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95.5MiB
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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 drum-kits: 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.
Additionally there is a percussion set, called Buskman's Holiday.
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 9 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
- Buskman's Holiday
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 that multi-out is only available for the drum-kits. The Buskman's Holiday percussion kit is stereo only.)
Note Assignments (Drums)
The drumkit 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 | |
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).
Note Assignments (Percussion)
The percussion plugin uses MIDI notes 35 through 55.
Key# | (Note) | Drum Sample |
---|---|---|
35 | (B1) | Stick Click |
36 | (C2) | Cajon Thump |
37 | (C#2) | Finger Snaps |
38 | (D2) | Cajon Slap Left |
39 | (D#2) | Hand Clap |
40 | (E2) | Cajon Slap Right |
41 | (F2) | Large Conga Left |
42 | (F#2) | Shakers |
43 | (G2) | Large Conga Right |
44 | (G#2) | Shake Tambourine |
45 | (A2) | Small Conga Left |
46 | (Bb2) | Bump Tambourine |
47 | (B2) | Small Conga Right |
48 | (C3) | Claves |
49 | (C#3) | Cymbal |
50 | (D3) | Cymbal Bell |
51 | (D#3) | Cowbell |
52 | (E3) | Foot Stomp |
53 | (F3) | Bucket |
54 | (F#3) | Bell Tree Down |
55 | (G3) | Bell Tree Up |