"About why the plugin doesn't load, no clue"
I think I do now. I try to install everything Ardour and Music production related on the fastest Disk (M.2 NVME on my system (together with the OS and most Programs). My home folder is on a different less fast Disk (also M.2 but bigger and slower).
I tried to install to install AVL into a plug in folder I created on the fast disk specially for plugins I want to install. That folder was outside my home directory, so probably it was a permission problem. I now install plugins into a $ home/.lv2 directory.
Lesson learned (for the time being) don't come up with to complicated constructions.
After a few hours puzzling, I think I have things working I wanted.
"Normally with avl-drumkit, you record/edit/play all midi on one single midi track and the outputs are fanned out to several audio buses where you can process the individual sounds." - I should have know that before I set up almost the same thing manually. Also found this video far to late:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUSdXmlu8UQ
Anyway, maybe some folk would like to know how I did it (for now).
Specifics for the Millenium HD120 Drum kit:
* I connected the drum kit to my system via USB.
Created 8 MIDI track in Ardour, the number of interfaces (pedals, pads and "cymbals") on the drumkit. And named them.
* Connected every track I created to the a2j bridge item "HD-DRUM [40} (capture): HD-DRUM MIDI 1" in Carla:
* Mapped the MIDI notes coming from the drum kit with the, I think by default installed plugin "ACE MIDI Monitor" (handy thing to know).
Drumkit has little white tags on the cables.
Tag on cable to Hi Hat cymbal looks like:
Kick Drum (Bass Drum)
I mapped the MIDI notes. Sometimes I got two notes coming when hitting a pad (Maybe a center and edge note??). I used the following MIDI notes to get things working consistent (so just one MIDI note per channel, except the Hi Hat trak):
Tag name: | MIDI note: | Used for:
RD | (0)59 | Ride Cymbal Tip
SD | (0)38 | Snare Center
CR | (0)49 | Crash Cymbal 2 (right)
T1 | (0)50 | Snare Side Stick
T2 | (0)47 | Tom Center
T3 | (0)43 | Floor Tom Center
BD | (0)36 | Kick Drum
HH | (0)46 | Semi-Open HiHat
HHP | (0)44 | Hi Hat pedal
When Hi Hat pedal (HHP) is hold down than HH gives a different MIDI note
HH | (0)42 | Closed HiHat
* Then I inserted the plugin "AVL Drumkit MIDI Map" on every MIDI channel, and mapped it all the best I could figure out.
Kick Drum setup in "AVL Drumkit MIDI Map" looks like this:
Hi Hat setup I did like this:
* I was not happy with how hard I needed to hit the drums to get the maximum volume, so I went on the search how to tweak the velocity setting a bit. Couldn't find a preinstalled plugin in Ardour (probalbly there is one). I found
https://github.com/x42/midifilter.lv2.
MIDI plugin collection with a "Velocity Scale" plugin.
I used Git clone, but first install LV2 SDK to be able to build.
Code: Select all
git clone git://github.com/x42/midifilter.lv2.git
cd midifilter.lv2
make
sudo make install PREFIX=/usr
After that I copied and pasted the whole midifilter.lv2 directory into
Still in the process of tweaking things and finding out how it all works
* I inserted the "Black Pearl drumkit" plugin from AVL into the track. Mixer strips looks like:
So Drum kit works, just needs to be set-up and tweaking. Not a drummer myself, but some sort of percussion instrument is always handy in a studio.
Hope some of the notes above may help some people with a Millenium HD120 Drumkit.
