r/linuxaudio • u/dumb_magician • 1d ago
I made a drum VST3/LV2 plugin for Linux!
https://youtu.be/gszPxE3Zv8YHello r/linuxaudio !
I've been working on GlorpDrums, an open-source drum instrument as a standalone application and VST3/LV2 plugin. The goal is to build a free, open source alternative to commercial drum software like EZDrummer 3 (i know i'm not on that level yet lol) particularly for people who want to perform or record alongside an electronic drumkit through MIDI.
Project: https://github.com/asuka-glorp/GlorpDrums
I'm sharing here because I'd love to get feedback from people with real experience developing or using Linux audio software.
I would love to get DAW users who can test it in their actual setups and report compatibility issues, crashes, audio glitches, or other problems.
And also electronic drummers who can connect a MIDI drum kit and test how well the instrument responds to real playing, including velocity sensitivity, pad mapping, and hi-hat behavior where supported.
A bit of personal context: I had to sell my own electronic drum kit earlier this year because of health complications. Drumming is still a personal passion, so I decided to go ahead developing this project. I can't personally test it against physical drum hardware right now, which is one of the biggest gaps I'd like to address with the community.
It's still very much early days for this project so i'm not pretending it's perfect, but i think it's solid enough (hopefully) to start seeing the light of day.
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u/Life_Interest_9967 1d ago
I have a project I can test quite soon , been using Mt power drum kit so I can provide A/B feedback
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u/dumb_magician 1d ago
That would be awesome. Expect things to break and not be 100% there. And thanks
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u/Salads_and_Sun 23h ago
Is this just one drum kit sound or multiple kits? This sounds good to me.
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u/dumb_magician 22h ago
There are two kits you can download other than the built in kit which is pretty basic. All of them made with Creative Commons samples, because you know, budget lol
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u/deaddyfreddy 17h ago
Any plans for SFZ compatibility?
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u/dumb_magician 13h ago
Not at.the momento. Right now there's a roadmap in the GitHub repo.you can check. I might consider it for later.
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u/deaddyfreddy 5h ago edited 5h ago
Because of? NIH or what?
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u/dumb_magician 3h ago
Sorry I don't know what NIH is, English is not my first language as you might have noticed. I just didn't think about it, this project started mainly as a tool to replicate the workflow I know with the tools I use
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u/JazzyEagle 6h ago
Sounds pretty good! It did sound to me like the kick drum was clipping a bit, but other than that, it sounded pretty good! I'm hoping that's just the video or YouTube compressing it too much, so I'm going to download it and give it a try. Thanks for making this!
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u/dumb_magician 3h ago
I think I cranked it a but much lol not a great mixer. Hope you check it out and leave some feedback
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u/beaumad 1d ago
Very cool demonstration. I'm looking forward to seeing development progress.