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Installing Studio One on External SSD
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Though I'm running an M4 Mini, I haven't done that (yes, I'm that guy...). But what I did is install all the sample and loop content for Studio One and plugins on the external drive. Most (all?) plugins with sample libraries allow you to set a different directory for the content from the code.
That's what takes most of the space. And (IMO) you want the S1 program and plugin program code to be on the fastest drive (which is the internal) if for no other reason to get the S1 startup and plugin scan to be as fast as possible.
That's what takes most of the space. And (IMO) you want the S1 program and plugin program code to be on the fastest drive (which is the internal) if for no other reason to get the S1 startup and plugin scan to be as fast as possible.
On my external drive, I have the sound libraries for my plugins from Toontrack, Native Instruments, Arturia, UAD and Waves. The plugins for all of them are on my internal M4 SSD.
*** Clarificattion *** I wrote the above from memory, then subsequently went into Superior Settings. You'll see from the screen below, my settings show that the installation of Superior is on my external drive (which was probably what drove your original question). And yes, that works. What actually happens is that the core Superior plugin is still installed on the internal drive, but everything else is on the external drive.
The other vendors that I've mentioned all have download managers and in the download manager they have preferences that allow you to install the plugin and the content in different locations.
*** Clarificattion *** I wrote the above from memory, then subsequently went into Superior Settings. You'll see from the screen below, my settings show that the installation of Superior is on my external drive (which was probably what drove your original question). And yes, that works. What actually happens is that the core Superior plugin is still installed on the internal drive, but everything else is on the external drive.
The other vendors that I've mentioned all have download managers and in the download manager they have preferences that allow you to install the plugin and the content in different locations.
TY JS. Thats what i did too with Superior. The way you have done it is what i'll do. The core of Studio One is 300mb and the 40Gb of all the other content going into the SSD. I'm trying to save as much of the 512 Gb Internal Drive. I did see on YTube that it is possible to have the external SSD to be faster then the internal drive speed.