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! -- Steve Wahl steve(a)pro-ns.net