Audio sampler for Ubuntu Studio?

[dfro]

I have moved from Ubuntu Edgy to a fresh install of Ubuntu Studio. What an incredible job the Ubuntu Studio team has done!! Thank you!! Ardour 2 is working great. Hydrogen rocks! Ubuntu Studio also looks great.

But, I would like to find an audio sampler to use in Ubuntu Studio.

I have installed specimen and it is working. The Roland hardware sampler I have allows you to layer samples on a single note. Different note velocities will trigger different layers of the sample on a single note. In specimen, it is definitely easy to put two samples on the same note, but I cannot figure out if specimen allows one to create a velocity window for a particular sample.

I see that the hydrogen drum machine allows a person to create layered samples, but can I trigger it from a midi piano keyboard? Can I customize where I place each sound on a midi keyboard in hydrogen?
I would like to do my drum parts in Rosegarden with a midi keyboard, if that is possible.

I have also installed qsampler and I found a deb package of linuxsampler designed to work on ubuntu. qsample will launch, but I cannot get it to work. I am sure a bunch of packages it needs are missing. When I try to load a .gig file, I get an error message: "Channel 0, Some settings could not be made, sorry". Something like that. The device connection boxes are greyed out also. When qsample launches, it does not show up in the jack connections window. I cannot find any documentation on linuxsampler or qsample. There are a lot of free gigasampler files on the net, that I would really enjoy trying. Also, I have not been able to successfully compile gigedit either.

I would be interrested if anyone has gotten the gigedit, qsampler, linuxsampler software working in Ubuntu Studio.

Thanks for any advice or comments.

[Sandsound]

Yes indeed... UbuntuStudio ROCKS :-)

Sadly enough I have not found a sampler I could use in Linux, Hydrogen is very cool but without mute-groups (for closing the open hi-hat when a closed is struck), I can't use it.
But then I found dssi-vst, it's the perfect solution for me. There are tons of free vst instruments out there, and most of them work in Linux.

For drums i use LoopAZoid. Last time I was in a studio, I recorded some singlestroke samples of my drumkit that I use, but theres also many free samples on the web like Manytones etc.

http://odosynths.com also have some cool-looking stuff, but I havent had the time to try it yet.

http://ladspavst.linuxaudio.org/ have a huge list of vst instruments that run on Linux.

I know that vst is a Steinberg thing, and thou I would love to free myself from closed standards, my main goal is making music, and at least I'm not doing it on a microcrap os anymore ;-)