KVR Audio

boombaxx · Post by **boombaxx** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 4:48 pm

hi was using k5 maverick piano cpu usage was 50% on a 8 note chord without the inbuilt reverb 70% with. I am using a core i5 4670k this seems excessive for a sample based instrument. Anyone help with what they get for this

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:05 pm

boombaxx wrote:k5 maverick piano

You mean you are using The Maverick by Native Instruments, in Kontakt 5 ?:

http://www.native-instruments.com/en/pr ... -maverick/

dsan@mail.com · Post by **dsan@mail.com** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:18 pm

If you use K5 VST, you may want to turn off Multiprocessor support and allow the DAW to utilize Multiprocessor.

If you use K5 stand alone then you want to turn on Multiprocessor support.

These are NI's recommendations and may help (should) with the CPU load.

Of course, you may also have something else going on you have not specified so makes it hard to gauge.

Since v5.3 though Kontakt doesn't seem as efficient now and seems to use more CPU that it previously did. At least here it does. As long as you're not getting drop outs and such I don't know that it is worrisome. YMMV.

Cheers!
dsan

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:22 pm

Actually later K5 versions seem LESS CPU intensive, since Time Machine Pro was optimized, and MIDI CC processing was optimized as well (in K5.5)...

dsan@mail.com · Post by **dsan@mail.com** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:28 pm

Maybe I've got some other issues then ED

, but since the update K5 has been giving me all sorts of problems.

Actually, where does one point the finger? K5, VEP5, Live, BWS?

None of those are playing well together for me

BTW - I noticed you wrote K5.5 and re-checked mine....yes, 5.5.0.409

Cheers!
dsan

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:31 pm

dsan@mail.com wrote:Actually, where does one point the finger? K5, VEP5, BWS?

I thought I spent too much time in the forum, but I'm still not so into things that I understand acronyms

dsan@mail.com · Post by **dsan@mail.com** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:38 pm

Numanoid wrote:
dsan@mail.com wrote:Actually, where does one point the finger? K5, VEP5, BWS?
I thought I spent too much time in the forum, but I'm still not so into things that I understand acronyms

K5= Kontakt v5, latest update 5.5.0.409
VEP5 = Vienna Ensemble Pro v5
BWS= Bitwig Studio

Live, I guess you got since it was edited out

Cheers!
dsan

boombaxx · Post by **boombaxx** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:49 pm

Weird just tried it by itself in my daw now it is only 20%-28% max. Must be doing something wrong

bill45 · Post by **bill45** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 4:57 am

Isn't there a logic trick, You create an unused track, throw a plugin on it.
This takes logic out of live mode, which throws everything on one core.
You will get even multi core distribution.
Isn't the latest kontakt update 5.5.4?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:51 am

That's a trick for Logic, but not other DAWs.

bill45 · Post by **bill45** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 2:32 pm

Right, just thought I'd point that out for logic users.
Grab the 5.5.4 update.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 2:40 pm

There's no 5.5.4. Just 5.5.1, and it won't make any difference regarding CPU usage.

bill45 · Post by **bill45** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 5:05 pm

Thanks

K5 cpu usage