Decent free drum replacement sampler

[MetalSir]

hello, the last time I posted something here was 2010 and I'm glad to be back!
after 13 years and 2 kids, I started again with recording, mixing (and playing my instrument).

I decided to put together a new DAW and spent days reading this forum in the last weeks.

MANY TKS to ALL YOU guys for your HELP!

Now.. I'm facing SEVERE issues finding a free sample replacement tool for Mac (AU, I'm using UAD LUNA).

I have currently SampleSwap but latency literally kills. I have the Slate Trigger 2 free, but to be honest I have MY samples (recorded in a decade of studio recording) and I just want to be able to use mine.

Please help me
many tks guys I'm happy I'm back.

[Amon1973]

Welcome back then

I'm not aware of decent free drum replacement plugins. I use apTrigga3 from Apulsoft and DrumXChanger from SPL/Plugin Alliance. Both have demos and the latter can be very cheap when on sale.

If you're happy with extracting MIDI from audio, then you've got a bunch more possibilities.
I did this quite a bit in the past: extract MIDI from e.g. the kick track, put a drum sampler with your samples on the resulting MIDI track and it's done. For this purpose I would use Speedrum Lite (free) or Groove Agent SE (free with my DAW but yours will likely have one, too).

[MetalSir]

Welcome back then

I'm not aware of decent free drum replacement plugins. I use apTrigga3 from Apulsoft and DrumXChanger from SPL/Plugin Alliance. Both have demos and the latter can be very cheap when on sale.

If you're happy with extracting MIDI from audio, then you've got a bunch more possibilities.
I did this quite a bit in the past: extract MIDI from e.g. the kick track, put a drum sampler with your samples on the resulting MIDI track and it's done. For this purpose I would use Speedrum Lite (free) or Groove Agent SE (free with my DAW but yours will likely have one, too).

Hello, thank you very much for the warm welcome message.
I must say, it's quite surprising that a seemingly simple plugin is challenging to find for free.
There are tons of free simulations of historical compressors and super over-complicated neural reverb, but I can't add a CLAP sound on top of a snare hit! LMAO.
Back in the days when I worked with ProTools 8, I used Drumagog.

any other ideas or turnaround?

[DMG68]

I create a midi track from the audio in Cubase and then choose any drum plugin I have for the new sound. Check your DAW and see if it does that as well.

[MetalSir]

I create a midi track from the audio in Cubase and then choose any drum plugin I have for the new sound. Check your DAW and see if it does that as well.

Many tks for your reply!
I'm trying to understand if I can do it in LUNA.
Also, I never converted an audio to a MIDI file.