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what is this?
(If this needs to be moved, please feel free to do so. Couldn't make up my mind whether it belonged here, in the VST plugs section or even in the Newbies section.)
I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to go about doing this. I've got a cheap tiger direct computer (i5, win7 64bit home premium, 16gb ram) with a 500gb HD partitioned from the factory into 2 x 250gb drives. I've got Cubase loaded on the main drive, along with all of my VST plugins. The other 250gb partition is home to my VSTi files and libraries but I'm out of room. I've got a 2tb external USB3.0 (backup) drive and a firewire 1tb (music files) drive, as well as an older 80gb IDE drive in an external bay(USB 2.0) that could serve as extra storage for smaller libraries. For ease of operation, would it make more sense to move all of my VSTIs and their corresponding libraries to a single external drive or just to split them up to the 2 separate drives - 1 x 250gb existing partition and 1 x Xtb external drive?
I'm wondering because I'm out of room; I installed IvoryII (Steinway D) on an external and I've moved the .dll into the Cubase VST Plugins folder and it doesn't work. Pretty sure I need to move the .dll back to the Ivory folder and tell Cubase where to look for all other VST/VSTi files but then I'm scattered over 3 drives. I've got 2 other 30+ gb libraries yet to install and they will be going, most likely, on the 2tb drive with Ivory (I will get another 1 or 2 external drives for backup) and I'm thinking it would make more sense for all of the VST stuff to be in one area rather than spread out - at least for processing's sake. Or maybe it doesn't matter. I can mic a guitar cab but I am behind on my PC knowledge...
I'm using Cubase 7.5.X; if I left anything else out that could be useful let me know and I will fill in the gaps. Thanks in advance for reading this book...hope it's not too much!
I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to go about doing this. I've got a cheap tiger direct computer (i5, win7 64bit home premium, 16gb ram) with a 500gb HD partitioned from the factory into 2 x 250gb drives. I've got Cubase loaded on the main drive, along with all of my VST plugins. The other 250gb partition is home to my VSTi files and libraries but I'm out of room. I've got a 2tb external USB3.0 (backup) drive and a firewire 1tb (music files) drive, as well as an older 80gb IDE drive in an external bay(USB 2.0) that could serve as extra storage for smaller libraries. For ease of operation, would it make more sense to move all of my VSTIs and their corresponding libraries to a single external drive or just to split them up to the 2 separate drives - 1 x 250gb existing partition and 1 x Xtb external drive?
I'm wondering because I'm out of room; I installed IvoryII (Steinway D) on an external and I've moved the .dll into the Cubase VST Plugins folder and it doesn't work. Pretty sure I need to move the .dll back to the Ivory folder and tell Cubase where to look for all other VST/VSTi files but then I'm scattered over 3 drives. I've got 2 other 30+ gb libraries yet to install and they will be going, most likely, on the 2tb drive with Ivory (I will get another 1 or 2 external drives for backup) and I'm thinking it would make more sense for all of the VST stuff to be in one area rather than spread out - at least for processing's sake. Or maybe it doesn't matter. I can mic a guitar cab but I am behind on my PC knowledge...
I'm using Cubase 7.5.X; if I left anything else out that could be useful let me know and I will fill in the gaps. Thanks in advance for reading this book...hope it's not too much!