Kontakt 7 very very long to launch

Wow Blakus said that?

I can only judge based on my experience with Kontakt and Komplete Kontrol and I admittedly don't have projects that large. My response was really to all of the people complaining about the NI development staff and who I know are most likely not working on any projects more complex than mine, yet are most likely the ones that can't seem to figure out how to tune their own computers to work efficiently.

What I do know because my entire career was in commercial software development, and those aren't just a few people involved. It's made up of various teams based on the product we were assigned to, and I've seen nothing that would indicate to me the NI product teams are doing anything less effective or efficient at this point than what I would expect to see in a professional software development effort. I will grant that it didn't appear to be that way necessarily a year or so back when these new releases started coming out, but much of that seems to be corrected at this point. That's why I find it so ironic when people post simply to bash the development team and I admit I have a tendency to bite back coming from the background I come from and seeing what I see.

In terms of K6 being faster than K7 that doesn't surprise me. K7, by definition, is moving into the more expansive area of standards in order to stay relevant as the whole community of vendors adopt these standards. By definition that means more capabilities and probably less efficiency in some operations until they understand the better and more efficient ways to do these things. But your choices are simple. You can choose to stay with the old architecture and be left out of the newer, more robust capabilities or kludge something together that might work in your particular situation but not be supported by a single source vendor.

In terms of large scale music productions I have watched a few documentaries on such things and I understand that process requires a much more detailed approach in managing the score especially when using virtual instruments. From that I derive, were I to approach it, I'd need to make a process such that I could convert the stable MIDI tracks to audio to manage the number of active virtual instruments in use at one time that are focused on the section I'm working in.

But that's true of almost any complex application of software whether it's video production or CAD or even complex multi-layered Excel spreadsheets for a Fortune 500 company.

I highly suspect that there was never a sprint or a project phase that addressed tech debt. Nor will there ever be.

Where exactly do you have audio buffer size settings in Kontakt when running as VST3 plugin?

Not working for me, or I havent' noticed the difference. I doubt x3D version would be better because of lots of DSP effects.

Well…Kontakt 8 is annouced. Lets see what happens.

Kontakt 6 - 4 seconds

Kontakt 7 - 10 seconds

Kontakt 8… 20 seconds?

Do not expect any miracles, they do not focus on loading speed, but on new features.