yes kontakt player does work under wine I had problems with connecting midi doing it that way though. I am able to perform on my keyboard using festige and the kontakt vst plugin (part of the player) On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Aiyumi Moriya <aiyumi.br@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2014-05-26 1:30 GMT-03:00, Danni Coy <danni.coy@xxxxxxxxx>: >> I have had some luck with Kontact and festige > > Really? :D That got my hopes up. > > Does the free Kontakt 5 Player also work under Wine? There's this > violin sample library that I'm interested for quite a while now: > > http://embertone.com/instruments/friedlanderviolin.php > > It is a solo violin library, but it also has an "ensemble" mode. I > really liked the sound... But It runs on Kontakt Player. I googled > about Kontakt 5 Player on Linux/Wine and didn't find anything useful. > Also, from what I understood from some reading, it seems to use a > software called Continuata for watermarking and downloading the > library. I've never heard of it before - I'm a beginner in the area of > (proprietary) sample libraries -, but from the forum posts I read, it > seems to require the user to install a "Continuata utility program" > that downloads and extracts the library. The posts I read were this > one: > > http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5448245 > > and the one directly below it. > > But I googled about it too, and found a post about someone downloading > (not specifically this sample library) normally via the browser > without using the Continuata thing. > > http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=376934 > > Does that mean it isn't required, and only the developers need to use > it to watermark/upload or something? If it's really required, any idea > if that works under Wine? > > The library is on sale right now, costing $99 USD until June 15th > (before, it was $110), and I'm seriously considering buying it. I just > would like some confirmation if it can work under Wine, even if JACK > doesn't work and I have to use an external hardware recorder to > capture the speaker outputs or something. :P > > Thank you to anyone that chimes in! :) > > > -- > ____________________ > > Blog: http://aiyumi.warpstar.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
