Cubase - Kontakt 5 Player & Strummed Acoustic [SOLVED]

John_Purser · August 19, 2018, 5:12pm

Thoughts / solutions please!

I’m running Cubase 9.5 / Kontakt 5 Player & Strummed Acoustic library on an Intel i5 with 16GB of RAM.

All my other NI libraries run with no problem within Kontakt but Strummed Acoustic seems very ‘sensitive’ to low memory and may not load or play.
A blank session will work ok but the nearest hint of another VST like Halion and it fails to co-operate.

I’ve tried all the tweaks but no joy

Any insights please?

Thank you

John

Martin.Jirsak · August 19, 2018, 6:36pm

Hi,

Increase your Audio Device Buffer Size or use Freeze function.

John_Purser · August 19, 2018, 6:37pm

Tried those but no luck I’m afraid.

Martin.Jirsak · August 19, 2018, 6:39pm

Why? What was the problem with it?

John_Purser · August 20, 2018, 1:48pm

I think I just need more RAM

Nickeldome · August 20, 2018, 2:01pm

You can check your memory usage in ‘Task manager’. If you’re close to the max you might be right but with only one instance of Halion 6 and Kontakt 5 I don’t think so? It rather looks like a performance issue of some kind.

John_Purser · August 20, 2018, 2:32pm

I think the problem lies with the NI Strummed Guitar - seems very sensitive to memory issues …

Everything else is running as expected

John_Purser · August 20, 2018, 2:38pm

[UPDATE - PROBLEM RESOLVED]
Seems I was running at too low a tempo for the VST to trigger it’s pattern.
I was running at 58 bpm. It works at higher bpm