I run Kontakt 6.1.1 on Win 10 thru VE PRO5. Been running this setup since Kontakt 5. Suddenly yesterday it takes forever just to open the plugin. Loading files is fine.

Scratching my head on this one as how this is happening all the sudden. I've had issues with slow loading times in the past but it was a anti-virus issue which I disabled on my sample drive. Would anyone have ideas what could cause this?

I scanned for virus all clean.

I'm wondering if it's time to update to 6.2.1 but I usually don't update unless I really have to for fear of not having my libraries accessible plus I find it tricky to do and make sure my projects are backward compatible (ie open files with older Kontakt versions)

 

idem with 6.2.1
after Native Instruments changed the Native Access url's. it take a long time to scan the new hash.

just wait. open it again an you will see it load faster the second time.
it scan the security code that have been updated.

the change append every week, sometime less.

 

It takes several minutes every time I load a new project now. Couple days ago I didn't have that problem. Trying to figure out why that is.

 

I dunno exactly what the deal is with Windoze, but v6.1.1 was super-buggy for me on the Mac, I actually downgraded to v6.0.4 and was planning on staying there for the foreseeable future until I tried out v6.2.1, which looked like it fixed a lot of the problems with v6.1.1. Never looked back.

 

My MAC is too old for 6.2.1
I'll try it on Windows but must figure out how to do it properly. I can't remember the trick to make backward compatible.

 

Hiya.
You probably know this, but the more you add folders to Quickload, the slower Kontakt gets regards opening times.
At least, this used to always be the case. I'm on 6.2.1 on macOS Sierra, and just as routine now for many years I've not put everything in Quickload.

 

Yes I've heard about the Quickload slowing down but I didn't have much in there and didn't update that in a long time.

I cleaned up my NI folder and installed 6.2.1 with same issue. I timed it and it takes 3 minutes just to add the plug-in!
Makes no sense.

 

Last edited: Feb 5, 2020

Well I can still use Kontakt 5 and Kontakt 6 in projects (not that I would need to), but that's only because they have different names that they can coexist.
With the standalones it's obviously easy to just rename the app, appended with a number or something. Perhaps that is what people do with the plugins to have backwards compatibility re projects.

 

So I unplugged my internet cable and it loaded instantly! Plugged it back in and still loads instantly.
I rebooted just to make sure and loads fine now. Weird oh well, just happy I don't have to sit that long just for the thing to load.

Just need to put back my older Kontakt so my projects will load cause it can't create the plugin anymore with this new version.
You'd think they would have thought of a way to update the software without having to change the name of the so older project would simply load the latest software and not be linked to an old version.

 

Oh shit. If you were online as well as plugged in to your router, the slowness would definitely have been your daw calling back to NI.
Don't you have these things blocked, or have a network filter?
But that's good you've found an answer of sorts.

 

All old libs are seen in newer Kontakts though. Unless you just meant your old project compatiblility?

 

Yes all this stuff is blocked so not sure what happened. In any case, I now have 6.2.1 and 6.1.1 running side by side and appear to work fine. Thanks for the replies