optimizing kontakt with an SSD Drive

i'm about to purchase an SSD drive, and i will transfer all the "big" libraries and patches to this drive.
my question is: how should i optimize kontakt 5 in order to get the most from the SSD?
i understand i should load a minimum amount of samples in memory and let the SSD do a massive stream...

so, which paramenters shouold tweak and how?

 

Just need to reduce the DFD buffer size to lowest value (6 KB). However, if you do this globally, other hard drives you might have sample libraries on will suffer... So you would have to go to Instrument Options>DFD tab on each instrument you load, and resave.

 

thanks!

 

Change to DFD in instrument options is perhaps not recommended for instruments using sample positioning (other than zero). At least I think I can slightly remember this, don't know if this is still valid. You'd rather should check this.

 

it's probably correct.
i remember from garritan orchestra isntruments that you had to load the patch in RAM because the legato was programmed by modifying the sample start position.
thx for pointing out this!

 

Sample startpoint positioning can now be done in DFD mode as well (since K4 I think), and also libraries utilizing S.Mod on each zone can do the same thing - S.Mod basically bypasses DFD preload size by loading a bigger chunk of the sample into RAM, so adjusting DFD buffer size for such instruments has no merit.

 

Hi EvilDragon, thanks for updating this issue (as I guessed this could be changed in the meantime ;-)...).