Starting out.....AGAIN.

[mike_da_min]

Simple Question. Have a laptop with 60GB (Vista has the other 160GB) And I have an external 160GB. To run SAW effectively, where do I install everything. I have 30 Discs of VSTi's and Soft Synths and maybe 14 Plugins I use the mostly. I also have like trilogy, spectrasonics, virtual grand, and two versions of cubase that I use for MIDI until I can afford MWS. Any help would be appreciated. Oh and not that it matters, but I am running all of this through the presonus digimax thingy. Thanks for the help.

[DominicPerry]

Mike,

I'd just install SAW on the internal (60GB) partition - I assume that is your C: drive? If you let SAW go in it's normal, default place (C:\Sawstudio for Full, probably something like C:\SAWStudioLite for Lite), then it's far less confusing.
I, personally, wouldn't put it on the external drive - once you start installing plugins, especially VSTs and similar, then the registry hooks for those will always expect the directory to be in the same place - if you've installed on an external drive, say D:\SAWStudio\VST_Plugins and then you add another drive, like a CD, then your external might become E: so the directory for SAW will become E:\SAWStudio\VST_Plugins, and your shortcuts won't work and nor will your VST plugins.

Is that answer too long?

Short answer - internal drive - C drive, default path.

Dominic

[DominicPerry]

If you think you're going to run out of space for the masses of VSTi's you have, then get something like Acronis Disk Director and change the partition size - steal some of your Vista 160GB drive space and add it to your 60GB XP partition.

Dominic

[Bill Park]

I know that my thinking runs counter to the norm these days, but can you really possibly learn how to use 30 disks of VSTis? I still have toruble with all of the options of the 30 or 40 effects that I own and I know that I have not scratched the surface of what they can do. Some I've never even used.

[dragoodan]

It is a lot of Vsti space.. but, for those of us that use synths for inability to use live recordings, the more the merrier, since you have a broader palette to choose from. Also, the better the quality, the larger the space required (since they are sampled sounds)