Should Cakewalk Projects folder be on my audio drive?

That's what I have done since Sonar 5. My "Cakewalk Projects" folder is on my Audio drive. I have a separate drive just for this, and another just for samples (Kontakt, etc).

Regards,
Dan

I had this exact same problem without realizing it until a couple months ago. When I'd set up my project I'd leave the project file options to default (C drive). Then I have to manually create a folder on my E drive for the audio (not sure if this can be set to happen automatically with the project name). 

Well a couple months ago I realized my C drive was getting used up very quickly. I poked around the folders and sure enough a bunch of audio had been writing to my C drive. WTH? It seems every time I was doing a Save As the audio folder was defaulting the Audio location back to the C drive. I'm not sure if it was making another copy of everything or what but my system is a total mess now and I'm gonna have to go through and clean it all up. I'm 700 pages into the manual and this topic was only briefly touched upon. The few times it was mentioned very little was said on multi drive set ups or this default behavior.

Now when I'm using Save as I make sure the audio path is correct but since I've noticed it it doesn't seem to be happening. It's like observing something at the quantum level... look at it and it behaves differently. lol

Thanks Scott. So your example setup suggests that cwp files and audio are fine on the same drive?

My current setup is
C: OS, program files, VSTs and cakewalk projects
D: Sample Instruments and VSTi's
E: Audio

So to move my cwp's, etc to the audio drive still has me with the optimum setup?

zoffmeister

Thanks Scott. So your example setup suggests that cwp files and audio are fine on the same drive?

My current setup is
C: OS, program files, VSTs and cakewalk projects
D: Sample Instruments and VSTi's
E: Audio

So to move my cwp's, etc to the audio drive still has me with the optimum setup?

Hi Dean... yes to both questions. When you use SONAR's per-project folder option, you save the project file in its own folder and that folder also contains an audio subfolder, which holds all the audio for that project. So having both the project and audio files on the same drive keeps things organized and doesn't hurt performance in any way.


Scott

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Might be a good idea to turn off autosaves during tracking ?

Karl : "Despite popular belief Autosave won't save while the transport is running."

Thanks, that's good to know.

Thanks, Scott. I do seem to recall that being mentioned in X1 Power but it was counter to what I THOUGHT I had read elsewhere. I think I was confusing the actual program for the project files. So essentially I was just being a pigheaded doofus. lol

I've got a LOT of folder cleaning to do now. :-/