a) Is it actually possible to install Cubase 11 on a different drive?
b) What is the technical reason for the restriction if not (and I have not been able to see this answered here)?
c) As to content, that all goes to C: drive as well, and while the Library Manager apparently allows you to move location, do you have to do this for every individual item manually one at a time?
d) Dorico happily installs on a drive of your choice. Why is Cubase from the same company different?
Well now, never one to give up, I redownloaded the standalone installer mentioned above, and after removing the C: drive installation, today it happily prompted for a location, and installed nicely on my K: drive.
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However: It is worth noting that of course using Library Manager you can move the content to any drive or location that you wish. For example, I have 106Gb of Cubase and Nuendo Content on my F: Drive.
If we understood the reasoning, we may help you find a solution.
It could very well be possible, that Steinberg decided to not let users choose anymore, as installing the program on another drive could cause certain issues.
I was considering how to reinstall all my VST plugins from my old laptop. I thought of backing up my old device and transferring everything to the new one, or simply moving the "VST programs" file from one to the other, or starting from scratch and installing from original website. Which leads me to the general question, is it worth installing VST plugins to an external hard drive? Would I be able to use them without any latency or delay issues? Also, if say someone else had the same DAW as I did, if I connected my external drive with the VSTs to their PC, would they be able to use the VSTs? Provided I redirected the library location to the drive ofcourse. Finally, for paid VSTs which require a key (like iLOK) would I be able to still use them on an external drive?
Would I be able to use the VSTs on the external drive with any device that has the same DAW? (Scenario, Im working on my DAW with a VST on an external drive, I disconnect the drive, go to another device which has the same DAW, connect the drive and continue using the VST)
With a system drive that small you are going to spend about half your life messing around trying to make space on it. And the other half trying to sort out problems caused by not letting installations use their defaults.
I think your optimal end state would be to have both of your internal drives SSD while increasing the size of the C: drive. Depending on your specific usage that could mean moving the current C: to become D: while adding a new larger C:. Or replacing both with larger drives.
My system originally had a smaller SSD like yours for the system disk & a larger one for sample libraries. A couple of months ago I got sick of always having to clean up my system disk. So I swapped it out for one twice the size - really great decision. It cost less than $100 and I re-purposed the small SSD as a 2nd drive for samples.
you might want to consider to uninstall and re-install Cubase, pointing the installer to a secondary HD for the Content (like your D: drive). The Cubase application itself is not really big and should be installed on the local drive, as Martin correctly wrote, installation of the program on D: is not supported.
Although upgrading to a bigger SSD might be worth and a good choice for the future, I find my whole audio installation using less than 40GB on my C: SSD - I have Cubase, stand-alone programs, including (algo) synths, their presets and a few apps unrelated to audio on the C: drive. Large libraries (Steinberg, Toontrack, NI, IRs and samples) are installed on on my D: drive.
All my cubase stuff is on D drive and it works fine except for the vst instruments. I can open halion but not groove agent so I can write drum Line in midi track but no sound comes out. I been trying to figure this out for a week now and it still doesnt work. I NEED HELP. Halion work fine but theres no program in it so no sound either
Give to your new drive the same letter (should be E:\, judging by your photo) as your old drive, then give to your folders exactly the same names as they appeared in your old drive (E:\VSTi Libraries\ etc. etc), and try again! It should work!
For non-Kontakt Player content, you have the new option (since Kontakt 6.6) in Options->Loading, that sets the base path for such libraries. So that you can refer to them by relative paths, which also helps in transitioning projects between multiple machines (even if they're PC then Mac). What matters is that all libraries are laid out in subfolders under this path exactly the same across all machines. You can use symbolic links to libraries spread over multiple drives to achieve this.
Can someone give me a step by step on how to change the location where audio files are recorded? I have searched high and low and still cant figure it out. Right now the project is on my F drive but I want to record audio to a folder on my H drive since it is a faster drive.
Disc imaging software can get really confused.
Still replacing the drive is not that expensive and is fast. Cloning a 70gb SSD drive to a 256gb SSD drive only takes minutes.
It is not a good idea running a SSD near max capacity, depending on the provisioning the drive uses.
Some SSDs can use part of the empty space to remap lost drive memory, if it runs out the drive dies.
OK Many thanks guys.
New drive it is. So, any recommendations on a SSD instead of a hard drive ?
Also is it just a straight swap with my SATA system ?
My machine is Dell Vostro 420 Intel Core 2 Quad CPu Q6700 2.66Ghz Ram 8 GB
While I agree that a larger C: drive is a good idea, before you go to the trouble, familiarize yourself with the Windows Compression File Bug. I experienced the problem on a Win 7 machine here last September and was preparing to change out the drive when I came across this: Redirecting.
Following the instructions opened 150GB on my 250GB drive and completely eliminated the problem. Check it out.
This depends a great deal on how you use your system and the components of your system.
Reading audio data and playing it back from your project requires some load time, but is typically cached.
Writing audio data is very disk/cpu intensive. So having a dedicated project hard drive is preferable with large projects where you are say writing stems a lot. This is a WRITE heavy situation. If you use sample libraries, you have a heavy READ situation on instrument load. How this affects your system will depend on which sampler/rompler engine you are using, the amount of RAM you have and the size of the libraries you want to load. How y our computer shares the read/write bandwidth between hard drives will have a big impact on how much gain there is for splitting those functions out to various hard drives. SSDs have much greater read and write speed. Hence why people prefer them. But, they are not all created equal. And not all systems benefit from that speed.
I was looking (since all my other version content is on my L: drive) when I installed 10 and did not see an option to change the path.
So it all installed to my C: drive. I then used the library manager to move it all to the L: drive.
The library manager has functions to move all the large and small vstsound libraries to any location you wish. I have just used it myself to shift all the large Steinberg libraries from my C:\ to an alternate hard drive.
I actually use just the junctions, and it is the mechanism that Win 8.x uses for its libraries (Music, Downloads, etc), as it can be used across drives and partitions, and almost all programs cannot see ANY difference between content on a drive and that pointed to by a junction. junction.exe is good for this. 17dc91bb1f