<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">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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