Wunderhorn
Senior Member
- Dec 4, 2022
- #1
What's your experience with Kontakt 7 so far?
How do you feel towards it compared to 6.x and if you are on VEP - does it play well with it?
Is it stable, how do you see the performance? Is it already in your template and is it there to stay?
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Wunderhorn
Senior Member
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- Dec 6, 2022
- #2
Nobody working with it yet?
RyanRhea
Member
- Dec 6, 2022
- #3
I'm building templates with it exclusively now and it's working great for me. I'm on a tiny machine at the moment... sad and inferior Intel chipset and only 16GB RAM. K7 is performing beautifully on my machine so far. I have a template I created for Audio Imperia SOLO that is all K7 from top to bottom. Works very well and super responsive, even on 16GB RAM.
The problem is the sh*tty design of Kontakt to begin with. Nothing has changed for the better... that useless nav menu is what they are hyping and it looks like something that a dev banged out over a weekend. A veneer over the same old crap. For example, you STILL get those 1990's "Are you sure you want to change" messages every time you change a patch. So much old, goofy junk UI still in that thing. They needed a total wipe and re-do, but they don't either seem to have the will or talent to do it. So like most legacy software devs, they'll just keep on duct taping it together and keep on taking people's money. 
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Wunderhorn
Senior Member
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- Dec 7, 2022
- #4
Using VEP I noticed at certain occasion all the Kontakt instrument GUIs freeze until I click somewhere else and back into the instrument. Does anyone else have this experience?
- Dec 7, 2022
- #5
I tried K7 and had to revert back to 6. 7 gave me a black screen and was unusable. Apparently it's to do with DivX feature level, if my memory is correct. As a result I'm moving away from Kontakt/NI to UVI. It'll mean ditching a load of VI's and FX, but NI are just a terrible company to work with IMO. Regret buying any of their stuff. Part of the problem is that they just expect users to solve issues themselves and rely on the community to do NI's job for them.
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Wunderhorn
Senior Member
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- Dec 8, 2022
- #6
OK... I was not intending to start a NI bashing thread. While there is lots we users would like to see improved in Kontakt) I was only asking for experiences and observations regarding performance/reliability of version 6 vs 7.
Windbag
Broken.
- Dec 8, 2022
- #7
Just Kontakt player here...seems fine in Logic on an M1 mac studio thusfar. I'm updating the closest thing I have to an orch template and K6 has been replaced....can't say I notice any difference apart from the new browser.
Biodynamic
(formerly Pincel)
- Dec 8, 2022
- #8
Honestly I'm having stupid issues with Kontakt 7, that I definitely don't have with K6, like little freezes when I just hover the mouse over the library tab and small dropouts if I mess with Chrome while playing and that kind of stuff. But this is not K7's fault necessarily, as I've come to the conclusion that it probably has something to do with my Nvidia card/drivers, because if I use the integrated graphics of my CPU, it's all smooth. Other than that, it seems to work well enough, but I'll keep using K6 until I can solve my issues with K7.
I'm sure I must be the exception, because most people seem happy with K7's performance, I guess.
Vik
Vi-k
- Dec 9, 2022
- #9
Pincel said:
Honestly I'm having stupid issues with Kontakt 7, that I definitely don't have with K6, like little freezes when I just hover the mouse over the library tab and small dropouts if I mess with Chrome while playing and that kind of stuff.
Is that on Mac or PC?
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Vi-k
- Dec 9, 2022
- #10
gives19 said:
No, but I hear that K 7 is a bit of a memory hog. Have stuck with V6 and it's been an improvement over K5
Someone mentioned memory hog in this thread. Anyone else who has had that (on Mac)?
ThomasNL
Thomas van der Burg
- Dec 9, 2022
- #11
I just can't stand the new navigation and miss the library tab. Definitely not gonna use it.
dzilizzi
Senior Member
- Dec 9, 2022
- #12
ThomasNL said:
I just can't stand the new navigation and miss the library tab. Definitely not gonna use it.
I just have the player. It is weird for me. I like having the library down the side. Everything disappears when you select a patch and you have to open it again if it wasn't the patch you wanted. I'm hoping this is just the player, because loading multiple instruments is going to be a pain.
8noise
New Member
- Dec 9, 2022
- #13
Wunderhorn said:
Using VEP I noticed at certain occasion all the Kontakt instrument GUIs freeze until I click somewhere else and back into the instrument. Does anyone else have this experience?
Don't know for Kontakt 7, but in Kontakt 6 it happens (some kind of mess in the GUI elements) with certain instruments (8dio, Chris Hein, some cinesamples...) while you have the instance loaded in VEP but not connected to the DAW yet. At the moment you connect to the DAW the GUI problem disappears.
Trash Panda
Clueless nitwit
- Dec 9, 2022
- #14
Kontakt 7 seems to take longer to load, but outside of that it's basically fine. My eyes are much happier when viewing it on my 4k monitor.
coprhead6
Active Member
- Dec 9, 2022
- #15
+1 for staying 1 generation behind with most software.
Daren Audio
Creative Director / Piano Lover
- Dec 9, 2022
- #16
ThomasNL said:
I just can't stand the new navigation and miss the library tab. Definitely not gonna use it.
dzilizzi said:
I just have the player. It is weird for me. I like having the library down the side. Everything disappears when you select a patch and you have to open it again if it wasn't the patch you wanted. I'm hoping this is just the player, because loading multiple instruments is going to be a pain.
This toggle with give you the look and feel of Kontakt 6 (with the branded banners on the left) so multis won't be an issue.
dzilizzi
Senior Member
- Dec 9, 2022
- #17
Daren Audio said:
This toggle with give you the look and feel of Kontakt 6 (with the branded banners on the left) so multis won't be an issue.
I clicked on that, but once I loaded the library, it all disappeared. I'm sure there's a setting I am missing.
Daren Audio
Creative Director / Piano Lover
- Dec 9, 2022
- #18
dzilizzi said:
I clicked on that, but once I loaded the library, it all disappeared. I'm sure there's a setting I am missing.
Check mark/select the settings you'd like to appear.
Biodynamic
(formerly Pincel)
- Dec 9, 2022
- #19
Vik said:
Is that on Mac or PC?
On PC. But it seems I was able to solve it though! For some reason, changing my PCIex lane to Gen 2 on the BIOS did the trick, and now I've been using Kontakt 7 without issues so far. Weird how these things work...
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JSTube
Active Member
- Dec 9, 2022
- #20
So besides the bugs that have been added, what features have been removed from Kontakt 6 -> 7?
Anyone missing AKAI import from Kontakt 5 yet?? (Stripped as of Kontakt 6 smh!)
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