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How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSample
If you install with the default paths, there's no problem with an install, but you fill up your OS/C drive. If you use the 3 drive plan, there doesn't seem to be any clear alternative for custom installing sample libraries to another drive, like you would for Dimension Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, even SD3, and then other vendors like the IK Sample Tanks, BFD kits, etc. As I plow along trying to install things where I want the samples, I realize there isn't a list of paths, "do this for _____" and there ought to be! I've gotten half answers at IK and am sort of stumbling my way into "hey, it's working". Some of SampleTank2 stuff puts itself in an appropriately named folder and some don't! WTF! RE Dimension Pro 1.5; I have 15+ volumes of samples and though I want all of it on my F Library drive. I installed some Platinum Samples Kits like Andy Johns Kit 1, didn't go in the same Multisamples folder, as the Rock Legends Kits 1, 2 and 3. Some of the Z3ta went to C and some went to F. Rapture ??? It seems that a chart of the paths for each of these would be really useful! I certainly don't know what I am doing, but I'd really like to! I know that there is someone here who knows this well. It would be extremely very really useful (like "big in a huge way" as my wife says!) to see a page or thread or FAQ listing what the "correct path" for all of these VST options, that we use or could be using. LOL Michael
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
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OK, I re-read your post and see that you want a list of paths. You have it right; minimum 3 drives. C: OS and all "programs" (except Rapture). dlls go C:Program Files\Cakewalk\Vstplugins\vsti sub folder I assign sub-folders for each VST and VSTi; these are the dlls. your circus, your monkey. Audio Drive; mine is "A" since Win 7 will "let" you name an HDD "A" I have a sub folder called CWP. That way I can backup all projects to an external drive with one move of the mouse. Sample Drive, "S" works for samples, or V for VSTi, or L for Library; call it what you like. I made a folder called "VSTi" I have sub folders for "Cakewalk" "IK" "EZD" etc. The only one I had "issues" with is Rapture. It does not let you specify where samples will go (if my notes are right). Consequently I installed Rapture (the program and samples) to the sample drive. DimPro, Zeta, Session Drummer, IIRC, all let me specify where the samples should go. I had no issues with SampleTank3 putting all the "content" on the sample drive. You've got to pay close attention, as you're finding out. Most installers will let you choose, but you've got to be "on your toes". SampleTank2 works in X3? All the "old" IK synths quit on me when I installed X2. Have fun Tom
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/11 23:04:30
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With Cakewalk synths you can only move the Multisamples folder IF you're prepared to do a registry edit. Despite many requests over the years to change how the Cakewalk synths install their samples the only way still is to do a registry edit.
All other VSTis I have allow me to choose an installation path for the samples either during installation or after.
The Cake synths have 2 essential components ie. The Multisamples and the Programs. Multisamples is what takes up space And as I said before can be moved with a registry edit but Programs can't. At least I don't know anyone who's found a way. The thing is that the Programs don't take up a lot of space. In fact the Multisamples for z3ta and Rapture don't take up so much space so I only moved Dim Pro Multisample to my sample drive.
I'm afraid I can't help you with SD3 as I don't use it.
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/12 02:10:22
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Use NTFS links/junctions rather than a registry hack to move the programs (and samples).
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/12 02:29:36
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mudgel ...The Cake synths have 2 essential components ie. The Multisamples and the Programs. Multisamples is what takes up space And as I said before can be moved with a registry edit but Programs can't...
I would still prefer that programs, as well as multisamples, are stored in a place of my choosing rather than buried in some hidden folder. It's not just about the amount of disk space they take up. Whenever I need to reinstall or migrate to a new setup, I want to retain (or copy over) all the existing programs and multisamples, keeping their folder structures intact. With all the expansion packs plus things that I have added or modified over the years, it would be a nightmare to have to reconstruct it all again from scratch.
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/12 02:35:05
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Like I said there's been many requests over the years for more flexible installers for the Cakewalk synths but no positive action as yet.
