Brooks HIs there a convenient way to get user presets & favorited MIDI grooves onto a 2nd computer?
Thanks
SD3 v3.3.6, EZbass v1.1.7, EZkeys v1.3.4
Studio One v5.5.2, Cubase v12.0.60
3.6GHz Intel i9 iMac, 64GB RAM, OS 12.6.1
Bear-Faced CowI believe one of the menu items in the User Presets is “Manage in Finder”. That will take you right to the preset in the ~/Library/Application Support/ directory.
One way to share these with your other computers automagically is to move the presets directory to your cloud drive directory and set up a symlink (assuming MacOS) in the Toontrack preset directory pointing to cloud drive. Do the same on your other computer. In a few moments, your presets are shared between both computers.
jord
Brooks HI believe one of the menu items in the User Presets is “Manage in Finder”. That will take you right to the preset in the ~/Library/Application Support/ directory.
And I could just copy that and save it in the same location on the other computer?
Any chance fovorited grooves are also in App Support?
One way to share these with your other computers automagically is to move the presets directory to your cloud drive directory and set up a symlink (assuming MacOS) in the Toontrack preset directory pointing to cloud drive. Do the same on your other computer. In a few moments, your presets are shared between both computers.
I would love to automate this, but hate using cloud drives. I’ll see how (in)convenient the manual way is and go from there.
Thanks!
SD3 v3.3.6, EZbass v1.1.7, EZkeys v1.3.4
Studio One v5.5.2, Cubase v12.0.60
3.6GHz Intel i9 iMac, 64GB RAM, OS 12.6.1
Bear-Faced CowI believe all of your favourites are in that directory. I could be wrong, however, but I know the presets are.
All I can say is if you hate cloud drives, then you’re probably not using them to your advantage. 😀
Between my computers, phone and tablet, the data I need is always accessible to me. I’m often playing with SD3 with my laptop when I am either on a plane or out of the house doing something. Once I hook up to the cloud, my presets and projects are shared with my main music computer ready for me to flesh them out.
jord
Brooks HI believe all of your favourites are in that directory. I could be wrong, however, but I know the presets are.
All I can say is if you hate cloud drives, then you’re probably not using them to your advantage. 😀
Between my computers, phone and tablet, the data I need is always accessible to me. I’m often playing with SD3 with my laptop when I am either on a plane or out of the house doing something. Once I hook up to the cloud, my presets and projects are shared with my main music computer ready for me to flesh them out.
jord
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You’re right. I don’t use them much at all. This is the 1st time ever I’ve had a “road computer”. I’ve been backing up & sharing everything manually. Not too bad when it’s just projects. But favorites, presets and such, it’s becoming a pain.
Toontrack should consider having their own cloud. I just starting using Addictive Drums cloud for this same thing.
SD3 v3.3.6, EZbass v1.1.7, EZkeys v1.3.4
Studio One v5.5.2, Cubase v12.0.60
3.6GHz Intel i9 iMac, 64GB RAM, OS 12.6.1
Bear-Faced CowConsidering that I’m just as much out of the house as I am in, the cloud is a very useful tool for me. Being able to go between computers is almost a necessity for me.
As for a Toontrack cloud solution, we already have enough general cloud solutions available. They should just provide the ability to hook in without the need for geeks like me posting tech.
What is really needed are more online collaboration networks, but that’s more of a DAW issue. Logic used to have one until it was acquired by Apple.
jord
Bear-Faced CowFollowing up on how I set this up on my Macs, in case anyone else is interested in doing the same between their computers:
To start, I’m using Google Drive. You can use many of the available cloud drive solutions, with the possible exception of iCloud because Apple writes things a little weird to their directories (and perhaps injects some metadata that could interfere with SD3). I created a folder called Superior Drummer 3. In a new Finder window I went to the SD3 folder in Application Support (use menu item GO -> Go to Folder or shift-cmd-G and enter the following: ~/Library/Application Support/Toontrack/Superior3)
Move the following folders into your cloud drive:
(If any are missing, it’s because you haven’t create any presets)
Open the Terminal app (don’t worry, it doesn’t bite) and type the following:
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Toontrack/Superior3
ln -s ~/Google\ Drive/Superior\ Drummer\ 3/UserSongStructures/ UserSongStructures
ln -s ~/Google\ Drive/Superior\ Drummer\ 3/MicPresets/ MicPresets
ln -s ~/Google\ Drive/Superior\ Drummer\ 3/EdrumPresets/ EdrumPresets
ln -s ~/Google\ Drive/Superior\ Drummer\ 3/VelocityPresets/ VelocityPresets
ln -s ~/Google\ Drive/Superior\ Drummer\ 3/PresetsEZX/ PresetsEZX
ln -s ~/Google\ Drive/Superior\ Drummer\ 3/EffectPresets/ EffectPresets
On your other computer, just copy the presets into the cloud drive folders (they should be sync’d by the time you’re done) and erase those folders do the same in the Terminal app.
Your files are now sync’d type and SD3 on both computers should show everything that you have sync’d up in the cloud drive. Any new presets or song structures will automatically be saved to the cloud drive and sync’d up.
jord
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Thanked by: Brooks HBrooks HGreatly appreciated Bear-Faced Cow.
That’s why I suggest Toontrack implement their own cloud though. With Addictive Drums 2 for example, all I had to do was download the Cloud Sync portion of their app. It’s automated from there by simply clicking on the preset section of the GUI.
SD3 v3.3.6, EZbass v1.1.7, EZkeys v1.3.4
Studio One v5.5.2, Cubase v12.0.60
3.6GHz Intel i9 iMac, 64GB RAM, OS 12.6.1
Olof WestmanWhile not being exactly on topic I still wanted to mention that since S3.1.3 you can change the path to where the user presets reside. It’s at the bottom of the Settings>Libraries/Paths page.
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Thanked by: Bear-Faced Cow and Brooks HBrooks HWhile not being exactly on topic I still wanted to mention that since S3.1.3 you can change the path to where the user presets reside. It’s at the bottom of the Settings>Libraries/Paths page.
Hmm. This might be a better option for me. I can put them on my external SSD which is shared by both my computers. Thanks!
But I do need to get acquainted with the cloud. Manual backups are becoming a pain with a 2nd computer. I was thinking Dropbox.
SD3 v3.3.6, EZbass v1.1.7, EZkeys v1.3.4
Studio One v5.5.2, Cubase v12.0.60
3.6GHz Intel i9 iMac, 64GB RAM, OS 12.6.1
Bear-Faced CowWhile not being exactly on topic I still wanted to mention that since S3.1.3 you can change the path to where the user presets reside. It’s at the bottom of the Settings>Libraries/Paths page.
Oh seriously? You mean if I would have scrolled just a bit further I could have saved my geekiness for the office? 😀
At least THAT should work with iCloud if one needs to use it. I’ll keep my symlinks for now, however. SD3 doesn’t know any different.
jord
Bear-Faced CowWhile not being exactly on topic I still wanted to mention that since S3.1.3 you can change the path to where the user presets reside. It’s at the bottom of the Settings>Libraries/Paths page.
Hmm. This might be a better option for me. I can put them on my external SSD which is shared by both my computers. Thanks!
But I do need to get acquainted with the cloud. Manual backups are becoming a pain with a 2nd computer. I was thinking Dropbox.
Just set up Dropbox and point SD3 to it as Olof pointed out. It’s just another directory on your computer, and his directions are far easier… but at least 8 steps. 😀
jord
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