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.