Drum playing plugin

It has been mentioned in issue #1087 about adding a sample based drum machine, and issue #1396 about adding a drum synth.

Tres has also suggested on the mailing list.

I hate to describe other DAWs, but the drum sample in Ableton is very simple and effective and IIRC, it -uses it's default sampler instrument for each individual sample but IIRC, it also can allow other instrument types.

This is not so much an instrument, more of a multi instrument host. The idea is that each drum sound is played by it's own instrument. our new drum instrument, simply routes the note data to the assigned instrument. ie the kick drum could use Kicker, the hats from Audio File Player, the toms form triple- oscillator. The choice of plugins would be down to the user. This does work very well in practice.

How ever i am unsure of the implications of this, And would like to know any thoughts on the idea. or even if it is possible?

Start by reviewing the proposals in issues #1087 and #1396 and the mailing-list discussion. Determine whether a drum instrument can route each note or drum sound to a user-selected instrument or plugin, and document the design implications before implementation. Done should mean a supported, clearly specified multi-instrument drum workflow.