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Excessive Load Times with Kontakt Instruments

Discussion in 'Technical Issues - KOMPLETE (Archive)' started by hwangman, Apr 4, 2016.

  1. hwangman

    hwangman Forum Member

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    I recently moved from a Mac to PC workstation for music production:
    • CPU: i5 @3.2 GHz
    • RAM: 24GB
    I'm using Ableton 9 as my DAW, and it is installed on my main OS drive (a 500GB SSD). All VSTs are on a USB 3.0 external drive.

    I've noticed that almost all of the Kontakt instruments I load take way longer than they ever did on the Mac (a 6-year old dual core model with 4GB of RAM). For example, when loading Session Horns, a 1.3GB .nki file takes over 2 minutes to load. Even smaller instruments like the Scarbee bass (175 MB total) take over a minute. I know that the Mac audio drivers are usually easier to configure than Windows drivers, but my new machine has 6x the amount of RAM as the Mac and somehow takes over twice as long to load every NI/Kontakt instrument.
     
    hwangman, Apr 4, 2016
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  2. EvilDragon

    EvilDragon Well-Known Member

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    See if Windows Defender is scanning files on open and disable that option.
     
    EvilDragon, Apr 4, 2016
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  3. hwangman

    hwangman Forum Member

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    Is it Options > Real-time Protection > "Use Real-time Protection"?
     
    hwangman, Apr 28, 2016
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