[LAU] Introducing AVL Drumkits LV2!

Jostein Chr. Andersen jostein at vivaldi.net
Sun Jan 15 22:43:58 UTC 2017


On söndag 15 januari 2017 kl. 14:00:40 CET info at bandshed.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just passing along this screencast of the new AVL Drumkits LV2 plugin
> in Ardour 5.5 created by Robin Gareus:
> 
> https://youtu.be/4idMZTxTaY8 [1]
> 
> More info here: http://x42-plugins.com/x42/x42-avldrums [2]
...

This is huge news and the beginning of something very needed in the Linux 
community, I will check it out tomorrow! 


However, I have some toughs about it when looking at the key map:

You should really have dimensions (or zones as many also calls it) that can be 
used on any wanted item, for example the the HH. That means the same note for 
hitting the edge of the HH and use a controller, such as modulation wheel, 
expression pedal or the HH pedal in a MIDI drumset for controlling the HH 
openess. The lack of things like this is also one of the main issues that make   
DrumGizmo not quite there yet when it comes to professional usage, but I 
notice they have it on the todo list.

You will probably see what I mean and why when looking at the last page of the 
Natural Drum Kit's manual: http://naturaldrum.com/docs/NDKManual.pdf

I will come back tomorrow after checking it and have some more comments and 
check how the HH is muted (should only be done by the pedal) and so on. I'm 
sure that it will be very useful for many projects as it is now already.

Jostein




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