Kontakt 4 owners - please test this!
Hi there, coming out of
this thread, I've been experiencing various problems with Kontakt 4.1 and Sonar (and VE Pro, incidentally). It seems most people have stable systems, so I'm trying to track down if this following bizarre memory behaviour is just me or if everyone has it. I'd be so, so grateful if someone could try the following, preferably on a 32 bit system.
1. Start from a clean boot. Launch Sonar, open a blank project with Kontakt 4.1 installed. (uses 217mb on my system)
2. From K4's core library, open the String Ensemble in the orchestral folder (Kontakt reports the patch is 79mb).
3. Now open two more identical instruments, so you now have 3 string ensembles. These obviously share samples, but there is a small increase in memory for having the additional instruments. Total memory now used by Sonar is 388mb.
4. Save the project, close, then reopen.
5. Task Manager now reports memory useage of 528mb - an increase of about 140mb.
After this, I've often found the system is especially grumpy and may hang on loading a new instrument.
If anyone has 5 minutes to spare to try this and report back the findings on their memory usage, I'd be eternally grateful. Please post the rough system specs too. Mine are:
Q6600, 4GB RAM, XP 32 bit, Sonar 8.5.2
Many thanks.
post edited by noiseboy - 2010/09/14 19:00:14