v6.0 (2023-03-15)
57.8MiB
v6.0 (2023-03-15)
57.7MiB
v6.0 (2023-03-15)
78.9MiB
v6.0 (2023-03-15)
85.6MiB
v6.0 (2023-03-15)
72.9MiB
v6.0 (2023-03-15)
72.8MiB
v6.0 (2023-03-15)
72.7MiB
v6.0 (2023-03-15)
72.9MiB
(all platforms)
About
avldrums.lv2 is a drum sample player plugin dedicated to Glen MacArthur's AVL Drumkits. This self-contained plugin provides a convenient way to rapidly sequence and mix midi-drums.
The AVLdrums comes as four separate drumkits: Black Pearl, Red Zeppelin, the Blonde Bop kit played with regular sticks and Blonde Bop Hot Rods played with rute sticks. There are 5 velocity layers for each of the 28 kits pieces or drum-zones for both kits.
The main benefits compared to loading the soundfont into a generic sample player are:
- built-in MIDNAM: The plugin informs the host about note-names
- Semantic grouping of ports: fan-out separate mics to individual tracks
- Compatible stereo/multi-out variant: Allows to in-place replace the stereo version with multi-out. Start with stereo when sequencing and when moving to the mixing stage use separate outputs to process or customize level and pan of individual drums.
Demo Video
Plugin-variants
The different kits as well as the multi-out version are separate plugins, so the plugin itself has no configuration options. It is ready-to use directly after loading it. The installer contains 4 plugins:
- Red Zeppelin stereo
- Red Zeppelin multi-out
- Black Pearl stereo
- Black Pearl multi-out
- Blonde Bop stereo
- Blonde Bop multi-out
- Blonde Bop Hot Rod stereo
- Blonde Bop Hot Rod multi-out
Multi Channel Layout
The plugin ports are named, when using pin-management in Ardour or Mixbus, the names are displayed. Also fan-out will use the port-name as part of the created bus. For reference the 9 ports are
- 1
- Kick (mono)
- 2
- Snare (mono)
- 3
- Hi-Hat (mono)
- 4
- Tom (mono)
- 5
- Floor-Tom (mono)
- 6+7
- Cymbals (stereo)
- 8+9
- Percussions (stereo)
Note Assignments
The plugin uses MIDI notes 36 through 61. The five velocity layers are mapped to 1-26, 27-52, 53-77, 78-102, 103-127. Cymbal-hits are exclusive: a new hit stops the any active samples of the same cymbal.
| Key# | (Note) | Drum Sample | Exclusive Group |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | (B1) | Stick Click (Blonde Bop kit only) | |
| 36 | (C2) | Kick Drum | |
| 37 | (C#2) | Snare SideStick | |
| 38 | (D2) | Snare Ctr. | |
| 39 | (D#2) | Hand Clap | |
| 40 | (E2) | Snare Edge | |
| 41 | (F2) | Floor Tom Ctr. | |
| 42 | (F#2) | Closed HiHat | A |
| 43 | (G2) | Floor Tom Edge | |
| 44 | (G#2) | Pedal HiHat | A |
| 45 | (A2) | Tom Ctr. | |
| 46 | (Bb2) | Semi-Open HiHat | A |
| 47 | (B2) | Tom Edge | |
| 48 | (C3) | Swish HiHat | A |
| 49 | (C#3) | Crash Cymbal 1 (left) | B |
| 50 | (D3) | Crash Cymbal 1 Choked* | B |
| 51 | (D#3) | Ride Cymbal Tip | C |
| 52 | (E3) | Ride Cymbal Choked* | C |
| 53 | (F3) | Ride Cymbal Bell | C |
| 54 | (F#3) | Tambourine | |
| 55 | (G3) | Splash Cymbal | |
| 56 | (G#3) | Cowbell | |
| 57 | (A3) | Crash Cymbal 2 (right) | D |
| 58 | (Bb3) | Crash Cymbal 2 Choked* | D |
| 59 | (B3) | Ride Cymbal Shank | C |
| 60 | (C4) | Crash Cymbal 3 (large Paiste) | |
| 61 | (C#4) | Maracas |
* Cymbal hit with only one velocity layer in Black Pearl, and Red Zeppelin (the Blonde Bop kits have layered chokes).