Thanks for reading.

Summary-
Choosing/using a beat maker*
No pattern editor window in Hydrogen
error messages that I don't understand


Problem-
I'm trying to find an easy-to-use beat maker. I've tried Hammerhead in the past, but right now I'm trying to use Hydrogen. If you've got any suggestions (beat makers for novices), please tell me.
Hydrogen installed fine, and seemed to run fine. It's configured to use ALSA, I believe. At first, I was able to make and change beats while listening to music from rhythmbox. Then I minimized the pattern editor and it never came back. Ever. I even un- and reinstalled but it no longer shows up. Is this a common problem?
Also, when I run it, my terminal outputs some error messages (even when all seemed well).
They follow:


Hydrogen 0.9.1 [Jan 21 2005] - Copyright 2002-2004 Alessandro Cominu
Compiled modules: (Alsa) (FLAC) (Jack) (OSS) (LRDF)

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

Warning: no locale found: /usr/share/hydrogen/i18n/hydrogen.en_US
[WARNING] SongReader [readSong] Trying toload a song created with a different version of hydrogen.
[WARNING] SongReader [readSong] Song [/usr/share/hydrogen/data/DefaultSong.h2song] saved with version 0.9.0
[LadspaFX::getPluginList] reading directory: /usr/lib/ladspa
[LadspaFX::getPluginList] directory /usr/lib/ladspa not found
[LadspaFX::getLadspaFXGroup]
[LadspaFX::getPluginList] reading directory: /usr/lib/ladspa
[LadspaFX::getPluginList] directory /usr/lib/ladspa not found
[WARNING] Hydrogen [audioEngine_setupLadspaFX] m_pSong=NULL
[ERROR] AlsaAudioDriver Can't set realtime scheduling for ALSA Driver

[ERROR] AlsaAudioDriver [alsaAudioDriver_processCaller] XRUN

(This last line repeats itself at a leisurely pace while the program runs.)

I don't feel like messing with my sound system without advice, so I'm sitting tight until a savior comes. Until then, I'm going to try another beat maker.


Foots-
*Also trying to choose audio editor and digital audio interface. I've used Audacity** and will probably use it. I'm having trouble finding good information about digital audio interfaces (<$250, with several inputs) that install and run smoothly w/Linux. Anybody have experience with dyne:bolic or AGNULA distributions?

(EDIT-m-audio delta 1010 works fine and well)

**Also, I've read that Audacity will not play and record concurrently on Linux. But it will on Windows. Anyone know why this is the case?

(EDIT- this is not the case...)

Same thing happened to me. Hydrogen is useless without this! Let me know if you solved it. Thanks!

YaY! All you have to do is right-click on a pattern in the song editor and click "edit". Poof: pattern editor!

Link

you're right. absolutely.

Actually, I finally went to the Hydrogen forum today and posted the same question. Very silly feeling right now. But damn, its not intuitive, right?

Thanks so much.