LinuxMusicians

winehq-devel 2.1 Earlier versions of wine might not work. I did try Kontakt with wine 1.6 on Ubuntu Studio 14.04 and it would not work. This is the most likely reason, then, I'll have to try a more recent version. Thanks for the heads up! Knowing that there are conditions under which Kontakt can be...

If anyone is interested in how I got the 5.6 version of Kontakt player to work then I could not replicate your success with either Kontakt 5.5.2 or 5.6.6 on Ubuntu Xenial + KXStudio. Are you able to run Kontakt standalone? Which wine version are you using (KXStudio provides 1.8 )? Which Windows ver...

Great, thanks!

Anyway it would be nice to be able to keep 5.5 around for a while, if you took it down, until 5.6 kinks have been ironed out.

I can confirm this. Furthermore, it appears 5.6 has some issue with midi note off messages. I've tried to roll back to 5.5 but it doesn't seem to be available in the repo, at least apt can't find it in the cache, but my apt-fu is admittedly lousy.

For the sake of posterity, a problem like this on a Samson Carbon 61 has been found to be caused by faulty firmware. Be sure you update it to the latest version which fixes this issue.