Re: Linux sampler projects, was Re: [linux-audio-user] Some music made with Linux

There is no guaranteed relative timing between two notes in GSt or LS. If you send two simultaneous MIDI events to GSt they will start when they start, just like playing two keys on the piano. They are close to each other, but they do not begin at exactly the same time. In Ardour, you can take the same two wave files as samples and place them in a track such that their relative timing is known exactly. You could, for example, play one wave file and then play the next one such that it sounded exactly right. When the first wave file finishes the second wave file will start. You will have a sample played on every clock cycle. LS and GSt will not do this. They are MIDI based and certainly there is jitter and no timing info in MIDI so you just cannot accomplish this level of control.