[falcowe]

I wish someone from the AVID ProTools team would chime in on this. It is mildly frustrating, and somewhat confusing why ProTools is so bad at dealing with Kontakt hosted VIs (and VIs in general). I mean I took the VEPro route and haven't had too many issues but still even VEPro will occasionally have issues in ProTools. In fact in earlier troubleshooting (which still hasn't officially been resolved) I was having issues where VEPro was causing ProTools to crash/hang because apparently I had many VEPro streams feeding Exponential Audio reverbs. Not sure if this is still an issue but I haven't seen anything official mentioning a fix for this. And I haven't been having issues with it since switch back to OSX a month or so ago.

Anyway Michael your heartbeat theory sound pretty good to me. Certianly better than anything I could come up with.