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Free LV2/VSTi drum machine for Linux and Windows

NEWS

December 26 2025 — Drumlabooh 12.1.0

The new release is a response to numerous user feedback on the previous version, as well as to various suggestions that have accumulated over time.

Added support for MIDI mapping in Hydrogen drum kits.

Fixed support for MIDI mapping in SFZ.

The MIDI note numbers associated with instrument slots for the current MIDI Mapping settings (in Auto and Kit modes) are now displayed as tooltips above the slot names.

If the option MIDI map mode = Kit, but no MIDI mapping settings are defined in the drum kit, Drumlabooh automatically switches to MIDI map mode = Auto, where notes are numbered sequentially starting from the MIDI base note value. Previously, Drumlabooh simply remained silent.

Installed drum kits are now also scanned in user-specified directories. The list of these directories should be placed, one full path per line, in the file $HOME/.config/drumlabooh/user-dirs.txt (for Linux) or in C:\drumlabooh\user-dirs.txt (for Windows). For example:

/home/test/sfz-main
/home/test/sfz-misc
/home/test/hydrogen-kits
/home/test/drumlabooh

Essentially, it no longer matters which format of drum kit is stored in which directory - Drumlabooh correctly recognises them. The exception is ordinary folders containing samples: Drumlabooh can also automatically convert these on the fly into drum kits, but for details please refer to the documentation.

Stay tuned, Peter Semiletov