This might help someone if they find themselves in a similarly frustrated state.
Nvidia G-SYNC and Kontakt 7 and hugely annoying audio drop-outs.
This ‘was’ a graphic card setting issue.
I’m using Windows 11 and Kontakt-7
I was having some severe audio drop-out issues when K7 was the highlighted app.
But it worked flawlessly as a background app, for example whilst using the internet at the same time.
However: As soon as K7 returned to being the highlighted app – the drop-outs also returned immediately.
My Laptop is blessed with an Nvidia card, and G-SYNC by default was set to on.
All of the above audio dropouts have disappeared since turning G-SYNC off.