Luci_Musix2003Very new to Toontrack and superior so do forgive the (im assuming) relatively dumb question. I currently have an external hard drive which is unable to be written to. So I’m curious if I can move the installed SDX bundles from my Mac to the hard drive after they have been installed and after the hard drive has been sorted to be writeable. I’m sure it is possible, but I’m hesitant to install incase it is not for fear of them being stuck on my low storage Mac forever.
Mark KingYou can move them anywhere you like as long as you then point sd3 to where they are. Make sure the drive is always present before starting sd3 or your DAW. What type of drive do you have? Depending on the type of drive and the connection method will determine how quickly the kits will load.
SD3 with older sdx,s plus Rooms of Hansa and Death & Darkness. Cubase and wavelab current versions. Roland TD50x using all trigger inputs for triggering SD3 only. Windows 11 computer. Various keyboards and outboard gear as well as VST instruments. Acoustic drums: Yamaha 9000 natural wood and Pearl masters. Various snare drums. RME BabyFace Pro FS and Adam A7X monitors
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drumjack52What Mark King said. I’d be more worried why the drive became unwritable to. What type of drive? A spinner drive in a case? External SSD in a case? What’s the connection of the drive to the computer? Before you have anything done to the drive run Mac disk utility and see what it comes back with. Seeing as how it’s an external drive the problem might not be the drive but the computer port itself.
Jack
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Superior Drummer 3.4.0
Area 33 1.0.0
Death and Darkness 1.0.1
PT 2021.6
OSX 10.13.6
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Thanked by: Luci_Musix2003Luci_Musix2003It’s a 1TB External Harddrive. Theres nothing wrong with it, it’s just that it has came formatted as NTFS, so my Mac can read off of it, but can’t write onto it. So I’ve just gotta get it reformatted to APFS so that my Mac IS able to write onto it. Should be a simple job, but I am an idiot so I’m gonna wait for my dad (Super smart computer person) to be around so that if I screw it up someway theres someone around to help me fix it.
drumjack52It’s a 1TB External Harddrive. Theres nothing wrong with it, it’s just that it has came formatted as NTFS, so my Mac can read off of it, but can’t write onto it. So I’ve just gotta get it reformatted to APFS so that my Mac IS able to write onto it. Should be a simple job, but I am an idiot so I’m gonna wait for my dad (Super smart computer person) to be around so that if I screw it up someway theres someone around to help me fix it.
I’d be interested to know what exact type of drive this is and how it’s connected. That will make all the difference in performance. 1 TB isn’t all that big of a drive for samples. Undoubtedly you’ll be getting more sample libraries in the future whether for SD3 or other programs. I’d go for a minimum of 4 TB. Hard drive space is like money – you can never have too much of either. I’m using an internal 2 TB ssd in my MacPro for samples and wish I’d gone to a 4TB drive.
Jack
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Superior Drummer 3.4.0
Area 33 1.0.0
Death and Darkness 1.0.1
PT 2021.6
OSX 10.13.6
3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram
Luci_Musix2003It’s a seagate 1TB portable hard drive. It connects via USB into my laptop (I’m not sure what generation) but I’ve linked it below.
https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/products/external-hard-drives/portable-drive/
Ideally I will be getting something bigger, but I’m currently studying at university so both money and storage are low. My dad bought me the hard drive but I’m sure I’m gonna have to get some more at some point. I’m currently spending my paychescks on building my home studio, and I will hopefully be upgrading to a more powerful computer, since at the moment I’m on a 2020 MacBook Pro that struggles on both storage, power and memory. And at that point I will hopefully be getting an external drive like this – https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/products/creative-pro/lacie-d2/ which will be 4TB at the least that I can leave permanently with my computer. I appreciate my dads help in getting me the hard drive, but he did, and still does doubt just how big music stuff is, both the size of the external plugins I use and also just projects in general. But it’s what I got at the moment and I’ll find a way to make it work. I’ve got one TB more than I would have and that’s a win in my eyes 😀
drumjack52Thanks for the reply. Do NOT get that second drive you list – it’s a spinning hard drive and is only good for long term storage/archiving. For samples you really need to stay with some form of SSD. Take it from someone’s who’s been down that road and regretted it. Your MacBookPro – is it Apple Silicon or Intel?
