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VR MIDI Drummer

VR drumming app with MIDI output (Made with LÖVR)

How to use:

Move a single kit piece: Point the right drumstick to a kit piece and hold "a" to move it
Move the entire kit: Point the right drumstick to any kit piece and hold "b" to move
Change UI interaction hand: Press either the left or right controller trigger
Toggle UI interaction: Press the left thumbstick down
Setup your DAW to accept input from the same MIDI port as the one selected in the app
If you use Reaper you can use the x and y buttons on the left controller to Fast forward/Rewind the song you play along. To set this up follow this guide. Other DAWs should be able to do that too

NOTE: If you run the app from source you'll need luamidi.dll and lua51.dll on the same path as lovr.exe. Get it from the releases (inside the released app archive)

Example setup guide using Reaper:

Download and install loopMIDI
Click the + button on bottom left to add a MIDI port
In Reaper create a new track and right-click on the tracks's Arm/Disarm button->Input: MIDI->loopMIDI Port->All channels
Make sure to set your audio device to ASIO for low latency. If you don't have an ASIO capable interface you can use ASIO4ALL
Load your favorite drum VST (I'm using the free version of Steven Slate Drums 5.5)
Arm the track and launch VR MIDI Drummer
On the floating window under MIDI Ports select the loopMIDI Port
You should now be able to hear the drum sounds
If you own a USB footpedal you can set it up to trigger a keyboard key by using JoyToKey or a similar utility
By default the kick is mapped to the Space key. You can change this mapping by selecting the kick piece in the floating window and clicking on the Assign key... button
Similarly, the hihat open/closed is mapped to the h key by default