Has any one else experienced the white noise blast in Kontakt - Kinetic Metal?

I had an old Kontakt 3 instrument that did it. Maybe 'Rock Kit'. I think I narrowed it down to a Convolution Reverb.

ok, for those interested, I discovered the issue is produced by the exceed of the max voices (when you play too much notes at the same time).

I did contact the support. I hope they will be able to fix it...

For those interested, I noticed something yesterday (reminding that I couldn't reproduce the issue with only Kinetic Metal in a project : it was only in my Live set).

The blast of noise was happening in the following situation :

• Using a pretty heavy Ableton Live set with no latency compensation enabled (for various reasons I don't need to explain here)
• using after Kinetic Metal a compressor (DMG Audio TrackComp) side-chained to another track
• each track was having different plugin chain, so different latency

I had the idea to remove the compressor, and I couldn't reproduce the issue, while just 10mn before, I could reproduce it easily : in the previous situation, playing a lot of notes was after a dozen seconds conducing to the blast of noise.

Of course, I need to test it more scientifically (I was rehearsing, so I couldn't experiment more).

For those that know more than me about plugins and Daws, could it be the reason of the issue ?

I must clarify that I use TrackComp on almost all my tracks, very often side-chained to another track, and I never experienced such an issue. I also never experienced such an issue with Kontakt (I'm speaking about the blast of noise) : it happens only in this specific situation, and not in the various sets where I use Kontakt and/or Kinetic metal a little bit everywhere (I use quite a lot this library in my music).

This issue has been around for a long time. The general consensus is that no one can really find a go to cause for those it happens to.

I use Cerberos Audio's utility, Ice9 as the last insert on the main output in Logic. Its never happened to me and judging by what others have said, I dont want it to.

Yeah I know its not only Logic, but the same loud blast has been experienced for varied reasons on various systems for a long time. Nobody has seemed to pin anything definite down. Whatever the cause it sure is no joke having that blast your hearing out of existence... hence why I use Ice9.

In general. Dangerous indeed. We all rely on our ears in music production - thats why I commented.

I know there was a thread on the old NI forum and I think I may have saved a copy but not sure. I'll dig into my system sometime and see. There was a long thread on LogicProHelp about the issue which got a bit heated as someone didn't believe it was possible to get such a blast. Cant remember the title but I'll try and find it for you. That was where I found out about Ice9. I dont know if its just for Logic/cross platform or what, but it lives on my main output as the last plug. The last thing anyone needs is hearing damage. Some have questioned if it works and others sware by it so I'll take what I can get to protect my ears.

Thanks for the info.

But you seems to assume it's a Logic issue. How do I have this issue in only one Ableton Live session, and I never had it in any other situation ?

I recently just had the same issue. Im using ableton live 11 and the noise comes out of nowhere when using kinetic metals. The noise is mad loud and even maxed out the channel volume. Luckily my volume settings were low on my headphones.