|
Avid Pro Audio CommunityHow to Join & Post • Community Terms of Use • Help Us Help YouKnowledge Base Search • Community Search • Learn & Support |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
How to install samples on external drive
Hi all, new guy here just trying to optimize my setup before I get deep-in and realize I should have been more organized from the beginning.
From what I gather, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but I should be running Pro Tools from my main drive and running my samples from an external SSD. Should I also be running everything (samples and plugins) from the external drive? Should I be recording my sessions to that same external drive? I don't think I have enough ports to run two external drives (one for session data and one for samples/plugins). Please advise. Also, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install the samples and plugins to my external drive, and I cannot find any tutorial about this anywhere. With some dmgs it won't allow me to chose the installation site and defaults to the main drive as the only option. I also don't know what I should be downloading and attemping to install on the external. I'm using the new subscription Pro Tools 2020.9, and in the Avid "Products" (/downloads) section of my account there are a ton of sections (Drivers, ProTools Plugins, UVI Plugins, Complete Plugin Bundle) with collectively 20 or so items, but I don't know what-all I even need. The "complete bundle", judging from file size, doesn't have everything from above links so it's not complete per se, and this to won't allow me to install on the external SSD... Just confusing and hard to troubleshoot. Can someone link me to an Avid forum or video of how to get where I need to be? Thanks all! |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Re: How to install samples on external drive
Why are you doing this? What exact problem are you trying to solve?
You will likely make more progress with Pro Tools as a beginner if you clearly describe the problems and ask for suggestions and not leap to assume you know the solution and asking for help doing that. Let’s start with exactly what model Mac you have. Date code name or better the EMC number. What problem are you seeing? E.g. slow startup of VIs that cache samples, run time errors or glitches with streaming samples? Something else? What exact errors/error numbers/text? And with what exact VI plugins... you should be able to work out if those plugins are caching samples or streaming them from the drive. Or if you can configure them to do either, and what other tuning options the plugins provide. Some third party VI vendors provide good optimization/tuning documentation. If it had an internal NVNe/PCIe SSD and samples will fit on that there is likely no reason to put those on an external SSD. And if that external SSD is only a SATA drive that may reduce plugin performance. And with a NVMe/PCIe SSD you should just record sessions to the same drive. And hopefully with enough RAM in your Mac you should be able to set disk cache to fully cache the sessions you are working with. But again what exact Mac do you have... NVMe/PCIe drive performance increased rapidly after being first introduced as Apple went to 4xPCie 3 SSDs. If you actually ever need to install samples for a VI you just run the installer and most installers will let you place the samples where you want. Any that are not obvious you read the documentation for the plugin. Last edited by Darryl Ramm; 10-30-2020 at 02:16 PM. |
#3
|
||||
|
||||
Re: How to install samples on external drive
It might also help to know the exact plugins you are wanting to install on the external drive as not all allow it. Example: Toontrack Superior Drummer can have samples installed where you like, but EZdrummer will only allow them on the C:drive
__________________
HP Z4 workstation, Mbox Studio https://www.facebook.com/search/top/...0sound%20works The better I drink, the more I mix BTW, my name is Dave, but most people call me.........................Dave |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Re: How to install samples on external drive
Quote:
But EZ Drummer Version 2 and above let you move samples to other locations easily. Toontracks is near the top of my list for vendors actually making stuff easy to install, update and manage. Avid OTOH does not even make it to the list. |
#5
|
||||
|
||||
Re: How to install samples on external drive
Quote:
System, programs, and all essential files on the fastest drive. Sessions and sample libraries on the not so fast drives if you have to. Quote:
Quote:
• First AIR Effects bundle • First AIR Instuments bundle and • XPand 2 And of course, you install plugins in the system folder on the OS boot drive.
__________________
Mac mini M2 16GB RAM macOS 13.4.1. PT Studio 2023.6. Topping E30 II DAC, Dynaudio BM6, 2 x Artist Mix, SSL UC1, Control on iPad. |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Re: How to install samples on external drive
Hey, thanks everyone! I think I got it figured out :)
|
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Creative collection Samples on external Drive? | JrummerJ | Pro Tools M-Powered (Mac) | 4 | 06-29-2016 09:59 AM |
Loading/finding samples saved on an external drive | DBK | Getting Started | 1 | 01-08-2015 04:35 AM |
Reason Rewire in Protools, Samples in External Drive? | jeananto | 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Mac) | 2 | 04-04-2010 10:11 AM |
External or Internal Drive for Structure Samples | modernart | Virtual Instruments | 8 | 04-22-2008 08:15 PM |
external usb2.0 drive or put samples on 2nd drive? | keithl | 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Win) | 1 | 02-07-2008 10:22 AM |