Making the most of my SSD

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jkoseattle
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2014/12/31 19:49:25 (permalink)

Making the most of my SSD

I bought myself a solid state drive for Xmas. My goal is to make working with Sonar faster. The most time-consuming part of it is loading instruments from EastWest. If I have a full orchestra, just loading the Sonar project can take 10-15 minutes. I've installed the SSD and copied the EW sample library onto it, plus all my Sonar projects. Sonar itself is still located on my regular C drive. Right now only the EW samples and the Sonar projects are on the SSD.
 
I'm surprised that nothing seems to have changed yet, but I don't really know what I'm doing. Loading the EW instruments shows no improvement at all. And I'm getting as many dropouts as before. What else do I need to do to take advantage of the SSD, and what things are not ever going to ber helped by it?

Sonar Version: Platinum  
Audio Interface: M-Audio Delta
Computer: Dell i5 3.1 GHz, 12Gb RAM, Windows 10 64-bit
Soft Synths: EastWest PLAY Symphonic Orchestra
MIDI Controllers: M-Audio 2x2 MidiSport Anniv Edition
Settings: 16-Bit, Sample Rate 44.1k, ASIO Buffer Size 128-1024, Record/Playback I/O Buffers play:256k, rec: 64k, Total Round Trip Latency 48 ms  
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    lawajava
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    Re: Making the most of my SSD 2014/12/31 20:58:42 (permalink)
    Are you really in Seattle?  If so, I can chat with you in person.  I have SSDs running and it's lickety split.

    Two internal 2TB SSDs laptop stuffed with Larry's deals and awesome tools. Studio One is the cat's meow as a DAW now that I've migrated off of Sonar. Using BandLab Cakewalk just to grab old files when migrating songs.
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    jkoseattle
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    Re: Making the most of my SSD 2014/12/31 21:14:25 (permalink)
    Yes, Go Hawks!
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    Sonar Version: Platinum  
    Audio Interface: M-Audio Delta
    Computer: Dell i5 3.1 GHz, 12Gb RAM, Windows 10 64-bit
    Soft Synths: EastWest PLAY Symphonic Orchestra
    MIDI Controllers: M-Audio 2x2 MidiSport Anniv Edition
    Settings: 16-Bit, Sample Rate 44.1k, ASIO Buffer Size 128-1024, Record/Playback I/O Buffers play:256k, rec: 64k, Total Round Trip Latency 48 ms  
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    dappa1
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    Re: Making the most of my SSD 2015/01/01 12:07:59 (permalink)
    I thought it would be best to transfer the software directly from the disc or from the download site straight to the SSD.

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