Originally Posted By: MarioD
Good advice thus far. I will add make sure your anti-stuff is not operating during your loading. When I work on my music computer I make sure nothing is working in the background, including my anti-virus; note that I disable my Ethernet card also.

Also you mentioned that you are using a fast hard drive. There was a huge difference in Kontakt patch loading times when I went to an SSD. I mean from minutes to seconds on my large patches. Also with a SSD you can purge the patches and run straight from the SSD. This saves CPU power and I have noticed no difference in RAM or SSD in latency, i.e. no latency.

{edit} - An after thought. If you are running Kontakt and the patches on the same drive you are really taking a hit in load times. Kontakt should be on one drive and the patches on another drive, preferably a SSD.

Thanks Mario! I managed to add an exclusion for Kontakt to my Avast and that improved the situation. Although I don't yet have a SSD big enough for all my samples, I do have Kontakt on one SSD drive and the samples on a different drive.