On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:18:55 +0200 Pedro Ferreira <ilzogoiby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if anyone here has ever tried this one: > > http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/audio-kontrol-1/?page=380 > > They claim that it is supported under Linux: > > http://www.native-instruments.com/en/support/compatibility/linux/ > > And the ALSA matrix seems to confirm it: > > http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Native_Instruments > > However, i haven't found any reports from people using it for > recording. > Hello, I have a Rig Kontrol 2 from Native Instruments. It does have a driver for Alsa, and I'm happily using it with JACK. AFAIK the driver is the same for all the NI devices, snd-usb-caiaq; when I was trying to get mine to work (wasn't straightforward due to bugs in the driver which the dev has worked out, now it should be plug-play) I found in some places reports of attempts of using the Audio Kontrol 1 on linux - the NI forums I guess, I could try to fetch them out if google is not your friend. So for the audio part there should be no difficulties IMHO, and if there were the dev (which is on the alsa mailing list) is a very friendly guy and I guess he would help you. BUT: I don't know if the things (knobs, buttons etc.) on the Audio Kontrol 1 produce MIDI, however I doubt it, since the ones on my RK2 don't - they produce HID-like events though, that is it is recognized as sort of a keyboard or mouse. These can be converted in MIDI using pure data or supercollider (what I'm doing) and it works great, but it may be more of a hassle than one would like to; I wouldn't recommend it to someone who can still buy something that sends out straight midi (I bought my RK2 before moving to linux). So all in all I bet you could get it working, but probably (unless it sends out MIDI) you'd have to put together some pd patch or sc code. HTH, renato _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
