If memory serves me correctly I did have difficulty installing it from
the Linux side. I did have to do the initial installation in windows.
This might not be a limitation of the free player though
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Danni Coy <danni.coy@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> 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@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>> 2014-05-26 1:30 GMT-03:00, Danni Coy <danni.coy@email-addr-hidden>:
>>> 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! :)
>>
>>
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