Looking for methods to create drums

I spent the last five years or so making music in renoise and have come to love the workflow, especially as it is essentially a big sampler and layering is very simple and easy. I tried to make a song in reaper recently but I found it very clunky and awkward to make drums. Which samplers do you use? I tried with the built in one but didn't like it particularly. I would prefer to have all drums loaded in one sampler with each being output to its own track, and one lane of midi to trigger them. When I tried with the built in sampler I set it up so each sampler is on its on track limited to just one note and one midi track sending midi to all the sampler tracks. This wasn't ideal, it was a hassle setting up a new drum sound and just generally felt inefficient. I've just realised that there is a multisampler in the LSP plugins which looks like it could be perfect, it has tons of instrument slots and each one has sub-slots so that should take care of layering. I don't make rock based music so drumgizmo isn't very well suited. What's your drum workflow and what samplers do you use, and how do you set it up?

Take a look at these two videos It's also possible to route all the instruments from ReaSampler to separate tracks.

Maybe this is silly but did you try redux ?

Looks pretty cool and useful! It also seems to work in Linux :) Just have to figure out how to trigger the pads. edit: ...and I think this is where the problem comes in ... maybe not (fully) compatible with Linux yet.

Will Hydrogen not do this for you?

Hydrogen in Reaper 

I am also looking for drum software in linux to use in Reaper. I found that Linux Mint had both DrumGizmo and Hydrogen in the repositories. However, though Drum Gizmo would install, it would not run. Nothing happened. Hydrogen installed and runs as a standalone (reminds me of ancient FruityLoops). However, how do you use Hydrogen with Reaper? It doesn't seem to be a plugin. Is there a way to synch it? Or do you have to save as a wav and and import it? thanks

DrumGizmo itself has no sounds. You need to load a kit made in its format (XML files and audio files in folders). Then it'll be able to produce sound. Send MIDI to it, it'll output on multiple channels. You'll have to set up multiple channels in the DAW, up to 16 of them, from DrumGizmo.

For DrumGizmo, you have to download drumkits here : then launch it in a terminal with the path of the drumkit, as mentionned here : . You can use also Hydrogen drumkits with DrMr plugin (. Or use Hydrogen as Jack master with Reaper as slave.

I'm just going to use DrumGizmo as a plugin in Reaper, not as a standalone application. I don't want to have anything "outside Reaper" and using JACK etc.