Does Superior Drummer support it's sound library data to be installed on APFS?

[Dave_26]

Though it seems that Superior Drummer 3 itself seems to install fine on Catalina, I would like to know if it’s supported/OK yet to install the actual drum sample libraries on APFS-formatted mac boot or data drives now?

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.1.6
Operating system: macOS Catalina (10.15)

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[John]

Hi,

I have a lot of products installed on my internal drive on my MacBook Pro, which is APFS formatted. No problems.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Dave_26]

Thanks much. That’s great to hear.

[Erlvis]

I’ve read that it’s better to keep your libraries on an external drive. I use both an Intel and Apple Silicon Macbook Pro. Do you get the same benefit from putting your sound libraries on a different APFS volume on the same APFS container that you would by putting your sound libraries on a different physical disk?

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.7
Operating system: macOS Monterey (12)

[Dave_26]

Performance will always be better when you put sample libraries on a different physical drive than your OS drive. That being said, if you have enough RAM and don’t have a lot of constant swapping around to do with your drum kit, once you load it, it’s not some horrible awful thing if your samples are on your OS drive.

I have a mid 2014 MacBook Pro with my SD3 library installed right on the internal 1 TB SSD and it works just fine.

[Erlvis]

Thanks. If you have to use the built in drive, does it help to make a different volume for the libraries?

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.2.7
Operating system: macOS Monterey (12)

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