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/12 10:13:01
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Thanks to all of you! Well, it will take me a bit to digest all these suggestions. @ Tom ST2 will get imported to ST3 as Legacy instruments. So, no and yes, indirectly. I do some of your methods and will be re-reading your post to rethink things! Thanks @KPerry I got a suggestion to do things that way and intend to learn that, but I've never done anything like that before and will have to read up/seek counseling LOL @Kev999 and mudgel As easy as Sample Tank 3 was, it does seem like the CW stuff is unnecessarily awkward or difficult and bothersome! Scott Garrigus mentioned that libraries that are "streaming", are the ones that really need to be on my F drive and I forgot all about that. I noticed that the Z3ta+2 and Rapture were "small". So, I suppose having my DimPro, IK and the BFD2 on F is a start, and I'll get smarter as I go through this and redo it -that makes me shudder!_ when I get educated. Thanks to you all. Michael
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/12 10:24:27
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Until there's a more transparent way to do things, do a search on mklink. It basically creates an "alias" on your C: drive that can link to where the library actually exists. I have all my Dim Pro and SD3 samples on my master drive for samples. BTW the registry hack really isn't all that difficult, it just involves changing the drive letter in a line. I know people are terrified of the registry, but as long as you're careful and don't have a cat walk across your keyboard while you're editing, many registry hacks are not complicated.
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/12 10:26:38
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In this thread of mine http://forum.cakewalk.com/New-i7-How-to-get-X3ePE-Melodyne-Ed2-AD2-and-all-to-it-m3138215.aspx scook responded with this method of using the cmd/exe. and links rather than registry deletes. He also has a way to move the Rapture multisamples. I am tempted to uninstall it all and start over slower! Yet I don't think I quite get it, well enough. Check out his posts #8 #10 #12 . They are intimidating, but I am thinking I have to learn how to do it and his responses are very good/clear/thorough, just beyond me at the moment. I'm wanting to install stuff on the new PC and some of it is going well, but.......... I don't really have a handle on it, so thanks to everyone. I hope to absorb it all! Michael
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2015/01/12 10:37:54
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Thank you, Craig. I suppose then I can install everything I own and as I learn these more serious methods, I can set things "right". I like that you've made it seem approachable! and I will hang on to my cat! Our other one is afraid of the guitars, so she doesn't come in the studio, but Little Guy likes to sleep on my lap while I'm online. I am feeling better about this all. ......."not quite dead, yet, actually. I'm feeling better"(Monty Python) Michael
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
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☄ Helpfulby Del 2015/01/12 13:33:19
Unfortunately, there is no standard way of directing any application to its data in the Windows world, so each vendor will implement his own scheme. Some, like Dimension Pro, make it unnecessarily difficult. Others, such as SampleTank 2/3 and Kontakt, make it easy but non-obvious. Since you don't move libraries often, every time you do it's necessary to re-figure out how you did it last time. My solution is to take notes. I maintain a file that information like this goes into, along with serial numbers and installation tricks. That way, I have one place to look that stuff up when I have to re-install. I've carried the same file forward from computer to computer since the 80's, and have a hardcopy printout of it in the shoebox where I keep my backup disks. Another nifty trick was alluded to by KPerry and Anderton above, and that's the use of file system links. Think of them as shortcuts like you'd place on your desktop, in that they exist in one place but redirect Windows somewhere else. This is how I tricked Dimension Pro into thinking its libraries were where it wanted to install them rather than where I actually put them. No registry edit required, and Dim Pro will happily use the new location even if I re-install it from scratch. Dim Pro expects to find its data in c:\program files\cakewalk\dimension pro. You can change a registry key to point it elsewhere, but if you do you'll still have an issue if you subsequently re-install it. A better way is to fool Dim Pro into thinking it's using the default path by telling Windows that it's an alias for another location. Dim Pro thinks it's installing libraries on C: when in fact every reference is quietly being redirected to E: or whatever. First, move your Dim Pro directory tree to the desired location and delete (or rename, if you're paranoid) the original folder. Then open a DOS window and run the mlink command to create a fake directory. In the following example, the "real" library folder is E:\Libraries\Dimension Pro: c: cd \program files\cakewalk mklink /D "Dimension Pro" "E:\Libraries\Dimension Pro" After doing that, you will see that there is still a folder under Cakewalk named Dimension Pro, except that Windows Explorer displays a different icon for it that indicates it's a link. From this point on, you can reference the fake folder just as if it was a real file system location. Open it in Explorer and you'll see all your files listed as if they were really there. You can do anything in the fake folder that you could do in the real one. And SONAR and Dim Pro won't be the wiser.
