How To Save RAM when Composing with Kontakt - Tips & Tricks

[@Composerily]

Thanks Alex! Just subscribed to your channel! Loving the content. Can you do a tutorial on articulations in Fl studio? I would like know how you deal with switching articulations.

[@twinkleestar4885]

Composerily i learn so many things from u

[@phantomarchive]

I love u

[@xuhuiming2694]

He uses BRSO Articulate

[@MitchellBroom]

First, but seriously I needed this so much because of my weak little laptop! Thank you Alex!

[@landofviking]

Another tip is to store your Kontakt Librairies on a SSD and use the DFD option on Kontakt to stream the samples a little more from the disk and less from the RAM. You can save up a lot of RAM with that technique. I don't recommend doing this on a HDD cause usually, streaming from the disk is slower than RAM and you don't wanna spend an hour loading a patch, lol. Or you can be like Dirk Ehlert and get 64Gb of RAM! :D Anyway, nice work, Alex.

[@jiat_spacejams]

Thank you man, this is a game changer for me. Kontakt used to be my nemesis, always creeping around the corner just waiting to crash ableton, straight killing my vibe. Not no more.

[@tuck295q]

Is this the reason why I get the “kontakt is running out of memory, we are going to crash soldier!”? When I try to open my work on cubase? 😂

[@jiat_spacejams]

@@tuck295q yeah i was getting those same errors, it's a ram issue. try razer cortex and/or getting more ram

[@tuck295q]

Nic Allen for real!? I have a laptop, not sure if I can change ram to go up. Im broke from getting so many instruments for kontakt. I just try to go into one of them taking whole entire night and tried to disabled all instruments.... It worked and load so quickly now. 😂 But that would mean I have to keep disable before quitting and make sure I dont turn on too many of them.

[@jiat_spacejams]

@@tuck295q you can upgrade ram on a laptop pretty easy. The process of replacing/adding a stick is not difficult whatsoever. Just find a stick thats the same frequency and slap it in there. You can get em cheap off ebay. But try razer cortex, it frees up ram and disables unnecessary processes. It frees up to 1.2 gbs of ram when i use it

[@tuck295q]

Nic Allen kay, I’ll try to get it up as high as possible. Then start saving again for new comp.

[@abelgeorge4953]

I cant thank you enough!!! I have been following you for a while now and just now discovered this video and you saved my life

[@FilipLackovicMusic]

Wow :) Thank you Alex, I always had to export my stems to clear the RAM for next tracks, this is a life saver :) Keep up the great work, your channel is full of great tips :)

[@markobojovic1024]

Mozes da mi pomognes? Video sam u jednom od klipova da Alex u pattern-u ima grupe ( A, B, C, D..), na mestu gde pise Grupa A, tu mu je aktiviran sampler( Kontakt ) a ispod su instrumenti koji su aktivirani u toj grupi (A). On je prakticno napravio pattern tako da mu ide grupa A na pocetku tipa, i onda ispod toga idu instrumenti iz te grupe, pa onda B grupa, takodje instrumenti iz te grupe itd... Izgleda mi kao da ima ukljucenih 5 kontakta a aktivirano 30+ instrumenata.

[@CinematicSoundMaestro]

It was just a few hours ago i was looking for a solution on ram when it comes to big arrangements (im doing music for a commercial and my 14gbs of ram are not quit enough). So.... you saved me from hours of searching for a solution.

[@mestayno]

Thank you so much! You just saved my entire project since it was unplayable by disck, and cpu usage.

[@LoneWolfAudio0524]

I really appreciated this tutorial. Our use reaper, and every time I open the project it takes forever to load. I will absolutely give this a try. Thank you for all your hard work.

[@audiolab303]

Great tip . Thank you for pointing this out. I had no idea this could be done.

[@Jamminn555]

So great man! Thanks so much for this. I've wondered about this forever!! Cheers.

[@donaldsuitemusic8902]

Great tip on this Alex ! My Mac Mini is full 16 meg of ram always lags because of this reason. i will have to remember to do this.Thanks Don

[@willb3698]

You win the internet today in 2019.

[@FateofTheFallenOFCL]

Holy shit. THANK YOU. I'm tried of my whole computer glitching out and taking forever to load my sessions.

[@AlexMoukala]

There's another couple of ways of optimizing Kontakt for better CPU usage, for example. Will make videos about those too.

[@yulinghuang2037]

wow this is exactly what I've been looking for!! Thank you so much lol

[@Honeystain]

Wow great tip! I was gonna buy some more RAM but this will save me the money! Thanks!

[@reso372]

Really helpful video, as always! Keep it up!

