.TH HYDROGEN "1" "November 2016" "Hydrogen 0.9.7" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
hydrogen \- a simple drum machine/step sequencer.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP
.B hydrogen
[\fI-v\fR] [\fI-h\fR] \fI-s file\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Hydrogen 0.9.7 [http://www.hydrogen\-music.org].
Copyright 2002\-2008 Alessandro Cominu,
Copyright 2008\-2016 The hydrogen development team.
.PP
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.
.PP
Hydrogen comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
.SH OPTIONS
.HP
\fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-data\fR PATH \- Use an alternate system data path
.HP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-driver\fR AUDIODRIVER \- Use the selected audio driver (jack, alsa, oss)
.HP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-song\fR FILE \- Load a song (*.h2song) at startup
.HP
\fB\-S\fR, \fB\-\-jacksessionid\fR ID \- Start a JackSessionHandler session
.HP
\fB\-p\fR, \fB\-\-playlist\fR FILE \- Load a playlist (*.h2playlist) at startup
.HP
\fB\-k\fR, \fB\-\-kit\fR drumkit_name - Load a drumkit at startup
.HP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-install\fR FILE - install a drumkit (*.h2drumkit)
.HP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-nosplash\fR \- Hide splash screen
.HP
\fB\-V[Level]\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR[=\fILevel\fR] \- Print a lot of debugging info
.IP
Level, if present, may be None, Error, Warning, Info, Debug or 0xHHHH
.HP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR \- Show version info
.HP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR \- Show this help message
.SH FILES
.TP
.B hydrogen.conf
.PP
Defaults and startup settings for Hydrogen.
.TP
.B data/*
.PP
Can contains user's data such as drumkits, patterns, playlists, songs, ...
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.PP
.B LADSPA_PATH
.HP 
Path to LADSPA plugins.
.SH BUGS & FEATURES REQUEST
.PP
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
.SH AUTHORS
.PP
The hydrogen development team. See complete list at Hydrogen's "About" Dialog. You can contact them at <hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>.
.TP
Subscription to the mailing list can be done here :
.br
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel .
.SH MISC
This manual page was written by Olivier Humbert <trebmuh@tuxfamily.org> as a part of the Hydrogen project.