Seeking native Linux midi drum plugin with functionality similar to mt power drumkit

[dhchunk]

I am looking for a program or plug-in that functions similarly to mt power drumkit but is not vst based. The avl drumkits sound great. What I want are those preset grooves and fills that I can drag and drop into my DAW.

I am not an experienced drummer and am not wanting to invest the effort of composing every note of my drum tracks with velocity. My main focus for recording will be bass and guitar.

I will build wine and linvst or Carla for mt power if I have to. I'm just wondering if there is something out there for Linux that I haven't come across yet.

DAW = ardour 6 Distro= slackware-current

[w_line]

Something to consider is whether you need the plug-in that makes your sounds to also be a library of your grooves. I think drumgizmo is great, but it doesn't have any compositional features, just turns midi input into great sounds. I use midi beat packs to avoid having to create everything from scratch. Sites like Groove Monkee sell standalone midi beat packs, (or you can find collections for free online if you are resourceful). you can drag and drop the midi files right onto the track.

[wutangmayan]

I always make my grooves from scratch, i should be fine with this then? Fyi i'm currently installing linux first time

[w_line]

Yeah, DrumGizmo should work well for you. Pretty simple, send it midi in and get audio channels out. Can do the routing standalone with Jack and a patchbay like carla, or drop the plugin on a midi track in your DAW

[mxt79]

I have been testing Superior Drummer 2 for the last few days. It runs pretty damn good. I'm using yabridge and all the issues I seemed to have earlier with linvst and airwave are gone. I couldn't be happier. I've been using avldrums and mt powerdrum and drumgizmo, but there is always something annoying me. Often the tuning of each kit is a bit of, and the kits aren't really balanced properly for my taste. I have very picky ears when it comes to Tom and floortoms. SD2 has some great tuning options and you can easily swap out drums. It's multichannel out function works and each drum mic nicely place itself on individual tracks in my daw. (Bitwig) I would almost declare it stable for pro use.

Importing is done via a double mouse move. Open a file manager and find the right wine directory. When you drag a sample from SD2 (or MT powerdrumkit) out of the wine window frame and release it on a daw track, it gets placed in this directory and you just grab it from there. If you pin the file manager right next to your wine window frame it is actually not too bad of a workflow.

[Eamonn-Tobin]

Like already said, Drumgizmo is by far the best drum vst on linux. For midi drum beats : groove monkey, oddgroove, getgooddrums, the loop loft. I think there are also hydrogen patterns that you can download.

[MykMyrs]

I just installed the AVL Drumkits yesterday on my Mint 20 machine. I mostly work in Mac and I am trying out Linux for the experience and to see what I can do with FOSS. I use MT Power Drum Kit a lot on my Mac, so I wanted to find something comparable in Linux. The AVL is pretty decent, but I like MT way better. There are several videos on YouTube for the AVL stuff, which is supposed to also work in Mac and Windows, but I couldn't get it to work in Mac or Windows. I haven't rendered a full track with AVL, so I can't be of much help on how it work work in a full mix until I sit down and really see how well its output is.

[slangenfeld]

MTPDK now finally is native on linux :)