I had to start moving stuff around back when I had a very small C: drive on an XP machine. With larger drives the situation is different but I am use to having the app on the system drive and the samples on a non-system drive.

Thanks for the info Mesh and Scook.

I'll see how hard it is to move these things. Honestly, I don't use SI and TTS-1 all that much, and when if do, I can always freeze them. I just wanted to have this fresh install put everything exactly where I wanted it.

I don't remember the specifics, but I do remember a significant performance increase when I started putting samples on a drive different than my boot drive.

I'm going to start the installation now ... thanks everyone for your input.

Bub.

just an FYI

I have a C:\ SSD drive for the OS

my samples/libraries are on a 1.5 Tb drive

my recorded audio on a 1 Gig drive

a seperate removable drive for my Acronis backups

Well, I got sidetracked, and never started the install.

Now I'm afraid to tackle it so late at night because my luck, I'll get it installed, something won't go right, I'll get obsessive over fixing it, then I'll be up until 3am.

*sIgH*

It's not easy being a Sonar power hobbyist.

musicman100


just an FYI

I have a C:\ SSD drive for the OS

my samples/libraries are on a 1.5 Tb drive

my recorded audio on a 1 Gig drive

a seperate removable drive for my Acronis backups

MM, you have a 1 GB drive? for recorded audio?

Mesh

musicman100

I have a C:\ SSD drive for the OS

my samples/libraries are on a 1.5 Tb drive

my recorded audio on a 1 Gig drive

a seperate removable drive for my Acronis backups

MM, you have a 1 GB drive? for recorded audio?

If you're using an SSD ... why have multiple drives? I thought having multiple drives in an SSD based system actually slowed you down?

Bub

Mesh

musicman100

I have a C:\ SSD drive for the OS

my samples/libraries are on a 1.5 Tb drive

my recorded audio on a 1 Gig drive

a seperate removable drive for my Acronis backups

MM, you have a 1 GB drive? for recorded audio?

If you're using an SSD ... why have multiple drives? I thought having multiple drives in an SSD based system actually slowed you down?

From my little understanding of SSD's, they're much, much,much  faster at data access than the regular drives (magnetic). So, having an SSD for your OS makes boot up and running programs almost instantaneous (some people have claimed booting up their DAW takes only 6-9 secs...(IIRC).
So, it's just a super-fast drive than the conventional HD's. 
 

FWIW

You have the correct idea in your opening Post.
Put your programs and VST's in the C drive

Everything else that can be installed do so on the 2nd drive.

If sonar places the synths on the c drive let it be. they do not take that much space, if there is an update then sonar knows where to look to fix it and at least you know that it will work right out of the gate......

It's the library's and samples, loops, downloads etc that will eat up your space and also slow your programs down. so by seperating them you give the programs a chance to operate more effeciently and thus less issues....

Also just a thought ...
on the VST's what I do is create One master folder and then sub folder it for different bit programs (32 bit, 64 bit Cakewalk and jbridge) then all my VST's dll files are in ONE PLACE so all I need to do then is point my plug in manager to that one master folder and everything gets scanned....no missies...

Here is what it looks like

C\
Program folder \
ALL VST"S \
(now comes the the subfolders)
32 bit Vst's (I place all 32 bit VST's in this folder and yes you can subfolder this for individual Plugs like IK MultiMedia, Kerovee etc...)
64 bit Vst's (I place all 64 bit VST's in this folder and yes you can subfolder this for individual plug ins as well)
Cakewalk VST's (I put all my Cake walk VST's in this folder)
Jbridge (anything I want jbridge to see I use this folder)

Now all i do is point my plug in manager to the "All VST" folder on the
c drive and everything get's scanned and no one get's missed.......
 
If I have any issues I know exactly where to look for things.........clean

Hope this makes sense
Clifford

Hey Bub - did you get round to the reinstall yet?    I had a few X2 crashes the last couple of days, and I can't help feeling the Sonar 6->8>X2 bloatware is all starting to get in the way.  I also have plenty of legacy VSTs from the days when I was grabbing everything I could off KVR.  I probably have no more than about 10 regular VSTi and a similar number of FX.  So I'm considering a wholesale clearout and re-install.  Which means all the inevitable issues with installing software for the soundcard and Presonus Faderport...

btw, no sign of Rapture (other than LE) on my X2 install, but I do have 4 versions of DimPro!

Truckermusic

FWIW

You have the correct idea in your opening Post.
Put your programs and VST's in the C drive

Everything else that can be installed do so on the 2nd drive.

If sonar places the synths on the c drive let it be. they do not take that much space, if there is an update then sonar knows where to look to fix it and at least you know that it will work right out of the gate......

It's the library's and samples, loops, downloads etc that will eat up your space and also slow your programs down. so by seperating them you give the programs a chance to operate more effeciently and thus less issues....

Also just a thought ...
on the VST's what I do is create One master folder and then sub folder it for different bit programs (32 bit, 64 bit Cakewalk and jbridge) then all my VST's dll files are in ONE PLACE so all I need to do then is point my plug in manager to that one master folder and everything gets scanned....no missies...

Here is what it looks like

C\
Program folder \
ALL VST"S \
(now comes the the subfolders)
32 bit Vst's (I place all 32 bit VST's in this folder and yes you can subfolder this for individual Plugs like IK MultiMedia, Kerovee etc...)
64 bit Vst's (I place all 64 bit VST's in this folder and yes you can subfolder this for individual plug ins as well)
Cakewalk VST's (I put all my Cake walk VST's in this folder)
Jbridge (anything I want jbridge to see I use this folder)

Now all i do is point my plug in manager to the "All VST" folder on the
c drive and everything get's scanned and no one get's missed.......
 
If I have any issues I know exactly where to look for things.........clean

Hope this makes sense
Clifford

Hi Clifford ...

Thanks for the input!

I tried to keep everything that I could 64 bit. There's a couple of things such as Cakewalk Sound Center that's 32bit that I didn't want to part with, but I'd have to say I'm 98% 64bit now. When I wiped my system this time, I only put back X2 64bit ... I finally put 8.5 and X1 to rest. I really like X2 and it seems to be running very well on my system.