Cubase and Kontakt 5 best way of working?

Cubase
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I heard (right or wrongly) that Cubase uses one core per instance of the Kontakt VST in the rack.
I am on an Intel 5820 with 6 cores, 12 threads. 32 gigs of RAM.

I am creating a very large template with full orchestras and more.

Would it be best to load fewer Kontakts, with more instruments, or more Kontakts with few instances - assuming the same number of sounds?

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It’s better to load multiple instances of Kontakt. This helps distribute the load on the CPU more evenly.

It’s fine to load multiple smaller libraries that wont receive much processing in only one or two instances of Kontakt though.