Is there a good linux program for playing sound effects cues, in my
case to accompany a theater style performance?
The "ideal" solution would be able to do something like this:
* play samples almost instantaneously when I push the right button
(some sort of pre-reading the begining?)
* sample length allowed to be arbitrarily long (e.g. music, background
sounds.)
* multiple samples playable at one time, so you can have background
sound(s) continue playing while playing another sound --
e.g. surf/waves sounding in the background, and a ships bell or
whistle plays over it.
* Probably some different modes for sample playing:
* On key down, sample plays through to end
* On key down, sample plays until key up
* On key down, sample plays until next key down (toggle play/stop)
* probably something else I haven't thought of.
* Each sample would have individually adjustable volume -- maybe while
you're playing that background sound, you want to adjust it's level
w/o affecting any other samples you might play.
* Controlable from the computer keyboard, or an external midi device
(e.g. my Behringer BCR2000)
* Move through a list of cues, with notes about when each sound should
happen (e.g. I would type in the line that preceeds the sound...)
The more I write this, the more a midi sampler or drum machine sort of
program seems like it'd be a start, except maybe for the individual
control of sample volume and cue notes.
Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Steve Wahl steve(a)pro-ns.net