Native Instruments DRUMS OverKILL Operation Manual page 27

plug-in formats, outputs are selected dynamically via the host (please check
respective host documentation for details). If your host does not allow you to
remove unused channels, these channels might still use CPU. Kontakt Player 2
will automatically mute all unused channels and thus lower CPU usage within
the Kontakt Player 2 engine.
A default configuration is kept which is used as soon as Kontakt Player 2 is
started. Kontakt Player 2 keeps a separate default config setting for every
flavor of Kontakt Player 2; in other words, standalone, VST, AU, DXi, RTAS all
have their own output configurations. In order to change the output config,
you need to first organize the outputs the way you want and then click on
the "make default" button in the Output section. This ensures that at next
startup the outputs are the way you set them.
Another way to store and recall an output configuration is for plug-in use only
– it is trickier and needs careful handling. The output configuration is also
stored together with a plug-in's total recall data, which means that a saved
song will be recalled with the output config it was saved with. This means
that a recalled song might contain a Kontakt Player 2 instance with outputs
differing from the default configuration; or it might even contain several
Kontakt Player 2 instances using entirely different output configurations.
This bears a lot of potential trouble and practically no host can effectively
handle this situation.
This is why Kontakt Player 2 has to declare its output requirements the first
time an instance gets plugged in; this cannot be changed from that point on.
The host thinks Kontakt Player 2 has only one output configuration, being
the stored default config. This is why it is a good idea to stick to the default
configuration and make every change in the default itself (by clicking on "make
default"). When using Kontakt Player 2 as a plug-in in a sequencer, it's also
advisable to unplug and then replug all instances after a fundamental change
and / or reloading the song.
"Reset Out Map" (reset output mapping) restores the output mapping to the
default settings. Kontakt Player 2 allows you to freely map each of the output
channels to the available physical outputs. The button automates this in a
simple default way: all physical outputs are assigned to Kontakt Player 2's
output channels until they are used up. Take for example the new -channel
VST version; if the user has Kontakt Player 2 set up to use 2 stereo and 
mono outputs, and he presses the make default button, then the  available
plug-in outs will be fully assigned to the available Kontakt Player 2's output
strips (1-2, 3-, 5, , , ). The aux channels, coming after the "normal"
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