[linux-audio-user] Acid clone for Linux?

[Juhana Sadeharju]

Hello. I have read the recent discussion on "one sample per track"
arrangers such as Future Beat and Acid Music.

I have tested Future Beat which is quite a limited software.
Future Beat is an application where each track has one sample
looped infinitely and where user may uncover the audio by
drawing regions on the tracks. User cannot relocate the starts
of the samples as in Acid. Sample starts at 0 and is repeated,
as far as I know, at the next beat mark after the sample has
ended.

That kind of software is good because I don't have to worry about
the sync between all samples. But there is a problem: I'm not
sure what really is the correct sync between all the samples.

I have taken samples from "www.mountedbythegods.com", at download
page. Look at the partial file listing below: does jungle_1 go
wrong with respect to drum_1? See figure:

  drum_1    |-------|-------
  jungle_1  |-----|-----|-----

Or would the correct arrangement be following?

  drum_1    |-------|-------
  jungle_1  |-----  |-----

drum_1.wav:   16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz    708652	 4.0173 (time in seconds)
drum_2.wav:   16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz    352812	 2.0000
drum_3.wav:   16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz    707244	 4.0093
drum_4.wav:   16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz    351852	 1.9946
drum_5.wav:   16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz    706348	 4.0042
drum_6.wav:   16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz    325704	 1.8463
e_drum.wav:   16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz    325704	 1.8463
jungle_1.wav: 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz    529244	 3.0002
jungle_2.wav: 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz   1411244	 8.0002
rattle_1.wav: 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz    605580	 3.4329
rattle_2.wav: 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz    610348	 3.4600
rattle_3.wav: 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz    303788	 1.7221
rattle_4.wav: 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz    352844	 2.0002

The Mounted by the Gods sample set has 55 samples. A few of them
are not loops but individual sounds which should be played with
a software sampler.

So, what Linux arranger I could use for assembling the remixes?
It can be a full blown multitrack editor but it has to have
some support for handling the beat oriented samples.

What software sampler would allow me to synthesize with
samples such as "brr_2.wav" and "digeri_2.wav"? I don't have
MIDI keyboard but a MIDI sampler is okay as well if there is
a way to send MIDI data from a sequencer to the sampler.

What sequencer I could use?

Please let me know if you try out the Mounted by the Gods samples
and loops. I would like to hear if you arrange something which is
better than I ever could do. (Check also www.yello.ch for their
Soundstation -- another sample set.)

Best regards,

Juhana