An excellent solution to host multiprocessing problems

FIRST!!!! ;-)

Make a Kontakt 2 FX, just like the instrument FX strip, only as a standalone VST effect, so as to allow the host to process the send effects as a separate thread, on separate processors(very useful for those who like to use a lot of convolution reverbs). It would work well in cubase, although I don't know about other hosts. Also, user definable options on how to handle multiprocessing would be nice(i.e. instead of processing odd # voices on one processor, and even on the other, allow for it to be on voice level, sample level, instrument level, etc...).

 

So where this would be an advantage is when you are using more than 16 instruments at once and have to spread them across multiple VST slots, then you'd have multiple Kontakt instances driving your single set of effects.

 

I was thinking more along the lines of using 2 instances or more of Kontakt(to take advantage of the hosts multiprocessing capabilities, regardless of instrument counts), to be able to share the same send effects between them. Making a Kontakt 2 FX would be a pretty simple task, all of the code is already written, and I'm sure that many would find it useful.