Is it normal that 'Piano Colors' is quite a bit harder on the PC to run?

I know certain 'VST's' are harder on the PC(CPU,ram,disk...). The "sessions guitarist's" are harder than many others. I only tried using 'Piano Colors' a couple times, and it may have been a coincidence, but is it known to be quite a bit harder on the PC?

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Jeremy_NI

Yes, some libraries have more samples and use more RAM, some will use effects that are heavy on the CPU. here are some tips to optimize performance on Kontakt: How Can I Optimize the Performance of Kontakt?

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Guitarbinge86

Awesome, thanks for sending the link and the help. That's what I was thinking. Luckily w/ how my PC is built and optimized, I'm able to keep the CPU & Ram always quite low; even during a VST boot-up. It's just the disk that jumps up to 100% sometimes, but at least it's on some VST's and only for a split-second... One day, I'll get a better drive. The current one is an SSD, connected by 'SATA'. For now, I hope it lasts a long time b/c I've put so many hours into installing all my content, samples, projects and pointing everything to that drive.... I need to think of the best way to back up that drive. The software's and VST's (not their content) are all on the other, main C: drive, which is an SSD NVME 2.0 connected to the motherboard.

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