We’re going to skim over a few things we’ve already discussed in the last Ardour tutorial, so if things get confusing please go there first.
This tutorial will show you how to sync up the digital audio workstation, Ardour, and the advanced drum machine, Hydrogen. This will allow you to have a full featured drum machine playing in perfect time with your Ardour session. Or, one hell of a fancy click track.
Learning to play nice
First, start up JACK. Open Ardour and create a new session. Near the top of the window in Ardour, make sure that Time Master is enabled (green) and is set to JACK rather than Internal:
Now, open Hydrogen. For simplicity’s sake, go ahead and load of one of the demo tracks from the File menu :
