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Figured out how to store OT libraries anywhere, not just root of drive

PaulieDC

PaulieDC

Too much gear, not enough composing. Oy vey.
Apologies WAY in advance if this is already public knowledge, but since SINE installs everything in the Orchestral Tools folder on the root of the drive that you select, I thought we HAD to keep it there. I stumbled onto a simple way to change that (waiting for the "DUH Paulie, we already knew this" replies, lol!). The steps:
  1. Download your library from SINE and pick your drive as usual and let it fly.
  2. Once done, move the Orchestral Tools folder where you want. In my case, onto my L: drive, inside a folder named Libraries.
  3. Open SINE back up, and on the Libraries page, click the +Collection link. You just have to click the word, the link doesn't light up when you hover over it.
  4. Nav to your Orchestral Tools folder in its new location, and click Select Folder. Don't open the SINE folder, it's the OT folder you want to select.
  5. SINE will basically inhale that new location, and you're done! It works FAST, the OT Dev team definitely did a great job coding this function. It's just not very apparent what to DO with that +Collection link sitting there all by itself.
Now the content where I want it:

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Then I wondered, what happens when you add a new library, or download one you already own the license for? I hadn't downloaded Ark Ø yet, so I did that and had to pick a drive of course. Once downloaded:
  • I moved the contents of the new SINE Player folder on the drive's root (basically the Content and Download folders containing Ark Ø data) to my permanent location, which ove course puts the data in the existing Content and Download folders.
  • Next I simply repeated Steps 3 and 4 above, selecting the location with +Collection. I wanted to see if SINE was clever enough to only inhale the library content that I added.
Happy to report that it worked perfectly, adding the additional library files, just by using +Collection and letting it do what it does.

It's a bit of an odd two-step procedure to pick your desired location and maybe future SINE version will allow us to pick when we download, but for now, their Collections link does the job.
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It's good to know that this works. But, for me, it's not worth the extra steps every time I an an instrument or library, just to keep an unnecessary folder out of the root of my samples drive. I'll wait for Orchestral Tools to fit the problem properly.

But the +Collection feature is very useful for a different purpose. I frequently download large libraries to my laptop on a much faster internet connection at a friend's house, then move them to my studio computer and delete them from the laptop.
 
rrichard63 said:
It's good to know that this works. But, for me, it's not worth the extra steps every time I an an instrument or library, just to keep an unnecessary folder out of the root of my samples drive. I'll wait for Orchestral Tools to fit the problem properly.

But the +Collection feature is very useful for a different purpose. I frequently download large libraries to my laptop on a much faster internet connection at a friend's house, then move them to my studio computer and delete them from the laptop.
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yeah, I know what you mean, just leaving it be is just simpler. On my home DAW tower I have a dedicated drive, but on my work tower I need all stuff in one place inside one folder, then it comes in handy.
 
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