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Yes, you do that.

I think I will try to hack something together in Python in the meantime.

What currently irritates me is that the transpose button on my main keyboard (Roland HP 1300e) is broken and I can't access some keyswitches and notes... drive me nuts.

Yeah, I guess that puts a stop to that. Paul Davis mentioned that Ardour 3 is going to have Keykit-like functionality for MIDI, but I don't know when that's getting released. Other than that, I don't know of anything. Sorry. That will be extremely cool. I plan to use Ardour 3 as my main sequencer w...

Looks interesting, but this is a show stopper: 12. How well does it work on Linux? KeyKit works on Linux, but only with external MIDI devices (using the /dev/midi device driver). Internal sound devices are not supported. If Linux developers write better support for MIDI, this might change. :o Hmph.....

Do anyone know about any Linux application that let you build MIDI filters: from simple tasks like transposing the incoming notes to the more complex like automatic insertion of keyswitches (e.g. for up and down bows)?

Yes, having one solenoid for every key is to overdo it a tad if the purpose is sampling -- one will do in most cases.

Here's some inspiration for you then:

http://www.qrsmusic.com/pianomation_why.asp

(Solenoids are fun )

with freeze you mean like Kontakt does ? you play a midi file and the sampler remember which notes and layes were triggered and unloads the parts that are not needed ? what happens if a non cached note is triggered ? silence of loading from disk and thus an artefact (click, dropout) ? No, no, not a...

Per "Worra" Larsson (of Sampletekk whose Yamaha C7 have 93 velocity layers) said that he once tried a mechanical system but it made too much noise for the samples to be useful, instead, he use custom software that let him sample pianos in 2 dB steps.

To get slightly more on topic than off , what I want to see from LS... * As I've mentioned elsewhere: being able to "freeze" instruments, unload to free up RAM and reload them with just a click on a button. * An DSSI plugin version (and LV2 whenever that spec is finalized). * Ease of implementing ne...

I'm thinking about how to go about sampling that grand piano, and I'm not confident I can hit keys evenly enough to get 32 layers so consistent across the entire 88-key range without building a robot (of course, that would be cool in and of itself). That means I'd likely have to find an experienced...