Kontak 7 slow/crashing in Repear 7 on plugin window close

reggie
reggie Member Posts: 20 Member
edited May 5 in Kontakt

Hi all,

I'm finding Kontakt 7 is frequently hanging when opening/closing plug-in windows (usually when closing). Most of the time the Reaper resumes after 20s-1 minute, but sometimes it's crashing Reaper completely. I recently upgraded from Windows 10-11, so it could be that, but I think I was having issues before that. Appreciate any help. Using latest version of Reaper (7.38) and latest version of Kontakt 7 (7.10.7).

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  • PoorFellow
    PoorFellow Moderator Posts: 6,670 mod
    Answer ✓
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/225063#Comment_225063

    Are you by any chance using any folders that is synced with cloud drives or network drives , in particular that is also used by your music apps and plugins ?

  • reggie
    reggie Member Posts: 20 Member
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    Thanks for the reply @PoorFellow - I'd managed to find the solution before reading your reply but you're essentially right. I found some mentions of network drives causing similar lag issues on the Reaper forums and here and sure enough, once I unmapped my network drive, the problem's gone. I feel this is a fault of Kontakt so I'll submit a bug report. Thanks again.

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  • reggie
    reggie Member Posts: 20 Member

    UPDATE - I have deduced that issue only occurs when connected to the internet. When I unplug the ethernet cable, I can happily open/close windows with virtually no lag (only the usual delays that I tend to expect with NI plugins - ie: not as snappy as others). I guess I can just work with no internet (perhaps no bad thing!) but would be great if there was a fix.

  • PoorFellow
    PoorFellow Moderator Posts: 6,670 mod
    Answer ✓
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/225063#Comment_225063

    Are you by any chance using any folders that is synced with cloud drives or network drives , in particular that is also used by your music apps and plugins ?

  • reggie
    reggie Member Posts: 20 Member
    Answer ✓

    Thanks for the reply @PoorFellow - I'd managed to find the solution before reading your reply but you're essentially right. I found some mentions of network drives causing similar lag issues on the Reaper forums and here and sure enough, once I unmapped my network drive, the problem's gone. I feel this is a fault of Kontakt so I'll submit a bug report. Thanks again.

  • PoorFellow
    PoorFellow Moderator Posts: 6,670 mod
    edited May 7
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/225213#Comment_225213

    You are very welcome and thank you very much for the feedback and for sharing the solution.

    Yes , alas then network drives has been seen to cause more issues with Kontakt. I am not completely sure that Kontakt is the culprit itself. Though Kontakt might create some problems (not sure about what is what) then it could also at least in part be the victim of some OS functions, but it is definitely something that N.I. needs to look into.

    I'd managed to find the solution before reading your reply but you're essentially right. I found some mentions of network drives causing similar lag issues on the Reaper forums and here and sure enough, once I unmapped my network drive, the problem's gone. I feel this is a fault of Kontakt so I'll submit a bug report.

    @Jeremy_NI and @Matthew_NI , another one for your notebooks.

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