[LAD] Ardour "sampler" feature?

[Philipp Überbacher]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:39:43 -0500
Devin Venable <venable.devin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't think such as feature as I'm about
> to describe exists.
> 
> I'm making lots of use of the MIDI track functionality.  I find myself
> wanting to take an audio segment, convert it to sample, and then use
> it on a midi track.  I don't believe there is a way to do this
> without the aide of an external sampler program.
> 
> My dream feature?  Click on segment, select "convert to sample" and a
> new midi track appears linked to a plugin sampler, ready to play.
> 
> -
> Devin

One workflow that maybe comes close is exporting the sample from ardour
(it *should* be reasonably easy to do) and loading it into for example
samplv1. Its more clicks than what you imagine but it might be workable.

Regards,
Philipp