Hi,
I'm having some strange issues with Kontakt 6 and VEP 6. I run two Mac Pro's with Cubase Pro 9 as the host DAW. VEP 6 is on the Mac Pro 2.1 (2 x 3GHz 8 core 32GB RAM) and is set to 7 threads per instance. I usually only have one instance of VEP running which then hosts a couple of instances of Kontakt 6 and posibly some soft synths (usually Sylenth1). Cubase Pro audio buffer is normally at 384 with theFireFace 800.
However after having an issue with Kontakt maxing out it's CPU meter whilst playing one string voice streamed from either a SSD or 7200 HDD (pre load buffer size set to 240 kb due to 32gb of available RAM), i found that by having the multi processing active in Kontakt. The CPU usage went down by 75%? Ordinarily, i thought the rule is, if your DAW/Host has multi processing active, then everything else which has that option should be off. ASIO gaurd is also off for VEP in Cubase as per p37 of the VEP manual. Also the Kontakt disk meter stays at 0%.
I should add that when i run Kontakt as a stand alone on the slave MP 2.1, the CPU issue doesn't occur when playing the same voice, only when hosted in VEP 6 and Kontakt multi processing is set to off.
I'd be grateful if someone with experince of using a simialr setup as above could offer guidelines/rule of thumb on the following
VEP 6 thread per instance
Kontakt multi processing option when hosted in VEP or Cubase
Multiple VEP instances versus a singular instance with multiple Kontakts & soft synths
Thank you for taking the time to read the post.
Cheers,
MD