I just noticed that on my last reinstall, that I put all of the included sound content (Loopmash, Halion Sonic SE, REVerence, MIDI Loop Library, Amp Rack) on my main boot drive.
Is there an easy way to throw the content onto my sample drive and then reassign their path in the VST instrument interfaces?
I guess maybe u cant thenā¦only Halion Sonic SE has the option to redirect the sample folder. Iād be careful with that though as I was plagued with probs when I upgraded my HDās last time and none of the presets would appear, even though it was pointed at the right folder. I think thereās some other threads around here about thatā¦mine suddenly reappeared after reinstalling a few times, restarting my computer, etc.
I dont understandā¦like āCreate a Shortcutā, and then place that shortcut where the files are now? Interestingā¦might give that a try!
I agree, that is an intersting idea. If it works for you let me know? I am not too overwhelmed with sound files but this will be an issue in the future, Iām sure. Right now I have the trial C7 on my C drive and to make things easier I duplicated all my sound files in either version of Cubase, 6.5 & 7. It hadnāt occured to me to tag a redirect in the file.
ThatĀ“s what Cubase does itself, when doing a custom installation with a different than the default locations. And IIRC IĀ“ve done this also with successs - but itĀ“s on your own risk of course.
I once tried something similar with (IIRC) the documentation folder for an old version of Cubase, but it didnāt work.
AFAIK, the method where you create (whatās it called?) a hard link(?) does work for this kind of thing - ie where the OS is made to regard a folder as if itās part of another drive. But Iāve always been wary of risking that kind of thing.
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Because I didnāt know it was possible to delete it.
And, actually, I still canāt see how to delete it - perhaps itās become impossible now that itās not the last post of the thread?
Edit: I see that I can currently delete this message - thereās a delete button (marked X). I didnāt notice that being there when I wanted to remove the duplicate message, above.
I donāt use halion sonic but I have installed the soundsets so iāll give it a go for you and see what happens as I would like to free up some disk space
Not exactly Cubase, but Iām using it for EW Play libraries. Some of EW libraries like Hollywood Strings and Brass are quite big in size, so Iāve used the Junction thing to move parts of those libraries to a small SSD. I have just one mic position from those libraries on an SSD, while the rest is on another HD, where EW Play thinks I have everything in.
I went with this method for my setup because it was recommended over using shortcut at EW forum. I canāt remember exactly why shortcut was not good enough, to be honest. Hereās a description of the difference between a symbolic link and a shortcut I found on the net :
A āshortcutā is effectively a file that holds the filepath of another file. When you read it, you read a specially formatted file that tells you where to look next. If your application doesnāt listen, and simply reads the file verbatim, then you donāt follow it. A symbolic link is filesystem-level, itās the filesystem itself that holds the ātrueā path to the data and when you attempt to access it, you retrieve the data pointed to.
Since thinkingcap says a shortcut will work with Cubase, I think you should try that one first.
That looks nice, but with the introduction of Cubase Pro 10 itās also unnecessary. With C10 the āSteinberg Library Managerā is also installed. In it, you can see all locations of currently installed VST instruments/sounds. And you can point to another location and all will be moved!