If you've replaced that AHCI blade with an NVMe 3 x4 (highly recommended) your System is running around 2.5x faster than it came from Apple. On my iMP where my system drive is 5–6x faster than a MP 6.1, it's pretty easy. System vs external is far less obvious on my ancient MBP where both are SATA III. That I got an 18 Core from the Refurb Store for the price I got for the 14 Core - didn't plan on that but I'm enjoying faster performance in some apps including DP (didn't see that coming). I wish the iMP would catch up but having 4TB onboard is the exact reason, I sold my 14 Core. The MP 7.1 can be expanded and while extra storage isn't quite as fast as Apple's onboard, few outside the film/animation industry would notice. If I was wrong, there's be no reason why the latest iMacs, MPs and MBPs can be had with 8TB onboard. TB3 NVMe 3 x4 externals make it less of an issue now that 4TB is here and 8TB is on the horizon. I can demonstrate in real time why DP projects should be on the System Drive especially since my externals are SATA III SSDs. …Yea, I get that a lot but it doesn't make me wrong. And frankly, if you're working in a film production environment, a single project could be many times the size of your system drive. That'll avoid bloating the system drive as the VI library is not updated or added to quite as often as the project drive. This is especially true if you have a lot of projects and keep your archived projects on the external drive. It would seem you'd want the VIs on the system drive and the projects on the external. You can have the VIs on the external but projects should be on the System drive. I was hoping that someone here might have an answer. I'm not sure if pre-gen is causing this issue, especially since, as I said, I can open the Kontakt plugin window in DP, which is supposed to change it from pre-gen to real time and it still behaves the same way. I'm not sure I want to use it as a workaround, especially if I wanted to use multiple Kontakt instruments in the same project. I was also able to play the standalone Kontakt in DP via ipMIDI and it plays and records MIDI fine that way. In standalone mode and in Hosting AU, it sounds normal.Īlso, it appears that this exact behavior happens in Logic 10.5.1, so it may be a Kontakt issue and not a DP issue. I've had this same behavior in DSP-Quattro v5.2.1, except, in that case, it happens upon loading Kontakt and playing it live. Other VIs seem to behave normally in both live play and record, so it might be something contiguous to only Kontakt. Again, this only happens when I hit "Play" or "Record", or if I have recorded a MIDI track and play it back - if everything is stopped and I just play the instrument live on my keyboard, it's fine. I have also tried upping the buffers inside DP, upping the buffers inside Kontakt, turning off AU multi-processor support inside Kontakt and turning off Automatic Plugin Delay Compensation in DP. I have also recorded MIDI tracks and played them back with the same issue on recorded playback.
So far, this occurs whether the track is pre-gen or real time (Kontakt window open). It's not exactly as if the notes are truncated, it's as if parts of the notes don't get loaded. However, when playing along with my looped "click" drumbeat or recording a track, parts of the sound suddenly disappear. With the sequence stopped, I can play a record-armed instrument track of Kontakt v6.3.2 and all sounds fine. I have been trying to record a rhythm guitar track with Shreddage 3 Legacy in DP 10.13 (and earlier versions of v10). I don't recall this being an issue in earlier versions of DP, but it may very well have been. I figured I'd post this after trying unsuccessfully to get Kontakt 6.4.1 to work in DP.