KONTAKT 4.2.2: loading of libraries slow again!

I have installed the KONTAKT 4.2.2 and matching Factory library update.

To my utter dismay, the loading of large libraries has slowed down again to where it was before the KONTAKT 4.1.3 update which introduced background loading.

This happens both with Factory [e.g. VSL] and 3rd Party [e.g. Steven Slate Drums, Lyrical Direct] libraries.

This is not what I expected from an update that promises "increased saving/loading performance"...

Also, I had a crash in Cockos Reaper 3.75 during the loading of a large library (something I never had with previous versions!).

Can anybody shed a light on this?

Machine specs: i7, 6 GB RAM, Windows 7 64bit, Reaper 3.75 64bit

Thanks,

PaetzoldR

 

The loading speed updates are most obviuos on the really big libraries with NKIs referencing many thousands of sounds. For example, Cinesamples VOXOS.

 

Hi ED,

as a fellow Reaperite, I should have expected you're lurking here as well ;-)

The problem is that in 4.1.3, even big libaries [e.g. Steven Slate Drums, Lyrical Direct] finished "loading" in next to no time (the window indicating the loading process would pop up for less than a second for each library).

Now with 4.2.2, I am back to where I was before 4.1.3: I can watch whole lengthy lists of samples being loaded, which is taking several seconds for each instrument.

I have a Reaper project with Steven Slate Drums, Lyrical Direct gutar and Dan Dean basses that used to load in 3 seconds in 4.1.3. With 4.2.2 it's back to nearly half a minute.

It seems like something has broken the background loading process.

PaetzoldR

 

Did you try to resave the patches again?

 

Can't say I'm 100% happy with it either. In previous versions, there used to be visual feedback that kontakt was loading samples, now, on the first load of a large instrument, it just hangs there until the load is complete

 

No, but will try and report.

The strange thing is that internal libraries (e.g. VSL) are slow as well, although the installation process seems to have run some sort of conversion process on them.

BTW, is resaving something I have stupidly missed and should have done anyway, or just a guess?

Thanks,

PaetzoldR

 

Resaving enables backgrund loading for NKIs. Of course, you need to have background loading enabled in Options.

 

Just for clarity:
Are you saying that ALL patches in Kontakt need to be re-saved? If so, how does one accomplish such a task in less than a few days?

 

Only those files that were created pre-version 4.1 need to be resaved. Kontakt has a batch re-save function (click the Files icon, you'll see it) for such cases.

 

Well -

it seems that batch re-saving did the trick (thanks, Evil Dragon) and background loading works again. It is not noticeably faster than in 4.1.x, though (mainly because there was little room for improvement anyway).

Which makes me wonder whether anyone got the factory libraries to load in the background _without_ resaving?

Thankfully, as kb123 pointed out above, there is now a surefire way of determining whether background loading is being used: if it is, no list of components scrolls by in the status window that pops up.

PaetzoldR