Copying drumkits into Hydrogen Drum Machine - Mac OSX

Recently I needed to move import some old drumkits that I had created from an old backup to my new installation on OSX.  I did not have prepackaged Hydrogen drumkit files, but rather had a directory with wav samples and a drumkit.xml.

It took a little digging, but here's the process I followed:

1. Locate drumkit audio files and drumkit.xml
2. Locate the drumkit name in drumkit.xml
3. Create a directory in /Applications/Hydrogen.app/Contents/Resources/data/drumkits using the name found above
4. From the directory where the drumkit.xml and audio files are located, execute the following cp * /Applications/Hydrogen.app/Contents/Resources/data/drumkits/GregsKit (but of course, instead of using "GregsKit" use whatever the drumkit name is)
5. Restart Hydrogen and find your imported kit in the Sound Library under "System Kits"
6. For ease next time, export your kit so that it is formatted properly as an .h2drumkit file

This was much faster than loading each instrument individually.  I think it took less time, even with the searching I needed to do to find the location of the system kits.  It was worth the hour, and I hope this makes things easier for me or someone else if I ever need to do this again.

Season's End

It has been a very long time since I've spent any time blogging, but feel compelled to do so again.  

It's been a busy summer, as are all seasons for the Rolling clan.  We're about to spend some quality family time together, during which it is my intent to be diligent in prayer and meditation regarding several key areas in life.  Essentially, I'm feeling a call to seek God's direction regarding whether or not I'm spending my time on earth doing what is most important.  

Hope you all are having a great summer and I look forward to the coming time of rest and recovery.

Vacation is always too short

Once again, I wind up waiting awake as my vacation ends.  I feel like it went too quickly, that I wasted too much of it, that I wish I had one more day with my kids.

Thankfully, I have two more days when this hit me this year.

Tomorrow we have more fun...

Thus Endeth the Lesson

I just now finished the training material for the EMCTA exam tomorrow afternoon.  I'll spend the morning reviewing and taking the EMC practice exams. 

Wish me luck...

What I'm up to

I started in on a new EMC certification, the EMC Backup Recovery Technology Architect.  You can read my narrations here.

More to come, but not right now...

Suburban: 3, Greg 2 - Game Over

Well, I reassembled the Suburban and fired it up.  I was ecstatic that it started and I drove it for the first time in months.  My heart sank as it lost power after about 15 minutes and I could almost not get it up to 30 miles an hour. 

I did a compression test.  No compression on cylinders 4 or 6.  All others appeared fine, so I tore into it again.  I pulled the valve cover off the passenger side and adjusted the valves.

No compression.

A quick phone call to my good friend Mike, and he confirmed what I feared.  Most likely when I over-tightened the rockers on the initial reassembly, the valves bent.  To repair this will require going even deeper into the engine, pulling the heads and resurfacing them.  Then, we hope there are no holes in the cylinders.  It's more than I'm up for, and I'm a little heartbroken and a little p***ed off.

Beaten by a $1500 truck...

Shucks...

Success

Now we'll get it timed and see if the knock is actually fixed.  I started this in May.

Gee, it will be nice to have this done.