Topic: Kontakt 5.0.2 Partly solved issues

Thanks for reporting. I don’t think I’d have the patience to go through all that though 😉

I’m waiting until (hopefully) Frits finds a proper solution to this as currently Kontakt and Podium aren’t a good mix – which is a shame as generally setting up multi-timbral instruments in Podium is so easy.

@MikaFrench31 wrote:

Hi Frits,

To know when a solution will be developed for better management of Kontakt?

I look forward to it

Hi Mika, thanks for your patience on this matter. This is high on my priority list, but unfortunately I’ve had to spend some time on non-development stuff in the last few weeks. Once I can get back to fully concentrate on development, I’ll look into this. Hopefully within a month or two.

I recently got Kontakt 5 and Reaktor 5 bundled with a keyboard I bought. I haven’t tried them with Podium yet — and it’s not critical I use them at all because I have plenty of other great sounds and instruments — but are you saying Native Instruments software does not work or does not work smoothly with Podium?

If so, what is the problem this time? I have the Abbey Road Drums now with this software, and I sure would like to use them eventually. I suppose I could always produce those drums on my Reaper or Ableton and bring them to Podium.

I can’t understand from this thread what the issue is. What’s up?

Oh, yeah. I remember that! And I can now personally verify that the licensing was a real horror show. The website kept telling me I wasn’t logged in when in fact I was and it even stated so at the top of the page. After signing some five times, it finally gave me the key number (for an off-line computer registration). Then, I was done with those people!

Mine, being a bundled freebie with hardware, gratefully came with somewhat under a gig of files. I think also the players/host they are offering now is technically 5.5, so it may not be as bad as the former. I read about improvements to the player, for example.

I need to review the other thread some more, though, since I’m unclear about what the issue is as it applies to Podium.

Hi Mika,

I’ll start on this in January. I’ll reply to this topic when I have something to report.

I think, case to the CPU or RAM load by adding a instrument in the Kontakt …
few samples in instrument – normal
many (more 1gb) – crash
it is a problem of Kontakt and not Podium,..
in Reaper or other DAW this also happens, but rarely …
need to run the podium through the debugger, and see what will talk disassembler 😉 …
… effects of NI – work fine …

I must admit, I gave up on Kontakt and all NI products. Podium is not alone — NI products can act up in other hosts. I had issues in Ableton Live 8 also, before I gave Live to a musician friend of mine. I’ve read the forum threads elsewhere, too. It seems like if it wasn’t one thing, it was another. Certain issues in Reaper as well.

Whenever you have a plugin that is liable to bring along a gig or more of memory-filling stuff, it just begs for troubles (not saying it guarantees it, though). Also, licensing flukes have turned up for some users in other DAWs. I don’t recall the details, but redoing the NI licensing was required.

The very last straw for me, after a string of other odd events, was one day with Kontakt in standalone, it decided to open a new instance of my ASIO driver each time I added or switch instruments in its framework. Suddenly, my PC is very unhappy, and I notice in the corner of my taskbar 4 icons for my ASIO. Then, to make matters worse Kontakt won’t shut down. End of story — no more Native Instruments anywhere near my PC. Funny, but I don’t miss it much. I never owned its Massive synth or any of the pricey, better instruments. Most I had were the 2nd-rate free or cheap ones. I found 137 leftover reg entries after a full uninstall, too. Not happy about that at all, but they’re gone now.