found this about Kontakt (for kontakt users)

[ksiragusa]

Hi guys
I've just discovered this and been talking about it at NI group as well. I've been trying to find out if you could automaticaly get patches to load into 'sampler' instead of DFD (load to RAM instead of streaming from disk) but stumbled across something else.
You know when you load a kontakt patch and then click on the wrench icon and change from DFD to sampler - this is only loading that sample group into RAM, not the whole patch. If you go to group edit and change all the groups within an instrument to sampler, you get much better performance.
I'm just playing around with it now but the results are very, very good - I can actually play stuff in Kontakt at 64k buffers!

Cheers
Kim

[Kermit Jagger]

Excellent tip, thanks. Another reason to put 2Gb ram then.

Talking about K2, how is DfD v1.4 on Receptor now that K 2.1.1 has been released ?

[Hybernation]

Talking about K2, how is DfD v1.4 on Receptor now that K 2.1.1 has been released ?

I can't tell any difference. The things that ate the CPU before, such as very large piano libs (SampleTekk, PMI, etc) still eat it pretty bad. And that tip won't help you much when the samplelib exceeds 2GB (which mine do). In fact, if I try to load TSO without DFD, it takes forever and eventually hard-crashes my unit!

[ksiragusa]

Hi Hybernation
Agreed, DFD is still poor in Kontact and the receptor. Oh how I wish this could be improved on. I have Sampletekk White Grand - bought it last night and yeah pretty much a no go on the receptor. However, for other patches that can load all into RAM, things are much better, eg layered strings, light pianos etc seem to work alright at 64k.

Cheers
Kim

[Hybernation]

Hi Hybernation
Agreed, DFD is still poor in Kontact and the receptor. Oh how I wish this could be improved on. I have Sampletekk White Grand - bought it last night and yeah pretty much a no go on the receptor. However, for other patches that can load all into RAM, things are much better, eg layered strings, light pianos etc seem to work alright at 64k.

Yes, agree. Hey, you might want to check out SampleTekk's TSO. It's a nice "close" Grand, and since it's only 2.2GB is works pretty well on Receptor. It comes with a K2 patch without the release samples, which helps even further. It's small enough where I have some K2 multi's with it layered with pad or strings that play very nicely.

I LOVE White Grand, btw, and also Black Grand Close is very nice. I think I have enough pianos now, so I'll stop buying them...NOT