KVR Audio

EnGee · Post by **EnGee** » Mon Mar 02, 2026 11:00 am

EvilDragon wrote: Mon Mar 02, 2026 7:49 am Try uninstalling the factory library then reinstalling from scratch.

Thank you

tobias_NI · Post by **tobias_NI** » Tue Mar 03, 2026 12:32 pm

Danilo Villanova wrote: Fri Feb 27, 2026 10:41 am I'm finding that most patches are causing crackling and CPU issues in this version while GUI is open. Didn't use to happen before. Extremely annoying if this is what it took to make parameters automatable. CPU seems to have doubled on my machine. Sadly I'm going to need to roll back.

Hi Danilo,

Thank you for flagging. Could you share some info on this (e.g. system)?

Does anyone else experience this?

Daru925 · Post by **Daru925** » Tue Mar 03, 2026 12:36 pm

tobias_NI wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 12:32 pm
Danilo Villanova wrote: Fri Feb 27, 2026 10:41 am I'm finding that most patches are causing crackling and CPU issues in this version while GUI is open. Didn't use to happen before. Extremely annoying if this is what it took to make parameters automatable. CPU seems to have doubled on my machine. Sadly I'm going to need to roll back.
Hi Danilo,

Thank you for flagging. Could you share some info on this (e.g. system)?

Does anyone else experience this?

I replied to you on NI forums.

oobesan · Post by **oobesan** » Tue Mar 03, 2026 2:25 pm

tobias_NI wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 12:32 pm
Danilo Villanova wrote: Fri Feb 27, 2026 10:41 am I'm finding that most patches are causing crackling and CPU issues in this version while GUI is open. Didn't use to happen before. Extremely annoying if this is what it took to make parameters automatable. CPU seems to have doubled on my machine. Sadly I'm going to need to roll back.
Hi Danilo,

Thank you for flagging. Could you share some info on this (e.g. system)?

Does anyone else experience this?

Yes, and it’s awful. My CPU meter looks fine, but after 2-3 instances of Massive X running, the crackling is nearly 100%. I’ll try to get some video.

zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Tue Mar 03, 2026 2:30 pm

tobias_NI wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 12:32 pm
Danilo Villanova wrote: Fri Feb 27, 2026 10:41 am I'm finding that most patches are causing crackling and CPU issues in this version while GUI is open. Didn't use to happen before. Extremely annoying if this is what it took to make parameters automatable. CPU seems to have doubled on my machine. Sadly I'm going to need to roll back.
Hi Danilo,

Thank you for flagging. Could you share some info on this (e.g. system)?

Does anyone else experience this?

I know I am not on my mac m1 max.
rsp

tobias_NI · Post by **tobias_NI** » Tue Mar 03, 2026 2:59 pm

Daru925 wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 12:36 pm
tobias_NI wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 12:32 pm
Danilo Villanova wrote: Fri Feb 27, 2026 10:41 am I'm finding that most patches are causing crackling and CPU issues in this version while GUI is open. Didn't use to happen before. Extremely annoying if this is what it took to make parameters automatable. CPU seems to have doubled on my machine. Sadly I'm going to need to roll back.
Hi Danilo,

Thank you for flagging. Could you share some info on this (e.g. system)?

Does anyone else experience this?
I replied to you on NI forums.

Where? I didn't find anything. Do you mean a DM?

Danilo Villanova · Post by **Danilo Villanova** » Tue Mar 03, 2026 8:19 pm

tobias_NI wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 12:32 pm
Danilo Villanova wrote: Fri Feb 27, 2026 10:41 am I'm finding that most patches are causing crackling and CPU issues in this version while GUI is open. Didn't use to happen before. Extremely annoying if this is what it took to make parameters automatable. CPU seems to have doubled on my machine. Sadly I'm going to need to roll back.
Hi Danilo,

Thank you for flagging. Could you share some info on this (e.g. system)?

Does anyone else experience this?

Yea, Windows 11, REAPER 7, potato laptop (i5, 8GB RAM). Its worse when the GUI is open, especially in Edit mode. It didn't use to get that bad before. Now most presets cause dropouts, before it was only a few heavy pads that did. Once I close the GUI it becomes playable, but it's annoying.

loctune · Post by **loctune** » Wed Mar 04, 2026 6:32 am

Daru925 wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2026 11:21 pm Can anyone confirm that pm is bugged?
Turn the PM knobs without any macro or enveloppe attached and it behaves strangely.
Attach a macro and the modulation is smooth and easy to dial in.

Yes, I can confirm the PM knob is bugged if no macro assigned. Crackles a lot when turned fast by mouse.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Thu Mar 05, 2026 7:34 am

Another confirmation on the behavior of PM1/PM2 knobs. That's definitely a regression in 1.7.

fuse · Post by **fuse** » Fri Mar 06, 2026 11:32 am

Version 1.7.1 is out.

Daru925 · Post by **Daru925** » Fri Mar 06, 2026 1:42 pm

Ah yes, it seems pm is fixed for good!
Happy!

Hope i don't discover other bugs, i seem to have some "luck" for finding them recently :p

SeeingInMidi · Post by **SeeingInMidi** » Thu Apr 09, 2026 9:21 pm

So is there a way to manage and organize user/third party presets yet?

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Thu Apr 09, 2026 9:22 pm

SeeingInMidi wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 9:21 pm So is there a way to manage and organize user/third party presets yet?

Not directly - but you can in Komplete Kontrol which seems to be intended to be NI's patch manager for everything. Any banks created in that will also show in Massive X - see thread here:

https://community.native-instruments.co ... ent_259813

swilow11 · Post by **swilow11** » Thu Apr 09, 2026 9:36 pm

CPU usage is wild now. Watching the DSP meter in Bitwig fluctuate hugely when doing simple things like increase the level of a noise oscillator. Unusable.

Danilo Villanova · Post by **Danilo Villanova** » Thu Apr 09, 2026 10:21 pm

Yeah, 1.7 is unusable for me too but to be fair my CPU sucks. They should really offer installer for previous versions.

Massive X 1.6.1 update (September 2025)!