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/12 11:41:51
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Thanks Dave. It is getting clearer and therefore attemptable. I googled the how to open a DOS window, since I've never done that before and will read till I feel confident. I found this video that at 1:42 minutes offers a number of Win8 ways to open a cmd window, which must be a DOS window, YES? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6htgwhJFvac for anyone reading that hopes to learn this all, too. You are all great guides/teachers. I know I am on the verge of new knowledge and options. This is very cool, even if I keep thinking "I'm gonna do what?!?!" Michael
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/12 11:56:19
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pentimentosound I found this video that at 1:42 minutes offers a number of Win8 ways to open a cmd window, which must be a DOS window, YES? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6htgwhJFvac for anyone reading that hopes to learn this all, too.
That's the ticket. Just remember that you really can't blow anything up. If you type something incorrect, Windows will just ignore it and if you type something correct, as Bit has presented above (BTW great stuff, Bit), then it will work. The Command Line Interface is a very basic tool. It seems foreign now that we have all this graphical user interface stuff, but this is how computers started...you're just basically writing a script telling it what to do at a very basic level using terms the computer can understand. Ever since OS X, even the Mac has a Command Line Interface oo you can talk to it that way.
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2015/01/12 12:19:31
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Back in the 12 Tone System days, I had a roommate who had a PC and did that and got me into the whole Cakewalk Sonar DAW on PC world. I got farily good at using the tools in Sonar(starting with ProAudio9), in terms of editing and producing, but still don't have a confident sense of "computers". I learned enough to put 2 PC's together and do online stuff, but it's these kind of basic tools/commands that I lack and wish to rectify ASAP. LOL Thanks again. I am willing to delve into to this all much more deeply than ever before, because I know I can find out here and at DigiFreq. Michael
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/12 14:37:03
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Sorry, I should have said how to open a DOS window (aka "DOS prompt", "Command prompt", "cmd"). Being the dinosaur that I am, I have a DOS window open all the time.
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/12 14:44:21
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Just in case, eh?!?! LOL Thanks Dave. That YouTube on how to do it, showed me 6-8 ways and I am sure to get one of them! HA! Speaking of pterodactyls................ my 66th is 7 weeks from tomorrow. I am happy to be a high flying bird, even if I've been around a while. One of my earliest gigs was the night before the Beatles did their first Ed Sullivan and I am still as excited about it all, as ever! Michael
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/12 18:52:43
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If you are command line ****ed like me there are freeware apps to create a mklink.
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/12 19:53:25
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That's good to know, kitekrazy1 ! Thanks for the link and the laugh! Anyone know what error " dwRet = 2 " means? I get when I try to load any of the Rock Legends Kits into Dimension Pro. Andy Johns Kit 1 installed nicely, but I get this error now. Platinum Samples may answer but I hope someone here might be able to help me with this. Michael
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/12 21:29:27
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bitflipper Since you don't move libraries often, every time you do it's necessary to re-figure out how you did it last time.
So true. I've been wanting to jump into this thread as most of my shared componentes, VSTs, VSTis and samples (DimPro, DSFs, SD3 etc) are on another drive (well, partition of my SSD actually) and I'd like to help, but I can't remember all the steps I did to make it work  . It wasn't hard though, you just have to set things up before and during installation. Installing new stuff is then straightforward, for those packages that let you specify a destination. I'm sure I'll eventually mlink all of Cakewalk somewhere else as I want my OS drive/partition for my OS.
