Hi Jordan, I can use kontakt with wine (wineasio, etc), but it is difficult to achieve low latency for playing with a midi keyboard without pops and clicks. I have even tried wine with the wine-rt patch. Could you provide some information about your system (cpu, memory, audio interface) and jack and kontakt/wine configuration? Also, when using larger buffers and driving kontakt from a software sequencer, e.g. tuxguitar, I usually get distortions when playing chords. I use a dual core Athlon 5200+, 3gb ram, M-Audio 2496 with 32 bit real time kernel PAE (AV Linux 4). I mostly run kontakt as a VST plugin with vsthost, since I cannot "see" the midi inputs when running as standalone. Could you also post which instruments/libraries/NI plugins you use and work fine? Thanks, Yiannis -- View this message in context: http://wine.1045685.n5.nabble.com/Kontakt-doesn-t-respond-to-Akai-USB-MIDI-Keyboard-tp2640128p2805914.html Sent from the Wine - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.