Hey,

I got that library from the sister site. The strings are really awesome but it takes Kontakt around 7 Minutes until it loads the instruments. Am I doing something wrong? I know it's big and all that but other libraries that have similar size load much faster. I have the library on an external hard drive like all my other libraries.

Any suggestions?

 

Did you already try "Batch re-save" for this library in Kontakt?

 

Didn't know about that, I try that. Thank you!

 

Last edited: Apr 19, 2021

I've found that Batch resave significantly improves load times in almost every case, and for Modern Scoring Strings, the difference was quite dramatic.

 

holy shit. Why isn't batch resave done as default?

 

I understood batch resave optimizes the load on your particular computer, so it won’t help if the manufacturer would do it before release

 

They typically are by manufacturers.... If you edit the folder in any way & move the library batch resaving has to be redone. Small price to pay for a gift.

 

But remember that if you have used a library using K5 in earlier projects and save/batch resave in K6, you can't open instruments in K5 again.

K-))

 

A little late to this thread but a small tip: Before you batch resave, make sure you make a backup of all the .NKIs and store them in another place, just so that if you make a mistake you won't have to re-download the whole library again!

 

Also remember to turn off your windows antimalware app because it scans files everytime you open them up in kontakt

 

Good tip! I can vouch for this. Make an exclusion in Windows Defender for the directory where your libraries are stored. Also, add exclusions for the following file types:
AIFF, WAV, NCW, NKC, NKI, NKM, NKR.

 

Not to hijack this thread, but it's related to batch re-save of MSS specifically.

What can you do if the batch re-save crashes Kontakt? I've tried multiple times with Modern Scoring Strings libraries and it gets a good part of the way through, then, boom.. Kontakt closes. It did that once or twice with other libraries before, but when I'd re-run the batch re-save, it would work. I tried deleting MSS and re-"installing" it, and still the same thing happens. I've tried like a dozen times. I even have tried it in different versions of Kontakt (portable 6.5.3 and 6.5.1) and it still happens.

Would it possibly need more space on the drive with the library? I think I had at least as much as the size of the library in free space (150GB+). But maybe need more?? I even tried doing the Expanded Legato library, which is 56GB, and that crashes.


Edit: I just saw smegma's post. I think I have the windows av stuff off, and have disabled my av when running, but I'll try that all again too.

 

That's interesting, I've never had that occur to me before.

I don't have the library before, but I assume the number of patches must be quite large. The only suggestion I can give is to try resaving a small number of patches at once, say 10 at a time, and then repeat the process. It might take a bit more time, but you might probably find the patch that is causing Kontakt to crash and try resaving it individually, or leaving it and not resaving it at all.
I don't think this has something to do with lack of free space.

 

maybe because you so lazy and can't find official site uusing google? open faq page at https://audiobro.com/support/f-a-q-s/ and then open first question. WOW!!! it was easy, right?...

I have no words.

 

That has nothing to do with my question why it isn't done as default or why the library is not asking you to do this task as default after installing it. But thank you for insulting me. I hope you are feeling better now

 

Last edited: May 13, 2021

Oh i didn't even know you could do parts of a library at a time. I'll see if I can do that later on, and how that goes. Thats a good idea, thanks.

 

What if your disk communication in not stable? Is it an external drive?
Or something like a malware running in the background in the system interrupts Kontakt during the process.
Or some patch files (.nki) or folders are somehow set as read-only?

 

Yes, you can do that. Try it out and let me know how it goes.

The first and the third case are more likely.

 

batch resave - standart feature of kontakt. if didn't know about it before maybe you just don't know what is the kontakt, what you can do with it, how it working and don't want to learn this software for composing?

 

Brand new Samsung 980, so I'd sure hope it's not the drive (benchmark is great on this one, and I have another NVMe for my O/S drive.. don't ever use external drives). I checked, and nothing read-only. Being in the business of downloading pirated software, I can't say for certain I don't have malware, but I do have full version of Malware Bytes for my a/v / anti-malware and it says all's good, FWIW.

Anyways, I'm going to give it a shot with doing these nki's individually and see where that gets me Thanks