It’s definitely a “some hardware” thing as well but haven’t heard it with WinXP or Linux on anything. Laptops generally have cheap keyboards with a very low rollover so it may in some way be related to how they are often interfaced.
Carlo: Have you got a USB keyboard? Do we know if anybody who has this trouble has tried with an external keyboard? Not that I can see how it could make a difference (as the original is still connected too.) Pretty sure that so far we have seen no cure though…
Laptop, doesn’t state OS:
This seems to be the definiative thread where Taktik says he suffers from it himself on his netbook and thus is very aware of the problem but still been unable to fix:
Either remap to another key. [A] or [`] seem to be peoples’ favourites.
Or use some key remapping software to map the Caps Lock to another key, which you then assign to Note Off.