Reloading sounds after away periods

Sej22 · 2025-06-30T22:00:15+00:00

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When using my Native Instruments sounds, either through my DAW (Logic) or the dedicated Komplete Kontrol or Kontakt 8 apps, if I have a break for a few moments, the sounds appear to need reloading?

To make it clearer; I'm playing and everything sounds great, I take a break for a minute or two, come back I play and the sound won't play properly for a few seconds, before working as normal.

When I'm at home and trying to record/rehearse, that's fine and it doesn't bother me. However, I'm trying to use my Native sounds for live uses and if I don't play for a few moments and then I have to use it, it can be very problematic.

Any advice?

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Sej22

Thanks for your reply! It's hard to tell how long, but I guess minutes, sometimes less. I've tried those sleep settings, including the put hard disks to sleep and that hasn't fixed the issue.

Kontakt and all other audio related apps have full disk access.

I'm running MacOS Ventura 13.6.6.

I made a quick screen recording, hopefully you'll hear it cutting out before playing 'smoothly'.

Screen Recording 2025-07-02 at 18.06.10.mov.zip

Sej22

I've gone through the How Can I Optimize the Performance of Kontakt? and I've done everything that I could/understood, the memory server section didn't quite make sense to me and I didn't have all the options on that menu available to me. Not sure if that's relevant at all?

My engine and loading screens were identical to yours (although the volume default was different and I actually prefer it on 0, so thank you for that!):

I should say, I primarily use Komplete Kontrol due to me owning an S61, but the issue is across Kontakt 8 and Komplete Kontrol.

Jeremy_NI

@Sej22 Does this also happen if you open Kontakt or Komplete Kontrol in standalone?

Are you syncing any content, projects or samples with a cloud service?

If you check in Kontakt standalone, is there anything unusual in this area when the issue occurs?

Would it be possible for you to make a short video of the issue showing Kontakt's GUI when it happens? And then post it here? Please choose the Classic view in Kontakt and choose Monitor and then Engine:

Please post a video of that when you experience the issue, it will be super helpful!

Where are your libraries installed? On an external hard drive? what is the format? If you move/relocate one of the libraries to your system drive and you load this library, do you experience the same issue?

Jeremy_NI

What do you mean by a few moments? Minutes, hours? What are yor settings for power? Please check in your system preferences → Power or Battery, Is the Prevent Automatic sleeping on power adapter when the display is off ticked or unticked? What about the Put hard disks to sleep when possible, if you set it to never, does that improve the situation?

Do Logic and Kontakt and your other audio apps all have full disk access? How to Enable Full Disk Access on macOS

If you're on Sequoia, there are a couple of extra steps: How to grant audio apps access to your local network on macOS 15 Sequoia

Jeremy_NI

Can you try the following? How Can I Optimize the Performance of Kontakt?

Please also share a screenshot of the preferences/options of Kontakt for Engine and Loading?

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