Jordan: Thanks much for your reply! I actually tried using ALSA, but I couldn't get it to work. But since you wrote that you got it working, I went back and started rooting around in winecfg and playing with it some more. It turns out the problem was that the bit setting in the "DirectSound" pane was on 8 by default. I set it to 16 and bam, Kontakt worked! (I wonder why it would work w/ OSS @ 8 bits but not ALSA...) I also played with the sample rate. Sound with Kontakt seems to work with winecfg set to either 22050 (the default) or 44100. I notice that within Kontakt itself, it is set for a sample rate of 44100. Kontakt works either if winecfg is set to 22050 or 44100. Is there a reason to prefer one over the other? I don't know much about these things, my guess would be that they should match - the winecfg rate & the Kontakt rate - but Kontakt seems to run the same either way. I know that Jack and WineASIO are things I should use eventually, but I wanted to troubleshoot as simply as possible and get one thing to work at a time. OK, WineASIO and JACK next... I see there's also a Jack audio driver under winecfg. Why isn't that the one to use instead of ALSA if you're running Jack?? Although, I noticed that the Jack driver doesn't have any MIDI devices show up - only "wave in" and "wave out" devices. I'm just getting into this Linux Audio stuff, since you seem to know something about these things, is there a resource(s) for things Linux Audio that you can recommend? Thanks a bunch, Cosmo On Wed Aug 18 21:09 , jordan johnston sent: >On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Cosmo Lee cosmolee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Ubuntu 10.4, Wine 1.1.42, Native Instruments Kontakt 4, Akai MPK88 >> >> I've installed Kontakt (sampled musical instruments). Sound is working OK with the OSS driver, but the program doesn't respond to the USB keyboard. :- >> ( The keyboard shows up in `winecfg` under "Audio", OSS, MIDI In/Out devices. > >Why aren't you using ALSA???? you will want to expose Kontakt/wine to >the alsa driver, >snd-usb-audio. This driver is plug and play with the AKAI MPK. I own the MPK49. >OSS is sort of a dying driver, ALSA/Jack is what you will want. >Also, i am not sure if OSS even would implement midi for our devices.... > >> I checked the MIDI options for the Kontakt program and it DOES show the Akai keyboard - so the program knows the keyboard exists. I've got it set so that >> device "Midi 1" is set to "Port A". I've also tried setting to ports b,c,d, but no luck. >> >> I don't have jack or ASIO running yet as I want to troubleshoot one thing at a time. > >You will want to get both Jack running, probably jack2 (1.9.5) and the >Latest WineASIO code >compiled and installed. Kontakt works great in linux. > >> Is there something additional that needs to be done for USB MIDI keyboards to work under Wine? > >Nope, just use alsa, and select it in winecfg as your audio driver. >from there everything >should work perfect. The usb midi will work fine, just make sure your >keyboard is plugged in before you open your wine app, otherwise it may >not show up. In the end you will want to use jack for audio apps like >this, just so you know! > >I use All of my Native Instruments plugins under Linux. > >jordan
