My favorite open-source drum-sampler, I use it mainly inside Ardour but I have also used it for e-drums.
It’s not fancy to look at, but it has relatively low resource demand, and can even be run on a headless setup.
The last time I was recording in a studio, I asked the tech to record some single-strokes of my kit, I’ve used those samples to recreate my own kit in Drumgizmo.
Building your own drum-kit can be a bit time-consuming, but there are a couple of great free kits to download on their site if you don’t have your own samples.
I used it on this track:
moster
Moster is a danish word meaning something like “mom’s sister”, I wrote this when I learned that my sister just had a kid.
I used ffmpeg to generate the video from the audio-file, using this one line in the terminal:
ffmpeg -i moster.wav -filter_complex "[0:a]showspectrum=s=hd1080[v]" -map "[v]" -map 0:a -c:v libx264 -c:a copy spectrum.mkv
I’ve got an e-kit and would like to start recording myself, but I have no idea where or how to start. Does anyone have any good resources I can use to get me started?
Do you want to record MIDI or audio?
What outputs does your module have?
Most modules don’t have individual outputs for snare, bd, toms and so on, and only have a stereo audio out, in that case MIDI would be my choice.
There are a lot of free recording-software to get you started, I use Ardour myself, but the most popular one is perhaps Reaper.I only have stereo audio out, so I’m guessing MIDI would be my choice as well.
How difficult is it to use Ardour? Know any good guides I can follow?
Ardour have their own official youtube channel with the basics, and there are a couple of youtubers that make great Ardour content, like https://www.youtube.com/@SudoMetalStudio and https://www.youtube.com/@unfa00
And if you are more into text, there’s always the officialmanual: https://manual.ardour.org/working-with-midi/
I’m not an expert, but to me that sounds amazing. 👍
Thanks :-)
