AVL Drumkits installation

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#1

I’m running Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.2

I’ve installed Ardour 6 from the Mint software centre.

I’m trying to install AVL Drumkits plugins.

I downloaded and extracted the AVL Drumkits plugins.

I navigated to the Home folder and clicked Ctrl+H this revealed a hidden .lv2 folder

I copied the extracted AVL Drumkits files into the hidden .lv2 folder.

The plugins include a kit called ‘Red Zeppelin’. I opened Ardour and clicked on: Window/Plugins manager. I typed ‘Red Zeppelin’ but nothing showed up.

I entered the terminal command below.

home/username/.lv2

It produced this result.

home/username/.lv2: No such file or directory

I think I have to enter a command into the terminal in order to create a directory but I don’t know how to go about doing that.

Any ideas?

#2

Make sure you only copy the folder “avldrums.lv2” from the extracted file (or run the installer that comes with it).

Do you have $HOME/.lv2/avldrums.lv2/ (and not $HOME/.lv2/x42-avldrums/)?

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Alternatively you could install the “avldrums” package from your Linux distro. Debian ships it so Mint should have it as well.

#3

avldrums is in the Mint repository.

I deleted the files that I’d copied into the hidden .lv2 folder and then installed avldrums from the repository.

The Red Zeppelin and Black Pearl kits show up in Ardour/Windows/Plugins manager

I thought that new files of some type might appear in the .lv2 folder but it remains empty.

Many thanks.

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#4

Packaged, system wide installed plugins are in /usr/lib/lv2

#5

I would guess the Debian | Ubuntu | Mint AVL Drumkits Packages are most likely well out of date… Even KX Studio Repo is long out of date (last I checked)… I would guess the Blonde Bop and Buskman’s Holiday are not included.

I would suggest Robin’s site is a better place to get them… In AV Linux I simply wrap Robin’s binaries in a Deb. This package is here *You will need to uninstall the Mint Package…

http://bandshed.net/packages/AVL-MXe-23.1-Custom_Packages/plugins-x42-avl-drumkits-lv2_0.7.2-binaries-bookworm1-1_amd64.deb