Distributing Sound Libraries Between Two Drives?

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Are there any repercussions for moving a few of my sound libraries to another drive while keeping other ones on a certain drive? Main reason I’m asking is because I like to keep a basic working library on my laptop for when I am travelling, and I don’t need every drum library on it (although I love and use all the ones I have). Therefore, when I am back home, I can simply hook up my external drive and use the other libraries. As this is my computer to sketch out ideas and not record, latency and such are not issues at play. I’m more concerned about if I make the PM go PMS if I do move some of them.

Pending that, I could always do things the geeky UNIX way and the PM wouldn’t know the difference.

jord

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.4
Operating system: macOS Mojave (10.14)

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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[John]

Hi,

SDX:s can reside on different drives, so they can be moved and then pointed to in the PM or SD3.
One SDX library can’t be split though.

The EZX:s+MIDI all need to be in the same location and in your case, I’d have that location on the internal drive.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Bear-Faced Cow]

I’m not concerned about the MIDI, although I could probably symlink the user MIDI at some point, as I would want to share them between my computers. . I’m considering more of the SDXs that I use more when writing and putting the others on my external drive. I find that my go-to’s when writing are pretty much shortlisted. The others come into play when editing and mixing.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Olof Westman]

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Note that you can have two paths specified for an SDX. The idea is that you can have a small installation on your laptop and a full installation on your external drive. SD will then choose to use the path that points to the largest installation.

Olof Westman - Toontrack
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[Bear-Faced Cow]

I didn’t even consider that. I like that idea even more! Could be useful for further sketching ideas.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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