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  • Kontakt not loading samples without manual reloading

    Hey all,

    I am nearly done with a big template and noticed that my Kontakt 7 instances don't fully load when I open my project. It loads most of it, but somehow about 15-20gb of Kontakt instruments get stuck in limbo of a red or yellow purge status. I can confirm it thinks it's done loading because the voice memory used in the engine tab is static.

    However, if I use File-Purge All instances - Reload All, then it kicks it back off and slowly loads the rest of the 15-20gb of patches into ram and everything shows as loaded as expected.

    Is this a known issue/bug? I'm new to VEPro but though a session would save the states and the patches would load based on Kontakt preload buffer settings upon opening.

    If this is known is there a way to shortcut hitting that combo to ensure opening the session loads it fully as it was saved?

    It happens with seemingly random patches ranging from LASS, OT WW, and OT Metropolis ARK and usually on the later instances.


  • Did you figure out why this was happening by any chance @Aaronbrownsound? I've also noticed it with my VEP server project, but not all instances.


  • This "samples not loading in Kontakt 6 inside VEP7 unless I deactivate and reactivate the VEP Instance" is now plaguing me too. It's occurring with Cinematic Studio libs (CSB, CSW) and CineSamples and Orchestral Tools (older Kontakt libs).

    It's not impacting the first instance in a 4 instance VEP server project, only the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th (to load up). This was not happening with this server project up until today.

    I'm only using BBCSO and Kontakt VST3s in the entire server project.

    Any ideas what causes this @Paul? I'm using VEP 7.3.3725 on MacOS 15.2 on an M3 Max with 128GB RAM.


  • Other reports of this:

    https://forum.vsl.co.at/topic/42516/template-randomly-stops-loading-kontakt-samples (2017)

    https://vi-control.net/community/threads/kontakt-samples-not-loading.58549/ (2016)

    I'm loading all my samples off the internal MacBook Pro SSD (8TB) - which is fairly new - so I don't think it's a disk issue for me.