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Simple Komplete/Hard Drive Question
Hello,
So I bought Komplete 11 Ultimate and want to download it to my external hard drive. The only thing I have on this hard drive is a few PT sessions that I run it from. Question: Since the PT 12 program is downloaded on my Mac, once I put Komplete 11 on my hard drive will I be able to run a PT session with Komplete added? I am just checking since Komplete will be on a hard drive but, PT is on my computer and if they will communicate together in any session I open up (regardless if it's saved on my desktop or to my hard drive). - Thank you!!! Spencer B |
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Ah, I see. I heard that's you want as much on the hard drive as you can so your computer won't get overloaded.
Komplete 11 Ultimate is a beastly file of 363 GB for complete installation. I don't want my computer/Pro Tools to work smoothly and have not crashes/overloads from this download. |
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Ok, thank you for helping me out!
So from this screenshot let me know if this is correct before I download. Download location- should be desktop Application location- should be desktop Content location- should be hard drive |
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You're installing from the NI supplied drive right? Seems kind of weird if you're installing from the NI drive. The Application location is right. As far as 'Content Location' you don't want that on your system drive. It should go on whatever drive you have your samples on. That 'content' should mainly be, like I said earlier, the samples for Battery 4 and Kontakt. The Kontakt stuff includes not just what's in Kontakt itself (the Factory Library) but also stuff like the Pianos, the various Drummer pinraries (which play through Kontakt), etc. The reason, as I said, you don't want that on your system drive is responsiveness - a spinner drive can only access on spot on the drive at any time on a rather slow access rate. If the system drive is an ssd then that kind of goes away but I still wouldn't put my samples there. A secondary thing of putting samples on a separate drive is that when (not if but when) you have to either reformat your system drive, replace it or it befalls some other disaster you don't have to reload the gigabytes of sample data. Trust me on this - I not only have my samples on a separate drive but I also have a clone of that drive. So if I lose one drive I have the other to keep working. You don't have to go that far but it's food for thought. |
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Change the Content location to your external drive. I think there's an option not to delete the installation files after installation. DON'T delete them! You my need to revert back to them in future if a future update proves unstable. Ideally you should install Komplete's content on a separate drive to Pro Tools sessions.
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