Would be curious to hear what they have to say.
 
For grins, I just loaded stand alone K5, pulled up Traditional multi Full Ens Sustain Orchestrated.nkm and played a few notes. Everything sounded fine Until I played too many notes in too short of time frame and then it was breaking up like an mf'er. (see what I did there...)
 
K5 showed that each single key press plays 12 notes so just playing a chromatic scale things would start breaking up after about 1 octave. The K5 CPU meter was pegged and windows 7 also showed core 1 was pegged even though it was hitting 3 other cores pretty hard.
 
In K5 options I changed the CPU overload protection from none? to medium strength and that helped by killing old notes sooner but if you play faster it breaks up again. Haven't try the 'Strict' setting yet. (on my to do too list today)
 
Fanfare sounds great but the CPU hit really limits the usage of some of the library. Checked the spec's page and they have a core2duo listed...
 
Sorry I wasn't of more help but at least I am now able to confirm your initial issues as valid here also.

Thanks ol pal...that's exactly what I'm seeing here. I'll keep ya posted as to what they say.

I went to the Sample Logic site and snooped around a little. I did find this:
 
http://www.samplelogic.com/downloads-manuals
 
About 1/2 down the page is a heading FANFARE Downloads, with the following note:
 
Please Note: If you own the boxed version of FANFARE, or have downloaded your FANFARE  purchase before February 1st, 2012, we highly recommend updating to version 1.2, which fixes many minor issues and further enhances the instruments and Multis.  In addition, the CPU load is also improved. You can download the update here.
 
 
There is a V1.2 zip file there which I brought down and unzipped to check the contents. The files are about a week newer than the files I copied off of my install disks so I am going to try and replace them to see just how much load it takes off the CPU. Not getting my hopes too high but stranger things have happened...
 
If I make any progress I will post back later today.

I'm not at the studio today...so let me know how it goes. Fingers crossed:-)

Hope I'm not just getting the placebo effect but I think that helped!!!

rtucker55
I went to the Sample Logic site and snooped around a little. I did find this:
 
http://www.samplelogic.com/downloads-manuals
...
There is a V1.2 zip file there which I brought down and unzipped to check the contents. The files are about a week newer than the files I copied off of my install disks so I am going to try and replace them to see just how much load it takes off the CPU. Not getting my hopes too high but stranger things have happened...
 
If I make any progress I will post back later today.

I just tested this out on Multi > Traditional > Full Ens Sustain Orchestrated.  The old multi crackled a lot, but with the new multi, the crackling is gone.  Thanks!
 
EDIT: Forgot to mention that, with the old multi, my Kontakt CPU meter was at 100%, but with the new multi it stays below about 20%.

Cool beans!! Will follow suit ASAP.

Thanks for the confirmation silhan!

welp... I downloaded and replaced the boxed folders with the v1.2 folders.  No love.  Still crackle, glitch, CPU overload, hang.  Dern.
 

Sorry to hear the bad news, was hoping that was the missing piece to the puzzle.
 
If there is anything specific you would like for me to try here let me know and I can at least let you know what I see here. It looks like we are running similar systems with exception of the audio interface and the Sonar version, although, I did not try the VST in Sonar just used the stand alone K5.