[LAU] Recommended near-realistic strings section generator?

Danni Coy danni.coy at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 08:13:37 UTC 2014


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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-05-26 1:30 GMT-03:00, Danni Coy <danni.coy at gmail.com>:
>> 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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