hydrumkit

HyDrumkit is a LV2 drum sampler plugin. It can load Hydrogen drum kits and play them, with minimal runtime controls. It will use settings (volume, pan, envelopes, etc.) from the drumkit itself, and downmix the instruments to a simple stereo output.

Some features:

• full LV2 support
  • state save/restore
  • asynchronous loading of samples
• extensive support for Hydrogen drumkit features
  • multi-layer instruments
  • pan / volume
  • envelopes
  • notably missing: pitch shifting
• minimalist UI with a single button to load a new drumkit
• a simple humanizer (modeled after the one in Drumgizmo)

It offers very similar functionality to DrMr, but with a slightly improved engine and fewer controls: the idea is that you set up and tune the drumkit in Hydrogen itself, and only use hydrumkit to play it in your DAW.

The code is based on the LV2 Sampler example, with abundant inspiration taken from Fabla, Drumgizmo and of course Hydrogen itself.

Installation

To install from source, run:

autoreconf --install
./configure
make
make install

By default this will install the plugin in ~/.lv2/, but this can be controlled with the --with-lv2-plugin-dir option to configure.