<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 7:05 PM Paul Davis <<a href="mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com">paul@linuxaudiosystems.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Depending on your level of technical comfort, one good path for you will be to take your recorded samples and use one of:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">     swami<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">     konfyt<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">      polyfone<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">to construct a soundfount from them.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Then fire up ardour, add a MIDI track with a-fluidsynth as the instrument. Load your balafon soundfont, and start playing.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 6:40 PM jonetsu <<a href="mailto:jonetsu@teksavvy.com" target="_blank">jonetsu@teksavvy.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 22:08:44 +0100<br>
"Andrew Fudge" <<a href="mailto:andrew@fudge-it.uk" target="_blank">andrew@fudge-it.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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> In summary, I'm looking for advice on how to create MIDI music from a<br>
> set of samples, ideally using Ardour.  I will record the samples<br>
> (African balaphon).  Then I need to load them into something.  Then<br>
> connect it to Ardour and compose in MIDI.<br>
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Linux Sampler is a free sampler.  I'm not using it though.  I use two<br>
Linux commercial products to load samples, transform them and such,<br>
Redux and Bliss.  I think they have demos, so if you're interested you<br>
can give them a try.<br>
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<a href="https://www.renoise.com/products/redux" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.renoise.com/products/redux</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.discodsp.com/bliss/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.discodsp.com/bliss/</a><br>
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Cheers.<br>
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