Kontakt not streaming from disk?

i recently bought Kontakt. I have used it before and feel very familiar with it's operation. One thing bothers me though. I try to load the piano instruments that come with Kontakt (the 230 meg ones), and i have errors saying things like system ram is running below 8Meg and i have to stop loading. It also seems that among the supplied instruments, the largest samples i can load are about 75meg. I have copied everything to my hard drive so, i know it's not trying to read from the cd. I am running Logic Audio Platinum on a dual 1.25Ghz machine with 768ram. I read also that the 1.1.1 update would allow me to stream samples straight from disk, which would lead me to believe that the size of the sample would not matter. Any help would be appreciated. thanks.

 

in finder, did you allocate more than the default amount of RAM to kontakt? if you have 768MB in your system, allocate at least 384 or so, depending on what your sequencing software requires to run.. that is probably the issue.

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kontakt not streaming?

right i will try that but, should that be an issue if the samples are in fact streaming from the disk. Or am i perhaps under the illusion that NI has kept there word and released and update that supports streaming from disk. at any rate your suggestion is very helpful, thank you.

 

My understanding is that Kontakt version 1.2 will be the first to offer direct-from-disk streaming of samples, key switching, etc. This update is supposed to be offered anytime now (hopefully at least by the time my copy arrives from Sam Ash Music next week!). Currently, Kontakt does not stream samples from disk.

 

Im reading the "what's new" page for the 1.1.1 update on the NI Kontakt Update DL page. It says nothing about the 1.1.1 upgrade being able to Stream from disk... I believe that disk streaming for this product is slated for the next major update and not v1.1.1.

 

Direct From Disk coming in January

Hi all,
the KONTAKT update 1.2 and the additional Direct from Disk extension will follow in January 2003 as free downloads, and will allow for playing back samples directly from the hard drive. Version 1.1.1 does not support this feature.

best,
Andreas/NI