Can I stop K2 spinning up my CD/DVD drives?

For some reason completely unknown to me, when I insert an instance of K2 (either VST or DXi), it insists on spinning up all my CD/DVD drives until they're all going "wwwwWRRRWRWRWRWRRRRR!!!!" for about a minute before finally obliging my sequencer by making an appearance.

Why on earth does it have to do this? Am I supposed to just empty all my CD trays before loading K2?

Is it possible to stop it doing this?

 

Kontakt is refreshing the intrument lists on all drives.

You should ALWAYS keep all you removable media drives empty.

 

This problem sounded familiar, I remembered I read about it yesterday on another forum.

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=150954

 

Hi all,

did you try to uncheck the Autorefresh Browser option?


best,
Markus

 

Hi everyone, K2 seems to be behaving nicely now and I think I know why.

I don't have a floppy drive installed, but in my BIOS, A: was still set as an active drive.

I think the long pause on startup wasn't, in fact, due to the CD drives but polling on a non-existant floppy disk.

Since switching it off in the BIOS, windows no longer thinks it sees a floppy drive and Kontakt2 seems to load up within a couple of seconds.