avldrums.lv2 is a drum sample player plugin dedicated to Glen MacArthur's AVL Drumkits. This self-contained plugin provides a convenient way to rapidly sequence and mix midi-drums.

The AVLdrums comes as four separate drumkits: Black Pearl, Red Zeppelin, the Blonde Bop kit played with regular sticks and Blonde Bop Hot Rods played with rute sticks. There are 5 velocity layers for each of the 28 kits pieces or drum-zones for both kits.

The main benefits compared to loading the soundfont into a generic sample player are:

built-in MIDNAM: The plugin informs the host about note-names
Semantic grouping of ports: fan-out separate mics to individual tracks
Compatible stereo/multi-out variant: Allows to in-place replace the stereo version with multi-out. Start with stereo when sequencing and when moving to the mixing stage use separate outputs to process or customize level and pan of individual drums.