live kontakt instrument without xruns - pipe dream?

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live kontakt instrument without xruns - pipe dream?

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Hello all. I'm trying to set up a linux machine to play one or two Kontakt instruments live. it's an i7 3520M with 8Gig of ram, usb audio. Can I do this without xruns? Or is it a pipe dream? pointers to a distro or a recipie from scratch would be great. It's been a frustration of mine for a few years. I gather a kernel and the fsync stuff might be a path to success. I've got a gig in a month - that's the deadline I've set myself.

The library I want to run is https://www.orangetreesamples.com/produ ... zz-archtop

It's not huge. It'd be great to add this to my live rig while still using the stuff I love about linux. I'm just having a hard time getting performance out of wine. I know there's forks and kernel patches out there - but I'm old and starting to get bewildered and confused.

Is there anyone out there with a modest system running kontakt low latency and in decent fidelity?


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At least for me, kontakt needs bigger buffers than other plugins.

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Post by scott.thomason »

You can definitely do this. These three links should give you everything you need:

https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/system_configuration
https://codeberg.org/rtcqs/rtcqs
https://liquorix.net/
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Post by noedig »

If your system isn't yet tuned for low audio latency, start there first with the advice above or by using a pro audio dedicated distro like AVLinux.

You could experiment with a Wine standalone app and as a plugin with the different Wine plugin bridges like yabridge, Carla, etc.

Alternatively, you could try to sample the presets that you want into an SFZ instrument. You can probably get pretty far quite quick by just sampling long notes and assigning them to keys. The last bit will be harder and depend on how much of the intricacies of the original library you need.
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Post by glowrak guy »

One more thing, some people are having issues caused by pipewire in the background, so if after the above configs, if there are still issues,
you might double check your install and remove it.

I posted in your other topic about Kontakt doing better running on a single core, so that's an option.
My setup is much like yours, i7 3.4 ghz cores, but with an maudio pci soundcard, and nvidia 9400 pcie graphics card,
very well behaved for years now!
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