2014-06-11 9:39 GMT-03:00, Aiyumi Moriya <aiyumi.br@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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 Now I can confirm that Kontakt 5 Player and the Embertone Friedlander Violin work under Wine. > It is a solo violin library, but it also has an "ensemble" mode. It can simulate a violin section with up to 8 players. You can control the tuning and timing of each player. I had some trouble setting Kontakt up, but it was related to my screen reader (software that speaks all the text on the screen, mostly used by visually impaired people to access the computer) taking over the soundcard and ALSA. People with standard setups (I.E. almost everyone else) probably won't run into this problem. The instrument is a "Powered by Kontakt Player" library, and needs to be registered through the "Add Library" button. This button is also present on Kontakt's VST interface, but it doesn't work (it prompts you for choosing the directory where the library is installed, but gives a "No library found" error. I don't know if that also happens with the VST on Windows). You must use the standalone Kontakt to add and activate the library (you need to do it just once). After added and activated though, the instrument also appears in the VST interface and works normally. I can use it with Dssi-VST and record the output in Ecasound with no problems. The only "obstacle" in getting this library is the download. They make you use a Continuata proprietary download manager app, which didn't work properly on Wine (at least for me). With Wine set to "Windows 7" it didn't even run, while as "Windows XP", it did but the download always hung and corrupted (I resorted to Windows to download the library, the only thing I used Windows for). After some googling, I read that other sample lib developers relying on this app provide the manual download links if the customer can't use the app. It might be worth checking if Embertone does that too. -- ____________________ Blog: http://aiyumi.warpstar.net/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
