Sonar and Kompakt

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Anyone else using Sonar and Native Instruments Kompakt?

I am having an issue with Komptakt that is puzzling me. I'm not sure I have the sequence down, but this is what seems to happen.

I set up a midi piano track in Sonar, program it in Piano Roll View and route it to Kompakt as a DXi for playback. Later on I decide I want to try using a different DXi to audition a different piano sound, e.g., Edirol. So I insert an instance of the Edirol DXi, and change the output of the exisiting midi track to point to the Edirol. In the meantime, I leave the Kompakt DXi as is. IOW, the Kompakt track is still there but nothing is pointing to it.

After auditioning the Edirol, I decide I want to hear the Kompakt piano again. So I change the routing of the midi track back to Kompakt. (I'm not sure of this next point, but I may or may not have also changed the specific piano sample selected in Kompakt as well.)

Anyway, when I start playback I get a god-awful screech from my speakers. It pretty much stops when I stop playback, but starts again as soon as I start playback again. However, when I exit and re-enter Sonar (not having made any other changes) it will now playback fine.

I haven't tried installing/uninstalling Kompakt (I'm always a bit leery of this because of their copy protection scheme). But has anyone else experienced this, or have a guess as to what might be going on. The sound is so loud I am afraid it is going to blow my speakers some day. (And thank god I don't run a pro studio, as this would certainly scare away any paying customers.)
 
Interestingly and coincidentally I got a notice from NI today with an update patch for Kompakt. Don't know if it is related to my problem, but it says:

"...an array of enhanced and optimized features, it
also offers vastly improved DFD performance."

DFD is direct from disk streaming of samples.

Sounds promising and hopefully will be the cure for my ills.
 
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