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

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