is there a nice clean simple lightweight way to assign pc keyboard keys sounds?

anyone know a simple lightweight way to assign sounds to keys in linux?

like so your keyboard can be played like an instrument...



i'd rather not do it through the window manager's key configurations, assigning single key shortcuts to audio samples, since i dont want it on all the time, and having two wm configs to toggle between could just get messy, and limits it to that wm, until you build it all from scratch again for another wm.


or even if there isnt a simple lightweight way... what audio/midi software lets you assign samples/notes/etc to keys.

(i tried searching for quite a while, but it was obvious i was struggling to find the terms that werent so genereic and with multiple meanings, that just get all the wrong kinds of things)

I don't know what operating system your using, but if you are using Ubuntu Linux, then you can install Virtual Midi Keyboard from the Ubuntu software center or there is a program from dotdeb.com which you can use the ctrl key, the 0 key and the . key to make sounds.