Ksp reference Manual

Displaying the Advanced Engine Tab 
As mentioned earlier, the Engine tab is a sub section of the Expert tab, which can be found in the
Browser Pane.
• To access the Advanced Engine tab, hold the [Alt] key while clicking on the Engine tab.
• To return to the main Engine tab, just click on the Engine tab again with no keys held.
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Instance Overview
If you are running multiple instances of KONTAKT as a plug-in in a DAW or host, each instance
will be given an entry in this section. If you are using KONTAKT in standalone, only the current
instance will be displayed.
There are five performance statistics you can view here:
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CPU
: displays the current CPU load in percent (at a higher resolution than the other CPU read-
outs in KONTAKT) as well as the highest recorded peak CPU level (displayed in parenthesis).
You can reset the high peak by re-initializing the KONTAKT instance by clicking on the Engine
Restart (!) button.
•
Voices
: displays the total number of voices currently in use by the KONTAKT instance.
•
Voiceskilled
: displays the total number of voices that have been killed due to CPU overload
(displayed on the left) and DFD overload (displayed on the right).
•
ProcessBuffer
: displays the current audio buffer size in samples.
•
Events
: displays the total number of events currently in the event queue. While a voice is the
equivalent to a sample being played back, an event is more closely related to MIDI note mes-
sages being processed by the engine. For example, a single event could produce 3 voices, if
there are 3 samples mapped to a single note. Additionally, if you are holding a MIDI key event
though the triggered sample has finished playback, the voice will terminate, but the event will
remain in the queue. As such, this display can be useful for tracking down events that are
hanging, as these are not always audible in the way that hanging voices would be.
Total
The lower section displays the total performance statistics for all KONTAKT instances currently
loaded. It has the following parameters: 
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