Solved External drive

[Johnnyguru]

Hi,
New to studio one and this forum.
Can anyone tell me how to download studio one6 to an external hard drive?

 

[Midiboy]

If you are talking about installing it to an external drive for the purpose of using it no matter what computer you are at like you can with Reaper Portable, you cannot. It needs to be installed on the computer you are using it on, so it can register what needs to be registered in the registry. It also requires activation on your computer. I believe...it can be activated on 2, or maybe it's 3 computers? I forget. I have it on 2. But it is NOT a portable install.

 

[Johnnyguru]

Thank you,
I have it installed and running on a mac book pro. I am thinking of storing tracks and instruments and the like on an external drive so as to save space on my hard drive, if this is at all possible?

 

[SwitchBack]

Best to differentiate between material/files used in one song only, and everything else. It also depends on how faithful you kept to Studio One's defaults for storing a song's data.

The default storage location for files pertaining to a particular song is inside that song's root folder (which by default gets the same name as the song) and its subdirectories. If you're not sure if that's the case (e.g. because you tend to drag files from other locations into song arrangements) then you can open a song before archiving and evoke the Song/Copy External Files... command. This will place duplicates of all external files in the Song's default locations, updating the file references in the song too. Now you can close the song and archive it by dragging the root directory to the external drive. To save some extra space (or sometimes a lot) you can delete the Cache directory first. What's still needed from it will be recreated the next time you open the song. Note that songs archived this way can be opened from the archive location. Handy.

Now you can remove the song from the computer. The tricky thing is that the song's directories may also contain files used by other songs, depending on your MO. Then you have to open those other songs and do the Song/Copy External Files... command thing before you delete the archived song. Depending on your housekeeping you may want to do that with all the songs you keep on the laptop. I wonder if the batch editor can do this for you...

Everything else (plug-ins, instruments) may be shared between songs, so when in doubt this stuff is better left alone. You may of course have your own system of storing files on your computer. In that case you are your own best advisor.

Hope this helps

 

[Midiboy]

You can absolutely do that. In the Locations tab of your settings, you can specify things. Also when you create a new song, you can specify the path on the setup screen for your new song.