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Samplers
Software samplers

This metapackage will install free software samplers.

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Composite
Live performance sequencer
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Composite is a software application/system for real-time, in-performance sequencing, sampling, and looping. It has a strong emphasis on the needs of live performance improvisation. It is built around the Tritium audio engine, which also includes LV2 plugins.

This package contains the Composite Sampler Plugin (LV2) and the main GUI (composite-gui).

Drumkv1
old-school drum-kit sampler - standalone
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drumkv1 is an old-school all-digital drum-kit sampler synthesizer with stereo effects. It is provided in both forms of a LV2 plugin and a pure stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI input support.

This package provides the standalone app.

Elektroid
Sample and MIDI device manager
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Elektroid is a sample and MIDI device manager.

With Elektroid you can easily upload and download audio files and manage different types of data on different MIDI devices, such as presets, projects or tunings.

It can also be used to send and receive SysEx MIDI files.

This package provides both the GUI and CLI application of Elektroid.

Gigedit
instrument editor for Gigasampler files
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gigedit is an instrument editor allowing to modify existing Gigasampler files, as well as creating new ones from scratch. The GUI is based on the GTK+ (gtkmm) toolkit. Even though it is created as a subproject of the LinuxSampler project, it is currently a completely independent stand-alone editor.

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Petri-foo
MIDI controllable audio sampler - successor of specimen
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A simple but very useful midi controlled sampler for ALSA/JACK featuring:

  • 64 notes of polyphony, spread across up to 64 patches.
  • fast, high quality pitch scaling, linear ADSR volume envelopes.
  • low pass filter with resonance; a variety of direction-independent.
  • playback modes and zoomable sample editor for loop and play points.

Petri-Foo is a fork of the Specimen Sampler project.

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Samplv1
polyphonic sampler synthesizer - standalone
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samplv1 is an old-school all-digital polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo effects.

Although other samplers like specimen provide more features, one could find samplv1 much easier and accessible. Plus, it is provided in both forms of a JACK stand-alone client and a LV2 plugin.

This package provides the standalone app.

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Giada
Hardcore Loop Machine
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free, minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians. Pick up your channel, fill it with samples or MIDI events and start the show by using this tiny piece of software as a loop machine, drum machine, sequencer, live sampler or yet as a plugin/effect host.

Giada aims to be a compact and portable virtual device for production use and live sets.

Pt2-clone
Music tracker clone of ProTracker 2 for modern computers
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Multi-platform clone of the classic music making software "ProTracker" (version 2) from the Commodore Amiga days. Aims to work exactly like you remember it, with added features and fixes.

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Swami
MIDI instrument editor application
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Swami (Sampled Waveforms And Musical Instruments) is an application for editing and managing MIDI instruments, such as SoundFont files. A programming API is also provided for integration with other applications.

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