*

     Can contains user's data such as drumkits, patterns, playlists, songs, ...

ENVIRONMENT
     LADSPA_PATH

     Path to LADSPA plugins.

BUGS & FEATURES REQUEST
     If you find any bug or if you would like to propose a new	feature,  please
     report it to https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen/issues

AUTHORS
     The hydrogen development team. See complete list at Hydrogen's "About" Dia-
     log. You can contact them at <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>.

     Subscription to the mailing list can be done here :
	    http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel .

MISC
     This  manual page was written by Olivier Humbert <trebmuh@tuxfamily.org> as
     a part of the Hydrogen project.

Hydrogen 1.2.6			    July 2025			    HYDROGEN(29)
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