hi a-sexxerz,

how do you set up your partition on pc hdd for audio workstation...?just system and another partition ....or more partitions....???

thanx and peace

 

Partitions always give me headaches, its important for me only when you have different OSs.
You must thinks in opposite direction: instead divide, add.
So raid it is!
When you divide you decrease the HD performance unless you have an SSD.
With raid you double and so on the performance.

 

ahh cool ...this time i got no partitions...BTW..and kept paths short....e.g C:VST.....

 

I put my DAW on the same partition as the OS; it is usually around 100 Gigs in size.
The plugins are on a separate drive, in a separate partition
The Instruments are on another partition on the fastest drive with a big cache.

No Internet is allowed on such a machine; all unnecessary services and programs are deinstalled, ethernet card is disabled in sys proprieties, and just a few programs like audio and video converters, zip, rar, notepad++ are installed.

It works very good for me this way, and I had no problems for years.
With every new DAW that I use (it happens once in 2-3 Years), I reinstall the OS and refresh the plugins.

ps.
I am talking about a private Home Studio... never done any professional jobs on it

 

yes this is my way too and try this time to install as less plugins and samples as possible and not to much intruments on my laptop 300gb 4gb ram 2*2,1gh cpu

in future i think i will build my other pc like you said

you got 3 drives but why do you partitioning when you got 3 real ones

 

I agree wasgedn! it's a good way to use C:\VST32 and C:\VST64, it's more friendly than C:\Program Files (x86)\Steinberg\blablabla

Good idea is to declare these folders in Registry, like

for 64-bit plugins (x64 Windows only):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VST
Create "VSTPluginsPath" as string value and set to "C:\VST64"

for 32-bit plugins (x64 Windows only):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\VST
Create "VSTPluginsPath" as string value and set to "C:\VST32"

Many DAWs and installers (like N.I. or Waves installers) can use these Registry entries. Unfortunately, other can't do (ignore Registry keys/values) or are totally buggy like iZotope installers (expensive products with crappy installers - all are badly made with freeware "Inno Setup" compiler, yes my friend, money is money ).

For 32-bit plugins on x86 Windows:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VST
Create "VSTPluginsPath" as string value and set to "C:\VST" or "C:\VST32"


Another good idea, if you're using many HDDs, is to move swap file to another disk (avoid slow & storage disks and SSD, however).

 

Hey bud, how do I go about doing this, I'm a bit green when it comes to the finer details of computers
I do know enough, however, to know that would be a good idea

 

Hi Vince,

1. Open notepad, then copy following bold lines:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VST]
"VSTPluginsPath"="C:\\VST64"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\VST]
"VSTPluginsPath"="C:\\VST32"



(first is for 64-bit VST plugin path, second for 32-bit VST plugin path, of course on 64-bit Windows. On 32-bit Windows simply ignore the last two lines (because Wow6432Node doesn't exist on x86 Windows). Don't forget to adjust paths as required, to match with your system. Be careful, all paths use double backslashes as folder separator - exactly what you can see above e.g. C:\\VST64 assuming all 64-bit VST are located in C:\VST64 (and it's subfolders)


2. Save the file naming it as "VST.reg" (for example) anywhere you yant (Desktop or Documents).

3. From Explorer, double click on "VST.reg" file to import to Registry. Important: you must have Administrator privileges to do this!

They're many videos on the net explaining "regedit" & Windows Registry usage.

 

Thanks for that, I appreciate it
It seems to have worked.

Now I'll go do a bit of research on registry usage as you suggested.

cheers, Vince

 

thank you a lot mozartestla i will do it on my x64 machine.....sorry i forgoot about this thread completly ....