Massive X and Kontakt 7 vs. Cubase 12 Pro on Windows 11

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Hi there,
first post so official “hello forum”

Browsed the forums, searched the web and not seem to find any answer to that.
Noticed that when using NI Massive X and NI Kontakt 7 are taking solid few seconds when loading their GUI. Playback is fine but when want to run the plugin GUI (Edit Instrument) it is taking a long time to run, arouund 10 seconds. Seem like it might be a redrawing gui issue. Once the GUI is up it runs normally. Playback is with no issues.

Old Massive and Kontakt 6 are lightning fast.

Enabeling or disabeling HiDPI does not solve the problem.

Tested StudioOne (installed a trial of v6) same issue. On Ableton Live on Windows it is ok with Massive X and Kontakt 7.

Anyone has a similiar issue? Wondering if downgrading to Windows 10 will solve it.

PC specs (if needed) :
i9-10920X
64GB Ram
2TB SSD system drive - also plugins and etc is there.
Samples for K7 and presets for massive X are on saparate SSD drive.

Many thanks!
bests!
Adam

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Hi,

To me it sounds like NI issue. Especially if you can reproduce it in other DAW.

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Well, not exactly.
Was able to reproduce it in StudioOne - rumour has it that it is being developed by some of the former Steinberg engineers.
Ableton Live was not able to reproduce it.

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Try to disable windows defender for the moment and see if you got any improvement.

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Thanks for pointing this out. Didn’t help thought.
What I did was check the other machine: on Windows 10 it was working fine, then upgraded to 11 and had the same problem. Installing fresh, clean Windows 11 from iso file. and it was ok. So in a short thought it might be something when upgrading from 10 to 11 with no clean install of 11.