ejonesdrums1Mac 2015 27” Retina, 8gb Ram
Montery 12.1
Roland TD50X into Mac with USB Cable as input
Focusrite 4i4 as output
I’ve owned SD3 for about 4 years now. I’m a c0mplete noob when it comes to sound processing, e drum settings, etc etc. Hell, it took me 4 years to realise for SD3 to ”sound and feel” nice to play on e-drums I had to change the default gain levels on my Roland module! Since then I’ve made some progress with shaping the sounds etc and exploring SD3 a little more.
My hard drive on the Mac is as good as full. So I decided to buy an SSD to put Superior Drummer on instead and I was going to put my Progressive Foundry SDX on it and maybe buy Rooms of Hansa.
I de-authed my Mac and set about attempting to uninstall. I used the uninstallers provided. I assumed this would be all I needed to do. When I tried to reinstall part 1, it would not let me do it on the hard drive of the Mac, it still said the disk was nearly full. I assumed after uninstalling everything that it would free up the 260gb. After this, I tried to install SD3 to the SSD instead. I could not get it to load, it appears the folder on the SSD was incomplete with not everything it needed. I could not figure it out and started to become increasingly frustrated. In the end I used spotlight search to find any and every Superior Drummer folder I could and deleted them and emptied the trash. I now wish I never did that. Reaper and GarageBand will no longer open, I’m getting errors, my product manager has disappeared off of my Mac
Somewhere along the line I have messed up majorly and would be very grateful for some help asap to rectify the issue. I’ve seen so many conflicting how to’s regarding SSD’s and Superior Drummer and somehow I’ve got confused and now I’m in a real mess.
The error print out is huge, not really sure if I should post the whole thing here or not, it actually won’t let me upload a screenshot it’s saying the file is too big.
Path: /Applications/REAPER.app/Contents/MacOS/REAPER
It is saying this for GarageBand too. They won’t open. My plan was to re download (!!!!!!!) Superior Drummer 3, install it on my SSD, but in the meantime use my Roland sounds/module with Reaper and or GarageBand so I can continue working on projects. But they won’t open. I am desperate for help at this point I’m completely stumped.
many thanks
Mark KingAll you needed to do was move the sound library to the ssd and then point sd3 towards it.
If you have deleted everything then you need to download the toontrack assistant and log back into it. Set your download location the the external drive and start from scratch downloading everything you need and install sd3 again.
If that doesn’t work then you may have some files than manually need removing if you didn’t do a proper uninstall originally. I think a Mac person would have to help on this point as I’m pc only.
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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Thanked by: Scott Eshleman and ejonesdrums1ejonesdrums1Thanks for the reply. I only realised afterwards I could and should have just moved the library. Saw some conflicting posts on how to’s and got confused.
I’ll get to downloading everything again, I’ll be back and update this post in 10 years when it’s finally finished downloading
UnclebassAs mentioned above- you can just move libraries and redirect them next time.
Download the product manager. The SD3 software has to be on your hard drive but the libraries can live on external SSDs. Try to reinstall the main software and get that working. Then additional libraries later
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Thanked by: ejonesdrums1ejonesdrums1So should I just download everything my HDD and move it to SDD afterwards?
I read back on the first reply and saw it said about setting the download path to my SSD. I clicked ‘instillation info’ on Part 1 Sound Library in Product manager, clicked clear path, tried to set the path to my SSD, it just says ‘set path to installed library’ and if I click my SSD it says the selected folder is not a valid instillation.
I’m due to take the Mac to a friends for him to download it as my internet is just far too slow, just want to clear this up before I take it to him.
Thanks guys for all your help. Sorry for my noobieness.
ejonesdrums1I’ve since found ToonTrack Product Manager Preferences > Download Location, and changed it to my SSD
So do I just need to download and install the 663 mb SD3 standalone program on my HDD then I can put part 1, 2, 3, 4 and additional bleed/sdx on my SSD?
many thanks
UnclebassI installed SD3 on my internal HD ( w/o the last additional bleed mics) then all my other SDX and EZX libraries on an external SSD. Midi is automatically installed on the internal HD.
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Thanked by: ejonesdrums1ejonesdrums1Hello again
I was hoping to be able to have all the sound libraries on the SSD including the core. Is this possible? I share this Mac with my partner. Before I deleted it we had 20gb of storage left and it was starting to cause us grief, which is where the SSD idea came from. If I’m to download part 1/2/3/4 to my HDD I’ll be pretty much in the same situation again. I wanted to have them on the SSD then I’d finally be able to use Progressive Foundry as well which I own and was thinking of buying Rooms of Hansa.
Am I stuffed? My partner can’t / won’t delete stuff off the Mac.
Many thanks
Elliot
ejonesdrums1So I’ve reinstalled the standalone program on my HDD and the Toontrack folder has reappeared in Applications with the standalone program and product manager. It all loads and works. I just need to download the files again which I’m planning to have a friend do on faster internet. Hopefully I’m on the right track with:
Scott EshlemanPlease note that the DOWNLOAD location and the INSTALLATION location are 2 different locations in the eyes of the installer,
even you put them on the same drive.
The Program Manager settings determine where the DOWNLOAD files are stored.
The Product installer will copy, expand or utilize the downloaded files to the INSTALLATION location.
Therefore, you will need to allocate twice the space required;
at least until the installation is completed after which the download files can be cleaned off the drive.
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Thanked by: ejonesdrums1ejonesdrums1Roger that gotcha, thank you for laying it out like that, I think I get it now
Is the stored download loacation on HDD important? Can I just put it in Users/Documents on a Mac and not need to worry?
Then install them to the SSD and clear HDD after?
many thanks
BradRoger that gotcha, thank you for laying it out like that, I think I get it now
Is the stored download loacation on HDD important? Can I just put it in Users/Documents on a Mac and not need to worry?
Then install them to the SSD and clear HDD after?
many thanks
Exactly. You download to whatever location you want (users)/(name)/Documents is fine. Then when you install from Product Manager you should have the option to install Part 1, of the sound library to your SSD, the other parts will follow.
Once you have finished installing, use the “Cleanup” button in Product Manager to remove the downloaded files.
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ejonesdrums1THANKYOU!!! All sorted. All my other apps (Reaper/Garageband/Imovie) all working again as well. Had a friend download and install the core library and progressive foundry for me. 6 hours to do 350GB. I just purchased Rooms of Hansa. Currently 19 hours in, 107gb done, 14 to go! Toaster internet!
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