[@EminoMeneko]

Thanks for the tip. That makes a huge difference 30MB against 0.85 GB. I can't really try it though. I only have Kontakt Player for now.

[@soulfulofnoise]

YOU ARE THE GOAT FOR THIS!!!! THANK YOU

[@NTxComposer]

You saved my life. Thank you!

[@RandomNoise]

Excellent tips! thank you for that info.

[@scoretosettle6568]

Thanks so much for this. Helps a lot!

[@keimah4041]

Very useful. Thank you for your time

[@MONSTABEATZ1]

Awesome tutorial!! Thanks a lot Alex!

hey thanks:) where can I find the other video you talked about about the kontakt template where you have lot´s of instruments loaded and can use them? :)

[@alexisargote]

Thanks Alex that was really helpful

[@christianclavecin]

Dude.. THANK YOU

[@prod_adrian]

Very helpful!! Thank you!👌

[@walt234234]

Awesome, thanks for the gold!

[@vojinljubisavljevic4036]

Two questions, just so I make sure I understood everything well. Firstly, if whenever I open a particular project I'm working and there are too many samples that I should I purge, should I purge the samples every time I open the project? And secondly, should I purge samples both before I've composed anything - with the kontakt and the instruments opened in it - and after I've made a composition?

[@MusicTutorJay]

Thank you so much..... Wonderful

[@daddydanny5588]

thanx for sharing .. how many ram do u use?

[@freudobas3914]

Man you save me some money. I was about to buy an external hard drive.

[@mattinnerfrost7415]

Awesome! thank you so much

[@heyasmusic7553]

you saved my life

[@romeodefirenze2987]

thx for the tips bro

[@DolorsMusic]

Thanks mann I really appreciate it🤝🏾✋🏾

[@metallpt147]

Can someone answer this question for me. I should probably experiment more but so you know how towards the end when he has like 10-15 instruments loaded in one instance of Kontakt, if you want certain instruments with different volumes, would you just use a mod wheel or just lower the fader on the actual instrument itself or something like that? Basically when I do it with multiple instruments in one instance and change the volume of a track, they all change together

[@omid5689]

im using this library ark 1 but for some of instruments in this library i cant change velocity can you please let me know how did you fixed this problem ?

[@deepak6529]

Nice......how come ur fl studio 12 is showing the used ram in the ram meter...how to get that

[@TheSelfAwareIndianEmpath]

Will it load only the purged samples next time after I saved and closed my DAW project purging all my kontakt instances?

[@CroElectroStile]

do i need to play the melody first and the do the update purge? how do you do it in order? or can i when i open the kontakt library purge all it and then start to play?

[@AndreasvanHaren]

I did the purging and yes, the ram amount in the kontakt instances went to 0, but still, Logic itself kept on using the same amount of ram in memory. This can be seen in the activity monitor (Mac OS). Even after having restarted Logic and all the Kontakt instances are showing 0 mb ram used, according to the activity monitor, Logic is still using that same amount of ram.

[@Sidnet91]

when i play some multi samples (samples at the same time same midi channel) with metropolis ark 1. one of the sample sound stop at the middle of the midi note. 100 % disk (red) at that time. how to fix that

[@PLCMusicMaker]

You rule! Thank you!

[@smithasher5690]

thank you so much!

[@tom22333]

Hey Alex, is there any way to create a template in FL studio and have it load your instances of kontakt already purged? Thanks!

[@mybiggrin]

Do you think it's harder or easier on your computer to have multiple instruments loaded into one instance of Kontakt like you have in this video? Or easier on your computer to have multiple instances of Kontakt for each articulation?

[@selvakumarselva3583]

Thanks man! Life saver

[@lac19951]

@Alex Moukala Man please give tips for export settings and FL settings for best audio quality without popping and crackling sounds please help man :(

[@vignesh19]

what is the difference between update sample pool and purge all samples ?

[@tuck295q]

Is this the reason why I cant open some of my cubase file now because I overloaded so many kontakt instruments and havent purged any of them...?

[@hodshonf]

Fantastic!

[@iiSlayer]

can this be done while using east west in play. does anyone know

[@nishchalbhardwaj6841]

thanks alex:)I was recording, my yamaha fell down and broke during..is there any way to record midi using computer keyboard on kontakt and fls 12? early thanks.

[@mythalaklnm8774]

What about converting complete patterns to wave samples and use them on ur playlist? Just i have very little amount of ram ( 1 gb sbt ) =( Atm i use EDISON, but some times when i make new samples they get some white noise, maybe u know some better ways to make samples?

