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Kontakt 7 very very long to launch
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September 23 cant come fast enough(was that a pun?..or maybe irony?)
I just schedule coffee breaks now when I know I need/want to load a K7 instance.
#FasterLoading
Hoping for the best on K8!
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Why should we pay again for a product that's becoming worse and worse, with spam, bloatware and ****** loading times?
It's just not sensible.
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Well. You don’t have to upgrade if you don’t want to. Or if feel like the loading time will impact you.
Cost to you. $0.00
VP
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Well. NI didn't have to make Kontakt 7 so much worse as 6, and have us pay for what feels like a downgrade in stead of upgrade. NI could have fixed 7 in stead of making people pay again. NI could stop forcing developers of good virtual instruments to embrace Kontakt 7 and 8, which forces people to upgrade as well.
But since NI was bought by investors that don't care much about music, that won't happen, will it?-1 -
Agreed. But everyone experience things differently.
For example over here Kontakt 7.10.6 opens here in less than 5 seconds. I have nothing to complain about and look forward to v8.But at the end of the day - no one is forcing anyone to do anything.
You can stay on K6 or K7 and ignore all the K8 noise (if there is any). I guess we will find out soon :)
VP
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I don't understand why you trivialize the experience of all the people complaining here, just because you yourself have no problem.
"No-one is forcing anyone" - people feel scammed because they payed good money for a product that doesn't work as it should, after which they've been led on with promises of improvement, without results.
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Just as I do not understand the doom and gloom in here over a product that has not yet been released.
How do you know that K8 won’t work as it should?I am not going to apologize for the fact that my software runs fine and that I have no real issues.
Interesting that you see “software working” as trivial. I see it as kinda normal and expected.
And you are still in charge of your own wallet. You are making this sound like NI is forcing you to buy this or anything. They are not.
Maybe swing by after you buy K8 and give us an honest review.
I and many others will always be interested in what works and what does not.
VP
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Have you seen the title of this discussion?
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Of course I have.
Some have issues and some don’t.
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So for those interested, Kontakt 8 is still slow if you were hoping for a miracle upgrade to Kontakt 7, however the loading time's are significantly less for me, it may be different for you, for me Kontakt 7 took over 2minutes to load sometimes, Kontakt 6 was instant, the new Kontakt 8 clocks in at 30 seconds, I have ran it multiple times in standalone.
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Kontakt 8 is the same slow for me as Kontakt 7.
Since I am not really interested in loops and other stuff like that, new features are worthless for me.
I expected improvement in loading time. Kontakt 6 was fine. Kontakt 7 & 8 are slow.
The same about Massive X, but… who cares since for NI "10 seconds of loading time is perfectly fine".
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Thanks for the stats. Good to know.
VP
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Kontakt 8 is the slowest versions I've run. It takes a long time to open and to load many of my instruments. This is on a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 12-Core system with 64GB RAM. I'm on Windows 10 and I'm wondering if it's optimized for Windows 11.
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Windows 10 still runs faster than Win 11 (regardless of CPU or anything else) so no need to wonder about that.
I saw the greatest increase in Kontakt (AND Komplete Kontrol) speed - when I rebuilt my machine and specifically reduced my plugin stash down to about 400 from 1200 a few months back.
I only allow Kontakt and Komplete Kontrol (v2.9.6) to "see" NKS compatible VST3 plugins - and Kontakt 7 opens in 4 seconds here right now. Not really a concern.
Also (if you are on Windows) make sure that Windows Defender never looks at the entire Native Instruments folder on your hard drive and does zero real time scanning. This one catches a lot of people.
That one easily shaved a minute or two of my load times prior to rebuilding my DAW.
VP
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I experienced the same, the Plugin opening time reacts to the amount of plugins, how do you have reduced the plugins amount Komplete Kontrol and Kontakt are only NKS Plugins Scanning ?
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