Does Kontakt 7 have any measurable improvements for CPU efficiency over Kontakt 5 or 6?
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jamie8
Active Member
to my knowledge, im on a mac intel i9 2020 128 gig of ram and in logic ,i have to let Kontact have two cores rather than 6.71 using whatever is available and letting logic still be on auto for the multi core , in my experience 7 uses way more cpu and this is for the same samples vers 6.71, it sucks and nobody seems to be bothered to fix or even acknowledge it .
EvilDragon
KSP Wizard
I have a lot of instruments installed and have not noticed any difference in CPU performance yet.
jamie8
Active Member
I appreciate Your comment Mario as you are the guru for this but i can send you a screenshot to verify the problem at least for me and this is from the latest 7.7.3
robgb
Inspiration is for amateurs
According to my DAW's performance meter, Kontakt 7 is using LESS CPU than Kontakt 6.
EvilDragon
KSP Wizard
First thing to check is if the multicore setting in Options->Engine matches between K7 and previous versions.
Patryk Scelina
Sonic Atoms founder
Well I see significant drop in performance compared to K6. At least in Cubase on intel i9 iMac.
Single Kontakt 7 instance can produce CPU spikes to around 3/4, while Kontakt 6 with the same patch loaded is barely visible on the performance meter.
I just updated Kontakt 7, hoping this was resolved, but it seems it's not. At least not for my system.
Single Kontakt 7 instance can produce CPU spikes to around 3/4, while Kontakt 6 with the same patch loaded is barely visible on the performance meter.
I just updated Kontakt 7, hoping this was resolved, but it seems it's not. At least not for my system.
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EvilDragon
KSP Wizard
And the multicore setting in Kontakt is the same between 6 and 7?
jamie8
Active Member
I will check this but i never touched the multi core settings before in 6.7.1
robgb
Inspiration is for amateurs
Maybe this is a Cubase issue? I use Reaper, and like I said, it's telling me 7 uses less CPU than 6. That said, the difference isn't much.
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Virtual Virgin
Senior Member
Thanks for the varied replies 
EvilDragon
KSP Wizard
tl;dr Just try it and let us know 
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Virtual Virgin
Senior Member
Actually, the reason I ask is about deciding whether or not to upgrade to 7. There are no particular features I have seen on Kontakt 7 that makes me interested, but I would upgrade if the CPU efficiency is clearly better. I use a lot of instances of Kontakt in my orchestral template.tl;dr Just try it and let us know
EvilDragon
KSP Wizard
Kontakt is already very much optimized to the bone. Now, what various library developers do and how they develop instruments, is beyond NI's control...
Patryk Scelina
Sonic Atoms founder
Yes. I checked few times with various multicore settings. The biggest difference is visable with multicore set to Off. Kontakt 6 seems work quite well with that setting in Cubase.
In K7 is there an option setting that will allow you to load an nki replacing a currently loaded one and not get that "really replace, changes will be lost" message. I can see that that might be useful to a programer or anyone who edits a lot. I do edit and save my own nki's, but 95% of the time I'm not and that is such a PITA. Every time, stop move mouse, click yes. I do hope there is finally an optional setting to disable this workflow buzzkill.
pinki
Senior Member
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I'm assuming the answer is no but I'll ask just incase. Can you disable the new browser in K7 as in all of the preset/database/picture lists that it contains? Being that I will never use it and thinking that all of those things loaded into multiple instances might add up to a lot of extra ram usage and slow the UI response when jumping from instance to instance. I could be concerned about nothing, but am curious what experienced user think.
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EvilDragon
KSP Wizard
You cannot disable it. You can, however, not open it.
Also, the database is loaded only once for the whole project, it's not taking up extra memory per instance.
Also, the database is loaded only once for the whole project, it's not taking up extra memory per instance.
Epic Wonder
Active Member
I installed Kontakt 7 this week. It is not reliable. It takes long to load into my DAW and often crashes my sessions. Thankfully I do not have many new songs saved using this version. I am sticking with Kontakt 6 for as long as possible.
