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# the salamander drumkit is out!
- URL: https://wootangent.net/the-salamander-drumkit-is-out/
- Published: 2012-02-26T13:09:50.000Z
- Updated: 2012-02-26T13:09:50.000Z
- Author: Leigh Dyer
- Tags: Linux, Music, linuxsampler, salamander drumkit, salamander grand piano, #Migrated-1792830072870, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-24 08:21

This is just a quick post to mention that the [Salamander Drumkit](http://rytmenpinne.posterous.com/pages/salamander-drumkit?ref=wootangent.net) is now available! As you might expect from the [author of the Salamander Grand Piano](http://rytmenpinne.posterous.com/?ref=wootangent.net), the Salamander Drumkit is a sampled acoustic drumkit that's distributed in SFZ format under a Creative Commons licence. There are a lot of individual samples in there, but instead of using a lot of velocity layers, it instead has many "round-robin" samples -- samples of the same drum hit in the same fashion which are used for successive hits.

Having so many round-robin samples adds a tonne of realism, especially for rolls, because you can trigger the same drum multiple times in quick succession without ever hearing the same sample twice. I think it also helps make this a really fun kit to play, too -- even with just my MIDI keyboard to play it with, it feels lively and dynamic in a way that sampled kits often don't.

Being in SFZ format means that you'll need LinuxSampler from SVN to get it running. If you haven't used LinuxSampler before, [this guide](https://wootangent.net/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-linuxsampler/) should get you started.