[Ardour-Users] MIDI with Ardour, advice please

[Andrew Fudge]

In summary, I'm looking for advice on how to create MIDI music from a set of
samples, ideally using Ardour. I will record the samples (African
balaphon). Then I need to load them into something. Then connect it to
Ardour and compose in MIDI.

My setup is simple - I'm fairly newbie in all this. Ardour under Ubuntu
Studio using Alsa rather than Jack. Core I7 processor / desktop. Focusrite
2i4 (older version). When a note occurs, I don't want it to chop off the
tail of any other notes already in progress. If the samples are played by
software/Ardour, that's fine. If it's better to have dedicated hardware
playing them, I don't want anything too expensive, something costing the
order of a 2i4 would be ok.

So I'm expecting to do lots of googling / familiarisation, but hoping
someone experienced can give me some pointers / roadmap to get me going.
Thanks.

[jonetsu]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 22:08:44 +0100

Post by Andrew Fudge
In summary, I'm looking for advice on how to create MIDI music from a
set of samples, ideally using Ardour. I will record the samples
(African balaphon). Then I need to load them into something. Then
connect it to Ardour and compose in MIDI.

Linux Sampler is a free sampler. I'm not using it though. I use two
Linux commercial products to load samples, transform them and such,
Redux and Bliss. I think they have demos, so if you're interested you
can give them a try.

https://www.renoise.com/products/redux

https://www.discodsp.com/bliss/

Cheers.

[Paul Davis]

Depending on your level of technical comfort, one good path for you will be
to take your recorded samples and use one of:

swami
konfyt
polyfone

to construct a soundfount from them.

Then fire up ardour, add a MIDI track with a-fluidsynth as the instrument.
Load your balafon soundfont, and start playing.

Post by jonetsu
On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 22:08:44 +0100

Post by Andrew Fudge
In summary, I'm looking for advice on how to create MIDI music from a
set of samples, ideally using Ardour. I will record the samples
(African balaphon). Then I need to load them into something. Then
connect it to Ardour and compose in MIDI.

Linux Sampler is a free sampler. I'm not using it though. I use two
Linux commercial products to load samples, transform them and such,
Redux and Bliss. I think they have demos, so if you're interested you
can give them a try.
https://www.renoise.com/products/redux
https://www.discodsp.com/bliss/
Cheers.
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[Paul Davis]

It was just pointed out to me that konfyt *loads* soundfonts, but cannot
create them. Swami is also much older than Polyfone, so as x42 recommended
on the forums, that's probably the best place to start down the "make your
own soundfont" path.

Post by Paul Davis
Depending on your level of technical comfort, one good path for you will
swami
konfyt
polyfone
to construct a soundfount from them.
Then fire up ardour, add a MIDI track with a-fluidsynth as the instrument.
Load your balafon soundfont, and start playing.

Post by jonetsu
On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 22:08:44 +0100

Post by Andrew Fudge
In summary, I'm looking for advice on how to create MIDI music from a
set of samples, ideally using Ardour. I will record the samples
(African balaphon). Then I need to load them into something. Then
connect it to Ardour and compose in MIDI.

Linux Sampler is a free sampler. I'm not using it though. I use two
Linux commercial products to load samples, transform them and such,
Redux and Bliss. I think they have demos, so if you're interested you
can give them a try.
https://www.renoise.com/products/redux
https://www.discodsp.com/bliss/
Cheers.
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