KONTAKT

Welcome to Part 3 of our Kontakt Workflow series! This post will cover additional ways you can optimize CPU and RAM usage within Kontakt, as well as features such as RAM Purge, batch resaving and NCW compression.

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CPU Usage Revisited

You may recall from our previous guide that Kontakt can eat up a lot of CPU with high polyphony and disk streaming (DFD). You already know that tweaking disk streaming, audio interface buffer length, and multicore options can help improve performance. However, there are other factors that can eat up CPU as well.

Generic Warning: When editing any of your Kontakt instruments, be sure to save your edited versions as NEW copies so you can always return to or restore the original library versions!

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Welcome to Part 2 of our Kontakt Workflow series! This post will focus on ways you can get Kontakt running more smoothly in your DAW and operating system of choice.

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Computer Spec Check

Whether you’re on Windows or Mac OSX, Kontakt is a fairly efficient piece of software, refined through years of development and updates. That being said, before we delve into Kontakt and your DAW, it’s important to take stock of the machine you’re running it on. Setting aside the operating system, consider your available CPU (processing power), RAM (memory), hard drive space, and your audio interface.

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The Kontakt sampler plugin by Native Instruments has come a long way since it was first released in 2002; it went from being the underdog (compared with Tascam’s Gigastudio) to the most dominant sample editing and playback software in the industry. Though we’ve only been developing commercial Kontakt libraries since 2007, we’ve been using it since the very beginning. In this series, we’ll help you optimize your workflow and make the most of Kontakt, no matter what DAW or platform you’re using.

Loading Libraries

If you’ve only used Kontakt Player libraries, you’re likely used to the convenience of the Libraries tab. Just hit “Add Library”, add an instrument like Archtop or Juggernaut, register it in Service Center, and you’re good to go. However, the majority of our catalog – indeed, the majority of all Kontakt patches out there – are not Kontakt Player compatible and cannot be loaded this way.

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