[Ardour-Users] How to give a sound "presentation"?

[Ferenc Wagner]

"John Emmas" <johne53 at tiscali.co.uk> writes:

> do you mean that you need to trigger sounds - but they need to be
> timed depending on the performers' actions or words?

In part, yes.  

> If so, you probably need a sampler.  I doubt that you can achieve this by
> having something that just plays continuously (or loops) in the background.
> You might be able to automate the system but it would be fraught with
> problems, probably unreliable and probably expensive.  A manually triggered
> sampler seems like the best the answer.  You could probably use MIDI to
> assign different sounds to different notes on a keyboard, which might make
> the process ergonomically simpler.
>
> I'm not familiar enough with Linux to know which are the best samplers but
> I'm sure there'll be people here who can suggest something.  Or why not take
> a trip to your local music store and ask for their advice?
>
> John
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ferenc Wagner" <wferi at niif.hu>
> To: <ardour-users at lists.ardour.org>
> Sent: 11 January 2009 02:15
> Subject: [Ardour-Users] How to give a sound "presentation"?
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was asked to help producing a play.  The play is about sounds! :)
>> I think I can achieve the desired result with Ardour, but I have to
>> accomodate timing variations by the actors.  Which means I can't pre-
>> record everything and just play that back...
>>
>> Which (preferably Linux) software do you think would be the best for
>> such a task?  I imagine having to need to push space only during the
>> play, and the software would do the necessary crossfades, play back
>> short noises or just keep looping something if left alone.
>> -- 
>> Gratefully for any idea:
>> Feri.
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