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Can Hydrogen make my drum machine play?

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Sat, 02/18/2012 - 20:59
BrianBeuken
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I am sorry if this is a very obvious question but I'm totally new to midi and am not really sure why I can't get this to work.

I "thought" midi was a way to get the PC to play the instrument as well as getting the instrument to control the PC.

Here's what I want to do...I have 2 drum machines..one is standard midi, the other may not be..both have midi in and out/through.

I want to create and edit and save a drum arrangment on Hydrogen...then play it back, but on my drum machine...that way when our drummer does not show we have the drum system available to play on a reasonable quality drum machine.

The none standard drum machine is an AdrenalinnIII guitar pedal..I know its possible to tigger individal drums on it, since I have a pedal board that lets me, but so far I can't find any PC based program that lets me do that....but for now..lets leave that.

I am using a Windows version of Hydrogen and have an MAudio Audiophile sound/midi card.

How do I get Hydrogen to send play information out to my drum machine, I cant' find any option that lets me do that.

 

thanks in advance.

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Wed, 02/22/2012 - 18:01
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thijs
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at the bottom of the instrument parameters dialog (see http://www.hydrogen-music.org/hcms/node/5#sect.instrument_editing.parameters) there is an option to select the output midi channel + midi note

here you can config the outgoing midi messages for that specific instrument

hope this helps

thijs

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Fri, 03/16/2012 - 03:22
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allan_k
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I wouldn't recommend trying to do this with the Adrenalinn.. great device but not great for this purpose.. 

Following thijs advice will work for your other drum machine .. but if you set your drum machine to record .. it won't be in sync with hydrogen. so you may have issues with loop points .. You'll need to setup a drumkit in hydrogen with the corresponding MIDI channel and note to the instruments on your external drum machine.. 

You drum machine should have the ability to sync to MIDI clock.. so you need to set that up and then use http://jack-trans2midi.sourceforge.net/ .. Hydrogen needs to be setup as jack master for this to work.. 

It's a bit of fiddling around but should work.. 

 

Alternatively you could try using SEQ 24 which is probably better suited to your specific purpose.. (MIDI clock inbuilt and more designed for using with external gear).. 

 

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thx.