[@MrChanlokyin]

wow, thanks a lot

[@mrsamir]

Hey Man! thank you for those great tutorials about score making. I have a little problem about the kontakt library THE GIANT. When i am trying to increase the Space amount (the large reverb thing) its sounding so weird. Some of my friend saying its my CPU processing problem. But i have a 8 core processor and its better for music making.. Any possible solution from you brother ? thanks

[@AlexMoukala]

Mr. Samir if you mean you get some pops and crackles, I have the same issue with that library sometimes. Not what's the cause, but it's usually gone when you tweak the dry / wet / distance parameters

[@mrsamir]

yes ! pops and crackles, i solve this issue adjusting buffer size... thanks

[@alexandergermanov4528]

Cool thanks👍

[@konstantinkvashuk9024]

Thank you

[@my_sideproject3815]

You using Ultimate 11?

[@yashhanj6564]

how much ram do you have alex? I also want to ask that I am using cinematic strings,cinebrass,action strikes ane many more heavy libraries... sometimes my fl studio goes into underrun and produces the crackling sounds and renders the the track very badly.... when I hear the rendered track it chops the sounds which are legatto... why this is happening? is it due to my 8gb ram?? or should I expand more ram???

[@AlexMoukala]

It might be due to your FL settings and maybe a lack of optimization. Write a post on the FL forum to ask for support there about it!

[@damondahl]

THANK YOU

[@JayReed124]

how much ram do you have on yiur macbook?

[@cesmcmyth]

Nice vid, nive info. thx. Just your pointer - cursor made me freking dizzy.

[@anastav6915]

I think nowadays 32gigs are necessary especially for orchestral compositions.

[@unclesam530]

how do you play a instrument when it's assigned to midi ch 2? i can only play midi ch 1

[@drumfrik]

Your track I/O must be set up (as input) on midi ch2 as well. Otherwise you'll hear nothing...

[@unclesam530]

+Cem Gelgun sorry i dont know how.I want to use 1 instance of Kontakt, load multiple instruments then assign them to different midi channels so i can play parts separate in 1 pattern in the piano roll if possible.the only way i know is using midi out but i'd have to load a bunch.I have a midi keyboard but dont know how to change it's midi channel in FL

[@drumfrik]

Hi, i don't get this sentence "so i can play parts separate in 1 pattern in the piano roll if possible". Are you trying to play multiple instruments at the same time, assigned in different parts (octaves) of the piano roll? If i'm right, i don't know if it's possible. Anyway, normally, when you load multiple instruments in kontakt, each instruments are automatically assigned on a different midi channel (as A(1), A(2) etc...) Then you go to the edit window of your DAW (FL) and assign as inputs the following channels. It will be Input -> Kontakt channel 1, then for the next track Input -> Kontakt channel 2 etc... Hope I was able to help you.

[@unclesam530]

+Cem Gelgun "play multiple instruments at the same time, assigned in different parts (octaves) of the piano roll" yes thats what i was trying to do i finally figured it out, thank you

[@Anton-wq3rz]

Thank you! What is the difference between "Update sample pool" and "Purge all samples"?

[@kurttomlinsoncompositions1067]

Update sample pool deletes every sample except the notes you have triggered in the project. Purge just deletes them all until you trigger them.

[@novenayherrera1936]

PC specifications?

[@EfisioCross]

❤️

[@MrSwarup3]

YEAH but did you see fl studio RAM option ? .85 GB and 30 MB ... fl studio ram remain 10565..... this is the problem with fl studio so you can't set a large template.. i think fl studio is a RAM eater DAW... but i still use Fl Studio. there's only one option to get rid of that is close your fl and open again .... .. anyway thanks for this tutorial .... pls provide us a free orchestral template ... becoz yours templates are nicely organised .....thanks ... sorry for my bad english

[@AlexMoukala]

That remained around 10k of RAM because the project had lots of other stuff loaded into it. :D By the way, there's ways to save RAM in FL too. Try the smart disable function in the settings.

[@MrSwarup3]

thanks for quick reply :D

[@davidklemencz]

Yeah :) Purge Purge Purge :)

[@BHB_STL]

This is torture looking at a computer with 10k ram compared to my 3k smh!

[@heikkiketola7127]

You are lucky not to use EastWest samples. They are a pain in the ass when it comes to performance.

[@FrancescoBarberaMusic]

PLAY 5 has helped alot with that, espeically now that they have a cache level function built in

[@lando2051]

TLDW: Purge

[@EminoMeneko]

I haz 32GB of RAM BTW. :)

[@Nickoking12]

Daniel James made the same video like 2 years ago but thanks anyway lol

[@anikamusik]

Thank you!

[@otvicious6296]

You saved my life