Kontakt 7 so loooooong to initialize

jumag974

Hi,

For months now, Kontakt 7 is a pain to use, as it takes ages (like 2 or 3 minutes) to initialize. This is not only for first launch ; Kontakt is goofy every time I'd like to access the plugin GUI in the same session or if I jump from on VSTi to another.

I've managed to improve loading time by disabling Multicore CPU support in the standalone application.
In plugin mode, it helps a little but it's still unacceptably long.

I'd like to have information about the consequences of this mono-core behaviour. Am I supposed to load less instruments in a rack and use multiple instances of Kontakt instead?

FYI I've also set graphics mode to "best performance" but it doesn't seems to help.

Thanks for your feedback,
Julien

Computer: MacBook Pro M1 Pro ; 16 GB RAM
Kontakt 7.10.5 (latest version) ; librairies stored on external SSD
DAW: Studio One 6.5.0 ; Kontakt plugin loaded as VST3

DunedinDragon

I'm on Windows so I don't know if this applies in your world, but I found a LOT of my problems with long loading and download times related to real time virus protection schemes. After I figured out how to turn those off when I'm working with NI libraries and DAWs, my response times were cut by more than half. I don't leave them off, it's only when working in my studio environment.

I don't know if there's something similar in your Mac environment, but it may be something to look at.

Nusonik

I have noticed that if I load a single empty Kontakt instance before opening a [Cubase] project. loading time seems to improve on subsequent tracks loading Kontakt instances. Maybe some common Kontakt settings are initially loaded into a memory cache which makes the subsequent loads quicker.

jumag974

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback.

I took the time to test DunedinDragon theory about the antivirus protection. Unfortunately, this doesn't improve Kontakt's launch time.

It is important to say that Kontakt 7 used to work fine before the 7.9/7.10 goofiness everyone's talking about on these forums.