Billy Palmer
Active Member
When running Kontakt 5 as a standalone, I can safely play with any of the native instruments pianos without going much over 10% CPU usage on my 2015 macbook pro. This is with the smallest latency of 32 samples, the memory server active and Kontakt optimised for my 4 CPU cores.
In Logic, however, I have enormous CPU spikes when loading an instance of Kontakt with these exact same settings . The only way I can avoid clicks and pops whilst playing is by putting my buffer above 64 samples, which is not what I want when improvising.
2 questions:
1) Are there any optimisations in Logic I could be overlooking?
2) Are there any hack-y work-arounds I could try?
Perhaps I could somehow capture audio and midi with a different application whilst running Kontakt 5 as a standalone?... I could kind of treat this like a little recording session, and then focus on editing my audio and or midi in Logic.
Are there any free apps that I could use to capture audio or MIDI playing virtual piano? I recently downloaded REAPER, perhaps it would be more efficient than Logic in this instance?
Thank you for the help!
Bonus facts!!!
16 GB RAM, High Sierra, latest version of Logic. Logic optimised for four cores. Large buffer range. 32 bit summing.
Samples are on the internal SSD, all instruments are batch resaved. I am so out of ideas.
In Logic, however, I have enormous CPU spikes when loading an instance of Kontakt with these exact same settings . The only way I can avoid clicks and pops whilst playing is by putting my buffer above 64 samples, which is not what I want when improvising.
2 questions:
1) Are there any optimisations in Logic I could be overlooking?
2) Are there any hack-y work-arounds I could try?
Perhaps I could somehow capture audio and midi with a different application whilst running Kontakt 5 as a standalone?... I could kind of treat this like a little recording session, and then focus on editing my audio and or midi in Logic.
Are there any free apps that I could use to capture audio or MIDI playing virtual piano? I recently downloaded REAPER, perhaps it would be more efficient than Logic in this instance?
Thank you for the help!
Bonus facts!!!
16 GB RAM, High Sierra, latest version of Logic. Logic optimised for four cores. Large buffer range. 32 bit summing.
Samples are on the internal SSD, all instruments are batch resaved. I am so out of ideas.