I came across a few years old topic that more or less talked about the same thing but after going through it I still couldn’t get an understanding about moving VST libraries.
I don’t have enough space on my laptop to add a new 32GB library because I want to keep at least 100GB on my internal C drive.
So I thought I could maybe put this new VST library on my external hard drive or, maybe, even move all my VST libraries (the contents only of course) to external hard drives for I have two 1TB external hard drives that I have no use of (thank you cloud) and my VST libraries would all fit on one external hard drive.
Sorry for asking and the bother but really, through this modern musical journey, though I found out that the best answers come from experience, I hope you understand I want to be sure for this.
I don’t want to move my VST libraries if it may cause a problem, that would be a great loss of time.
Beware of older posts on the topic. The Library Manager is fairly recent and prior to it’s introduction there were a couple of approaches folks used to relocate libraries. Older threads discussing these methods should be ignored now that the Library Manager exists (yeah even some of my own old posts).
The only impact you might see using an external drive is increased Project load times because the VSTi’s are getting their data from a slower drive.