I bought this keyboard controller based on the advert stating it was class compliant, plug and play, Linux compatible. However, I found that it starts up with a firmware update message, and apart from Note On, Note Off, Channel Pressure, none of the controls work, not even the ones designated for manually setting the others. On conacting nektar for support, it took over 2 days for them to tell me that I had to install the firmware. WTF! I've never heard of any hardware being effectively dead until you install firmware. What's more, so much for supporting Linux, the software to install the firmware is Windows or MacOs - nothing else. I tried using Wine to get this done, but the software reports that it can't find the keyboard. This is on Devuan Boewulf, which carries Wine V4.0. I also tried grabbing a more recent version of Wine from wineHQ, but devuan refused reporting an uninstallable dependency. I'm very reluctant to try to install a VM, I'm running out of storage space, and this is a working machine - I can't risk messing it about too much. If it weren't for the pandemic lockdown situation I might have been able to go to a Windows using friend for help, but this is out of the question for the forseeable future. Any suggestions? -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk http://yoshimi.github.io Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
