Kontakt 7 is causing high CPU usage on Mac Studio M1 Max

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  • nightjar
    nightjar Member Posts: 1,304 Guru
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    Hang on for hopefully just another day or two... 🙂

  • Intersolar
    Intersolar Member Posts: 6 Member
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    Hey guys,

    sorry for the long absence here. I had a lot of things going on with the Apple Support and more but, I found a solution for my problem:

    Return, Refund and switch to a Windows PC!

    And here i like to tell you why:

    The thing i encountered so far and I talked with them (Apple) openly about it, is the core parking. Don´t ask me why not every Mac is infected from this symptom but there are some M1-Macs which have serious trouble.

    It´s a Efficency and Performance core problem or more a system adress problem and i think the solution is, to prevent the cores from parking (but not for the closed eco system of Apple)!

    Why do I think this way?

    After the return i bought a PC with a new i7 13700 K also with P and E cores and what a surprise the same things (not so heavy as on the MAC but still noticeable) happened!

    I read a lot about the architecture of the new generation of CPUs and also found some tools to test it on my PC to get rid of the problem and indeed I solved the problem with an app that prevent the cores from parking!

    Since this i don´t have any troubles, beside the conversion from my loved Mac OS to Win OS (and yes, I don´t like it, but...that´s the price I have to pay) finally I´m happy!

    ...And please don´t talk about the "Oh why do you switched to PC" and the "oh Mac is the best you can get" thing or that you don´t have or had any problems...I´m happy for you but that´s nothing what I had to deal with!

    Please understand:

    If you´re unable to make music for one year and also that the stop came in a high creative phase with much output...which led to a complete absence from making music for one year then i guess you would probably also switch! After this year of not making music it´s still hard to find my way back into it!

  • SaschaFranck
    SaschaFranck Member Posts: 78 Helper
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    Hasn't got anything to do with the libraries. The same libraries perform considerably worse under Kontakt 7 (Player in my case) than under Kontakt 6 (full). UI responsiveness is just completely horrible, patch loading is slower and once things are loaded, performance is worse, too.

    Same is true for Reaktor. Same ensembles perform WAY worse on silicon Macs than on older machines.

    All this on a brandnew M3 Macbook Air (24GB RAM, 2TB SSD).

    NIs plugins are the only ones I have discovered so far that are doing so bad.

  • SaschaFranck
    SaschaFranck Member Posts: 78 Helper
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    Oh, I just noticed this is a comparatively old thread. Well then, the problem still exists - so nobody seems to care about these things any longer.

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