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
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☄ Helpfulby pentimentosound 2015/01/13 08:51:53
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2015/01/13 08:53:13
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Thanks for that link, KPerry. I'll read that next. The mklink seems to be a good thing for me to learn. Paul I like the idea that I am using the whole simple volume for these 3 drives and suppose I'll think 2Tb is small, soon! LOL Michael
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2015/01/13 09:42:00
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Whoa Michael !!! "I like the idea that I am using the whole simple volume for these 3 drives" Please tell me you have NOT partitioned 1 hdd into 3 separate drives? ! That most definitely is NOT a 3 drive system. I'm sure the "experts" will chime in here, but that is not the "best" way to handle it. It will "work", but that's not the same as 3 separate hard drives. Tom
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2015/01/13 09:53:35
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No, Tom. I went to a 3 drive setup in 2004 and even my laptop has 2 500gb 7200rpm's + an external 1Tb. I have a WD 1Tb C, and 2 Seagate 2Tb drives as my CW Projects and Library drives. No partitions. No I meant that I am NOT partitioning these 3 drives. Michael ps I understand the 3 drive concept, though I wonder how/if SSD's are another story...... I don't have any SSD's, yet.
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Lets now return to our "regular" program still in progress. I'm sure that the DimPro installer will "prompt" you for the "Multisamples" location. What it does not do is let you chose where the .prog files will go. (these are in c:\ProgramData\Cakewalk\Dimension Pro\Programs folder) Interestingly enough the Session Drummer3 installer puts the "Programs" folder in "Content" on the Sample drive (if that's what you've instructed it to do; way to go Cakewalk!). This is one of the "niggles" that I find with Sonar. Preferences>Folder Locations is a start... BUT When presets, .prog files, keyboard shortcuts, instrument definitions, etc. are all on the C drive; If (when) you have a melt down, you have been hosed! That's not to say your data drive or where ever you are keeping things can't fail. But one simple/central backup point would be nice (essential really I think). users\me\roaming\blah blah, etc., etc., etc.; is just a bit (more than a bit for me) tedious. Does anyone really back up; users\me\appdata\roaming\Cakewalk\Sonar X3 Producer; REALLY ?? Question for Dave; are you keeping your DimPro .prog files in with the Multisamples? T
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/13 10:08:07
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Whew! Michael, glad we sorted that! I think that SSD's are great for anything that is "write once"; Sample Librarys obviously. Audio drive, I don't think we are there yet, although I'm sure some are using them; to tempting not too! Even the OS, unless you move the page file to a conventional hdd, I just think there could/can be "issues". And I'm pretty sure that 32gb of RAM does NOT prevent Windows from pitching a file now and then to the page file. That stuff is "hard coded" somewhere, and she goes "looking for Mama" anytime she gets "confused?". But, I'm no expert! T
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/13 10:42:31
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DeeringAmps Question for Dave; are you keeping your DimPro .prog files in with the Multisamples?
No. Program files are less than 20 MB, versus 3.6 GB for the samples. Total agreement about the wouldn't it be nice if everything was in one place sentiment. But that's not the Windows Way, and hasn't been since the invention of dynamic link libraries. I'm coming around to the idea that the best backup strategy is full-system snapshots to an external drive, augmented by DVD/CD backups for individual products.
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/13 11:59:38
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I have been doing Acronis True Image backups to my external drive and intend to "migrate" that drive to this studio desktop. I don't even know if there is a Windows 8.1 backup. Is there? Hmmm. Dave if/when you back up your CW projects, do you bundle them or not? Tom I did think I might explore an SSD for the library drive, "down the road" a bit, as I have other studio items that I want sooner (or NOW!) Michael
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/13 12:39:13
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Michael, Go at least 1tb (ssd for the samples), I went with 500gb and that was not enough... Dave, "everything in one place sentiment. But that's not the Windows Way"Preferences>File Locations; Cake (hopefully) can direct Sonar anywhere they want; can't they? Whoops, got a little off topic, sorry  T
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/13 12:48:17
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Thanks Tom, that is what I was thinking and why I'm waiting. I have a short list of things I'd rather have first. Michael
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Re: How about a list of paths for custom installs of Dim Pro, Z3ta+2, Rapture, SD3, PlatSa
2015/01/13 18:55:50
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See http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/2673527 for the registry details for all bundled CW synths. As before, I suggest spending a few minutes and learn how mklink works. Some installers do not honor the registry hacks. All installers work with directory junctions.
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