Music software can be huge in space. Something you never want to do is to get even close to filling up any kind of hard drive. I don’t like going more than 80% full. With your next computer if you’re getting a Mac get as much ram as you can afford because it can’t be changed by the end user. And don’t be afraid of getting a refurb from the Apple Store.
Jack
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Superior Drummer 3.4.0
Area 33 1.0.0
Death and Darkness 1.0.1
PT 2021.6
OSX 10.13.6
3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram
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Thanked by: Luci_Musix2003Luci_Musix2003So for stuff like the SDX, the one that I listed (I’m assuming the second one) you’re saying it’s bad for stuff like SDX, or quick access reading stuff? But if I wanted it for things like, holding my Full projects for my albums or work I do with clients, wouldn’t it be better on something like that? Or would I still be better off not going with something like that?
drumjack52So for stuff like the SDX, the one that I listed (I’m assuming the second one) you’re saying it’s bad for stuff like SDX, or quick access reading stuff? But if I wanted it for things like, holding my Full projects for my albums or work I do with clients, wouldn’t it be better on something like that? Or would I still be better off not going with something like that?
Storage needs for the areas you mention are different. For SDX’s and other sample material you need an SSD. Faster access and transfer speeds. You really need to read up on such things and for that Google is your friend. You can have a fast connection but the slow transfer speed of a spinning drive will make you question your choice. That spinner is good for sessions, client material and archives. Don’t forget to make backups of your material. More than once they’ve saved me. Backup sessions and client material to a separate external drive that is not connected 24/7 to your computer. I do virus scans and backups once a week. My system drive (SSD) gets a drive, my samples a second drive and session on a third drive which are all spinners. My samples are on an SSD plugged into a slot on my motherboard and the internal sessions drive is a 4TB spinner also internal. The reason I do that is so that if one drive fails the whole system doesn’t go down. If the internal system drives dies I have the clone to work off of and the same for samples and sessions.
One other thing – don’t forget to take care of the incoming AC mains power. Power strips don’t do anything to protect a computer.
Jack
aka musicman691 on other forums
Superior Drummer 3.4.0
Area 33 1.0.0
Death and Darkness 1.0.1
PT 2021.6
OSX 10.13.6
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Bear-Faced CowHonestly, I would stay away from Seagate drives, as they are plagued with problems. With Black Friday around the corner 4 terabyte crucial SSDs often go for an excellent price. That and a USB-C enclosure, and you are all set. Mind you with all of the SDXs that I have I may eventually push the limits of that drive.
Formatting the drive is easy. All you need to do is open up Disk Utility and select the drive and click erase. It will ask you what type of file system you want to set up. Just select APFS and you are good to go.
moving your Superior Drummer library is also easy. Drag and drop the containing folder onto your drive and point Superior Drummer to the new location in the Libraries and Path settings. Also make sure that the drive type is set to SSD so that it can load your samples a lot faster.
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Thanked by: Luci_Musix2003drumjack52Honestly, I would stay away from Seagate drives, as they are plagued with problems. With Black Friday around the corner 4 terabyte crucial SSDs often go for an excellent price. That and a USB-C enclosure, and you are all set. Mind you with all of the SDXs that I have I may eventually push the limits of that drive.
Formatting the drive is easy. All you need to do is open up Disk Utility and select the drive and click erase. It will ask you what type of file system you want to set up. Just select APFS and you are good to go.
moving your Superior Drummer library is also easy. Drag and drop the containing folder onto your drive and point Superior Drummer to the new location in the Libraries and Path settings. Also make sure that the drive type is set to SSD so that it can load your samples a lot faster.
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Unless Apple changed things after you do the drag and drop of the SDX to the SSD the SDX will still be in the original place. So you would have it in 2 places. Just deleted the file that was in the original place.
Jack
aka musicman691 on other forums
Superior Drummer 3.4.0
Area 33 1.0.0
Death and Darkness 1.0.1
PT 2021.6
OSX 10.13.6
3.46 GHz hex core 2012 MacPro 48 gig ram
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