mapinduzi
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Installed Sonar 8.5 Producer with recommended settings, wondering if missing content
Hi, I just installed Sonar 8.5 Producer with recommended settings minus Guitar Rig LE. I've calculated that after installing from all 4 DVD's Sonar & all content takes up approximately 20 GB of space on my drives. I read that for a full install I would need 50 GB ( Recommended: 50 GB [Full Installation] or higher) of space and had planned for that, but I'm nowhere close. Below is what has been installed and their associated weights: Total of 18.10328 GB
Beatscape - 4.2g
Dimension Pro - 8.81g
VST Plugins - 1.9g (including ...)
Session Drummer 3 - 783m
RXP - 273m
DropZone - 298m
SFZ - 18.5m
Perfect Space - 369m
bitmeter, boost11, channel tools, linear compressor, linear eq, percussion strip, rapture le, transientshaper, true piano, tube leveler, vintagechannel, vocal strip, z3ta+
Demo Projects - 1.98g
Cakewalk folder in My Documents - 823m
Cakewalk Projects (on root of C Drive) - 36.4m
Cakewalk Program Directory (Program Files on C Drive) - 383m
I suspect that I'm missing something. Where did the 50 GB estimation come from? Have I overlooked some important content? If so, what should I do? Thanks, Mapinduzi
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Bigdogs
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Re:Installed Sonar 8.5 Producer with recommended settings, wondering if missing content
2010/04/07 06:57:20
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My installation takes up around 18GB also, and I don't think I'm missing anything. Where did you read the 50GB figure?
Sonar Platinum 64 bit, Windows 10 64 bit, i5 4670K Haswell Processor, 4.2GHz, 8Gb RAM, Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, AMD Radeon R7 260X, 120GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, 1000GB 7200RPM Hard Disk
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mapinduzi
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Re:Installed Sonar 8.5 Producer with recommended settings, wondering if missing content
2010/04/07 13:57:57
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A few different places: Product Box and Specs section of Cakewalk's Sonar Producer page: http://www.cakewalk.com/P...Studio.aspx?Prod=SR8.5 Hard Disk Space
Minimum:
200 MB (Minimal Installation) or higher
Recommended:
50 GB (Full Installation) or higher
Blogcritics Review: http://blogcritics.org/sc...-85-producer-from/What do you need to run SONAR 8.5? • 200 MB for core program (50 GB for full program and content)
30 GB seems like a pretty sizable gap. I suspected/assumed that they had 50 GB's of content because competitors claims a similar amount (i.e. Logic = 38 GB), but perhaps I'm reading their 50 GB estimation incorrectly? I can't believe that I'm the first to install Sonar 8.5 and notice the huge gap between Advertised and Actual product footprint. I'm not too shaken up by it because I love the product and have plenty to keep me occupied, but I do think the stated specs are misleading (if there actually is 30 GB missing) or I want to know what I've done incorrectly during installation. Best, Mapinduzi
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papa2005
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Re:Installed Sonar 8.5 Producer with recommended settings, wondering if missing content
2010/04/07 14:46:47
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I don't think it has anything to do with marketing or competing with other products...CW probably recommends the 50GB "free space" so your HD doesn't become completely filled...Frankly, I've never taken the time to total up the content of all the different folders that are created when installing a new product...
If you installed all four DVD's (64-bit & 32-bit versions) without receiving any error messages then you shouldn't worry about it...
Regards, Papa CLICK HERE for a link to support for SONAR 8.5 CLICK HERE to view a list of video tutorials... CLICK HERE for a link to Getting Started with Session Drummer 3...
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brundlefly
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Re:Installed Sonar 8.5 Producer with recommended settings, wondering if missing content
2010/04/07 15:29:06
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I'm not up on all the DVD encoding standards, but I don't think you can get 50GB on 4 single-sided DVDs without data compression, and I don't recall any of the SONAR content being compressed. The standard single-sided, single-layer disks without compression would give you 4.7GB/disk --> 18.8GB.
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papa2005
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Re:Installed Sonar 8.5 Producer with recommended settings, wondering if missing content
2010/04/07 15:46:25
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brundlefly
I'm not up on all the DVD encoding standards, but I don't think you can get 50GB on 4 single-sided DVDs without data compression, and I don't recall any of the SONAR content being compressed. The standard single-sided, single-layer disks without compression would give you 4.7GB/disk --> 18.8GB.
Some (if not all) of the SONAR 8.5 DVD's are dual-layer...
Regards, Papa CLICK HERE for a link to support for SONAR 8.5 CLICK HERE to view a list of video tutorials... CLICK HERE for a link to Getting Started with Session Drummer 3...
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mapinduzi
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Re:Installed Sonar 8.5 Producer with recommended settings, wondering if missing content
2010/04/09 12:52:09
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Hi all,
thanks for your replies/support. I just wanted to say though I think the 50GB recommended requirements are slightly misleading (I always assume it means installation footprint, and that stating HD space for recording, etc. is unnecessary) I'm not sad in the least. I'm totally digging sonar producer; big old grin since this thing was installed. I wish I had made the switch from logic (5.5!) a long time ago. Sonar rocks!
thanks,
Mapinduzi
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