drumkv1 an old-school drum-kit sampler

What's drumkv1 ?

drumkv1 is an old-school all-digital drum-kit sampler synthesizer with stereo fx.

Features:

• pure stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI input support;
• LV2 instrument plugin.
  URI: http://drumkv1.sourceforge.net/lv2

drumkv1 is free, open-source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.

Sourceforge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/drumkv1

Weblog: http://www.rncbc.org

See also:

• synthv1 - an old-school polyphonic synthesizer;
• samplv1 - an old-school polyphonic sampler.

Screenshots

Requirements

The software requirements for build and runtime are listed as follows:

Mandatory:

• Qt 4 (core, gui), C++ class library and tools for crossplatform development and internationalization
  http://qt-project.org
• libsndfile, C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound
  http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/

Optional (opted-in at build time):

• JACK Audio Connection Kit
  http://jackaudio.org/
• ALSA, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
  http://www.alsa-project.org/
• LV2, Audio Plugin Standard, the extensible successor of LADSPA
  http://lv2plug.in/

Downloads

Latest release

2013-03-01 - One third bug-fix release.
drumkv1-0.3.2.tar.gz

• Pitch-bend, Modwheel and LFO Pitch range internal fixes.
• LV2 State save flags now forced to be portable POD.
• Color palette hack on Qt5 dark themes.

Previous and older releases, including the change log, are also available here. You may also check out from the latest bleeding edge development source tree, using Subversion.

You can browse all files available for download, including binary packages, at drumkv1 Files on SourceForge.net.

Installation

The installation procedure follows the standard for source distributions. In the extracted source directory, just do:

./configure [--prefix=prefix]
make

and optionally as root:

make install

This procedure will end installing the following:

• prefix/bin/drumkv1_jack (JACK standalone client)
• prefix/lib/lv2/drumkv1.lv2 (LV2 plugin bundle)

Just launch prefix/bin/drumkv1_jack and you're off (hopefully). Note that the default installation path prefix is /usr/local.

Configuration

drumkv1 holds its settings and configuration state per user, in a file located as $HOME/.config/rncbc.org/drumkv1.conf. Normally, there's no need to edit this file, as it is recreated and rewritten everytime drumkv1 is run.

Bugs

Plenty still, after all this is alpha software ;)

Support

drumkv1 is open source free software. For bug reports, feature requests, discussion forums, mailling lists, or any other matter related to the development of this piece of software, please use the Sourceforge project page.

You can also find timely and closer contact information on my personal web site.

Enjoy.

rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc at rncbc dot org