Manage Library Locations in Product Manager?

[Greg Bass]

New computer build.  Have a drive with all up-to-date Toontrack libraries and MIDI on it from previous recording computer.  Product Manager is asking me to reinstall all of these files.  Is there a place within Product Manager to point to all ready installed product libraries?   Added bonus of this would be that Product Manager would still be able to keep track of updates.

I am NOT talking about pointing to libraries from SD3.    This is from Product Manager.

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[Henrik]

Product Manager doesn’t have the feature to change paths for installed libraries. But I’ll take a note of it as a feature request!

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Greg Bass]

Thanks for the reply.   Native Instruments Product Manager is quite nice.  It offers options for programme file, documentation and library locations.

Not directly related to this post,  Additional Libraries was grayed out in SD3.  I uninstalled and reinstalled.  No Custom option appeared for library  just VST X64 location option.  I just did the registry edit to fix it.

[123Daniel123]

Your Product Manager is a disgrace. Expensive products, crap infrastructure.

Operating system: Windows 10

[Doug Walker]

You really need to update the product manager.  Having to install products one at a time, clicking “accept” every time for the EULA, clicking button after button is really tedious and unnecessary.  It takes FOREVER to do a complete reinstall.

Operating system: Windows 10

[starfunkl]

Something like this would be amazing – so far I’m trying to get Product Manager to recognize a non-standard installation directory (an external SSD for all the sample libraries), and it’s failing to recognize products as Installed. Product Manager is janky as all hell…

Operating system: Windows 10

[John]

Hi starfunkl,

could you please elaborate?

Which products do you have and which ones are on your SSD and what do you mean with non-standard installation directory?

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[starfunkl]

Hi John,

 

I’ve got SD3. I wanted to install the library files on an external SSD, while keeping the actual SD3 VST on my C drive – I have a PC and a laptop that I use for mixing, and I want to be able to just move the external drive between them to save space on the laptop.

 

I managed to self-resolve by opening up SD3 and choosing the library locations from there. After doing that and then reopening Product Manager, Product Manager recognised the new Library installation directories.

 

Cheers,
Mark

Operating system: Windows 10

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