SO I have a weird issue that just started happening within the last couple months. I'm running kontakt standalone without a daw on windows 11 to help when I'm doing school online. As long as kontakt is on the screen, the audio is fine.
The moment it is minimized, or ends up behind another window, the audio starts crackling/distorting. I can fix this by clicking on it in the task bar so that it is on the screen again, and the audio clears up after about 10 seconds. This means that if I'm looking at my school in chrome, and it's behind chrome, I can't play the piano VST (the grandeur) that I have loaded unless I click on it first and wait 10 seconds.
Does anyone have a fix for this? It's really annoying to have to constantly flip back and forth between chrome and kontakt while I'm studying. No other app has this problem. I suspect that windows 11 might be doing something like lowering the priority while it's in the background, but I can't find anything online to either prevent it from doing that, but also other apps don't seem to have this problem.