Will Command Center support preferred installation destinations?

In other words, if I use Command Center, can I install everything where I want to? (For example, software in c:/music software, other resources on d: and audio data/samples on e: drives)

HUGE friggin deal to me...I like the OP run a smaller SSD for OS and proggys, I spent an hour last night moving "Cakewalk content" to my multi-terabyte storage drive which is where I want to keep stuff...command center is unwieldy, uncooperative and a complete waste of time in a real studio.

n/m.

It's not simply "vst's" its the whole friggin enchilada I want on another hard drive...

I don't know if this is what you want but the Command Center will let you control where you can install your plugins. However it wont let you do a custom install of the program or where it is to be installed. 
 
I hope that CW will expand the options available to us with the command center. 
 
I fully understand the need. 

m.letcher@q.com
I just went thru this un-necessary exercise and have a simple solution. Go to the dir with your installation files, look for the Sonar installer, and run it manually. It's pretty similar to earlier installers and offers a 'Custom' install option. It doesn't have all the instrument option stuff, but that's a different issue. Anyway, you can then set the drv of choice for the program install and basic VST stuff. There is even an option to select between 32 vs 64b installs. I use both because I have a bunch of favorite 32b VSTs and bridging is a kludge. You probably need to set the installer to 'Run as Admin' first. I suspect that's needed for C3 as well.
I haven't tried the instrument installers yet and would love to get SI-Instruments off my C drv as well. CW really botched the C3 for SSD folks, imho. So, ditch the C3 and do it manually like we've always had to do it. 
 

Does this mean that the Command Center will download the installation files in the designated download area (as determined by the "cog"/settings), and NOT simply install automatically?
... AND should you THEN want to install OUTSIDE of the CCC, there is a traditional setup.exe file in the download located in the designated download folder?
 
The "issue" of course is the "automatic launch" of the Command Center installer. If the download occurs and it doesn't automatically launch into installation, then this is the simplest of fixes: Manually install from the download folder.

Does anyone know if this is the protocol ... and please pardon if this sounds simplistic:

CCC downloads in to download folder (chosen in settings) ---> Pause (awaiting instruction to install)??

If so, then just exit the CCC at that point, navigate to the download folder chosen, and run manually. This would be an easy, simple workaround ... IF there is a pause. Since I would let it do anything until I was more certain, I've not yet installed anything but the Addictive Drum Plug ... which I WAS able to direct to a chosen folder/drive.

In the settings you can specify a location for the download files. Mark have you look in the settings yet of CCC?
 
Cheers..

Damnit there are two Marks, I meant Mark Letcher!! Sorry..!
 
Mark Pixley just move it yourself and change folder locations in preferences  I suggest. Registry hack may need to happen if/when is necessary.
 
Not sure exactly is in your Cakewalk Content, mine has been customized for some time...
 
I guess two Marks are better than two Alex's...

See what works for you. I have to have core parking disabled myself..

Hi CakeAlex, I'm not trying to be too harsh. Yes I did check the settings options, though I kind of expected more of a plug and play experience. So, after buying the SPro update and getting the C3, I just started the DL. Then as it got started I began wondering about where stuff was going. I'm the type that even wants to know where the temp extraction stuff gets put. No temp data is allowed on the SSD, there are HDDs for that stuff. So, I stopped the DL and gave the C3 another look where I noticed the cog. It's not exactly in a 'toolbar' and might have been just another decoration (no text suggested a settings function), but there isn't some sort of menu with a 'Settings' or 'Defaults' option or even an initialization screen so maybe that would be the settings tucked away innocuously. Most CW stuff does have an init screen that can then be turned off (like for hints,etc).
 
Sure enough, the cog was for settings, yeh. So, I perused the options. OK, I can set my 32/64b VST locations. I've got other DAWs with these so far so good. And VST3's. I don't have any but know they're coming so since I've got locations setup, and I pointed at those. And then the 3rd section was for the DL location which is what I was looking for. No extraction location option, but I'll live with that. I'm not too sure what the max connections is for. Not having seen it in action I wasn't going to mess with it. I suspect it controls the number of files that can be simultaneously DL (maybe to take better advantage of mirrors and servers?). But, don't know, don't mess with it. Language, well I'd gotten this far so English must be good enough for me.
 
And that's where it got interesting. I looked around for a scroll bar, none in sight. Maybe another page option, no again. So, where was I going to be able to select some options for the program installation. Ahhh, I got it. There will be a option setup screen following the DLs. Must be it. So, I restart the DL. After 12 hrs or so, and 3 or 4 DL fails and re-starts, the DLs completed. I'd seen a thread that the DLs would be deleted upon installation which would be very bad, but not beyond imagination. This is why I was watching for completion of the DLs so closely. That rumor is untrue. Only interrupted DLs appear to be deleted and re-started. I was anxiously awaiting this moment. As an aside it would be really nice to show the total GBs needed prior to starting the DL to be sure the disk has enough space and show the actual MBs DL vs total along with the percentage complete. My ISP has a nasty habit of cutting my already limited DL speed in half and this lets me monitor them.
 
Anyway, it completed and then just jumped off and started installing stuff. I had no idea where until I got a chance to look at the shortcut properties and figure out it all went to the C: drive to my dismay. As it approached completion, I actually copied the DL dir to another partition just prior to completion so that if disaster struck as it often does, I could at least resume from an almost complete DL status. naturally, once things got installed and the installers were still intact, I re-copied those to an external destination for safekeeping.
 
So, to answer your question. Yes, I did discover and look at and setup the cog config settings. I'm looking at the cog screen right now and still don't see any Sonar installation options, a more page, or a scroll bar where they might be located. Perhaps I'm still missing something. It wouldn't be the first time. Maybe there is some update that escaped me? Please surprise me.
 
I'm also now of the opinion that C3 should be set to 'Run as Admin' prior to running it as well, but that's speculation on my part as the doc's seem to be silent on the matter.
 
 
 

+1.
 
I just don't get the lack of options to install the data where we want. The user. The owner of the HDD's/SSD's. It is truly weird and a not so good evolution of installments. The only way to install the whole package the proper way, is to do it by hand.

I wish that CCC had the intelligence of the NI Service Centre. Even if you manually install a program outside of the service centre it knows about it, whereas CCC is dumb. It only knows about what went through it as far as downloads and installation directories.

It's nice and smooth for a simple one or everything install to defaults but if you're outside of those parameters you're out of luck.

If you want to install 4 packages say, you can't select those 4 and let it go and do its thing, as every individual thing as selected is downloaded and installed then you have to select the next thing.

It needs a good bit of refinement before it is a true Command Centre.

Throughout this thread, I see references to a "cog." What is a "cog?"