Hydrogen Drumkit Tools

This repository contains a script to generate drumkits for the Hydrogen Drum Sequencer from sounds produced by other VSTs. Over time it should include other utilities to work with Hydrogen drumkits.

Requirements

• Python 3

• Mido (Python library to work with midi files)

• PyYaml

• ffmpeg

Installation

Ubuntu / Debian

sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg

git clone https://github.com/pablorocka/hydrogen_drumkit_tools.git
cd hydrogen_drumkit_tools

# Use Virtualenv (recommended)
python3 -m venv ./venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install mido pyyaml

Usage

To generate a new kit using sounds from other VSTs where using the samples directly is not possible either for proprietary formats or license issues.

1. Generate midi file

python3 kit_converter.py midi --config default.yml

1. Load midi in your DAW and apply your VST

2. Export to wav, and save the file in the media folder (name the file: media/<kit_code>.wav)

3. Run the kit generator script

python3 kit_converter.py kit --config default.yml

a h2drumkit file should be now available on the kits folder