Hi, Welcome to the Forum smarshall !
Here are all important links:
http://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4740
-A few rules and useful forum instructions
For drum-machine VSTs you need to figure out, what controller trickers the ON/OFF signal, and! -find a way to automate that !trying to use the Steven Slate Drums 5 VST, everything has installed correctly but can't find a way to use the included grooves in a project.
The drum-machine usage in LMMS really only depends on that , everything else is functionality IN the drum-machine VST! There are no reason to spend time understanding how the VST is programmed, if you cant find a way to automate the on/off state. Thats where you need to start!
On top of that, your VST must pass the 5-point-VST-test:
https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Wo ... t_VST_test
All and all, there is quite a lot of things that need to fall into place, in order to use a drum-machine