Setting up files

Mantif
Mantif Member Posts: 4 Newcomer
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is there a process in setting up where to save sample files and should the files be saved on a external hard drive instead of the Mac hardwire?

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  • ALDREAD
    ALDREAD Member Posts: 433 Pro
    edited April 5 Answer ✓
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/44160/setting-up-files

    in the maschine sw settings goto / library/ user

    There’s paths there to the maschine 3 folder which is in the NI folder , this holds the project , groups , sound, samples , recordings, folders

    Another path is to the user folder in the native instruments folder , for user preset of vst that can be used by maschine and kk

    These are on your main hdd by default

    You can change these , by clicking on them and adding a new path ( copy ni folder to external drive and point both paths to it and the maschine folder)

    you can also add new paths , by clicking add , for 3rd party samples

  • ALDREAD
    ALDREAD Member Posts: 433 Pro
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/220120#Comment_220120

    yeah , as long as you move the current maschine folder to an external and point maschine too it , it will work without any issues

    I save to my internal drive atm , I’ve saved to external ,but I’ve got enough room on my internal atm , all my libraries/ plugin presets are on an external ,

    I also like to use the “save with samples” save , for projects and groups/sounds so everything stays together

  • Mantif
    Mantif Member Posts: 4 Newcomer
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    nah I didn’t path them. For some reason my chop samples I create don’t follow the external hd. Normally if I download a sample from YouTube and drag the file from Apple Music player, then chop it, it seems like the original download file stays in Apple Music or something. All I know is, if I save all files with samples as a project and path it to save in the external HD, then use that external HD in another computer, it does not find those samples. If I go back to the original computer with the external HD it works fine. I thought by saving all my projects to the external HD would work anyplace I use it, but I am wrong, it’s not working that way. Instead it’s saving those samples independently in the fist computer. SMH…

  • ALDREAD
    ALDREAD Member Posts: 433 Pro
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/220174#Comment_220174

    I’ll have a look some more tomorrow

    Recordings by default are saved to the recording folder , but as soon as you save with samples , a copy is saved there too

    If you open a project and save with samples straight away , the recording gets saved to the (save with samples folder) and not the recording folder

    But it should work

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  • ALDREAD
    ALDREAD Member Posts: 433 Pro
    edited April 5 Answer ✓
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/44160/setting-up-files

    in the maschine sw settings goto / library/ user

    There’s paths there to the maschine 3 folder which is in the NI folder , this holds the project , groups , sound, samples , recordings, folders

    Another path is to the user folder in the native instruments folder , for user preset of vst that can be used by maschine and kk

    These are on your main hdd by default

    You can change these , by clicking on them and adding a new path ( copy ni folder to external drive and point both paths to it and the maschine folder)

    you can also add new paths , by clicking add , for 3rd party samples

  • Mantif
    Mantif Member Posts: 4 Newcomer

    thank you very much!
    So all my chops and samples that are saved for a project, should be in the same location. My MAC. HD is running out of space, hence the ask to relocate them to an external hard drive. May I ask, where da you save all your files internal or external HD?

  • ALDREAD
    ALDREAD Member Posts: 433 Pro
    Answer ✓
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/220120#Comment_220120

    yeah , as long as you move the current maschine folder to an external and point maschine too it , it will work without any issues

    I save to my internal drive atm , I’ve saved to external ,but I’ve got enough room on my internal atm , all my libraries/ plugin presets are on an external ,

    I also like to use the “save with samples” save , for projects and groups/sounds so everything stays together

  • Mantif
    Mantif Member Posts: 4 Newcomer

    thank you very much for your replies and knowledge, you kinda lost me with the term internal drive atm. ATM meaning network or something else? I am about to get a new computer, so I want to set it up properly with using maschine music creation. I think I got what you’re saying, in the past I’ve saved the project with samples to the external HD, problem with that is everything does not end up on the external HD. I was thinking I could take my external hd and use it as a plug and play when plugging into any computer that has maschine 3.0 and open the projects, But I get an error as if those samples did not exist on the external HD. It appears the samples stayed on that old computer. Does that make sense?

  • ALDREAD
    ALDREAD Member Posts: 433 Pro
    edited April 5
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/220139#Comment_220139

    internal drive , the one inside my Mac ( built in)

    Yeah that makes sense, because probably some of your samples are from the maschine library, or samples from expansions etc , they will be installed in the shared folder on your computer by native access , those samples stay in that location when you save a project and maschine will know where they are (point to that location)

    If you use the - save with samples - option when saving a project , all the samples in your project will be saved to a folder in the project folder, alongside the project file , this does mean you will start to duplicate stuff , but it does keep things more organised and makes it easier/ possible to take your external drive with the maschine folder elsewhere

  • ALDREAD
    ALDREAD Member Posts: 433 Pro
    edited April 5
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/220139#Comment_220139

    sorry I misread , you were saying you did use the save with samples option but you still had samples missing , maybe that’s a licensing thing , maybe they’ve stopped allowing copyrighted samples to be saved ,

    I’ll have to test that out see what happens , it used to save any sample to a folder , unless you have the box checked , for delete unused samples , then it would obviously only save , ones that were being used

  • ALDREAD
    ALDREAD Member Posts: 433 Pro
    edited April 5
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/220139#Comment_220139

    when you were taking those samples elsewhere, where they in the maschine folder ? Were they user samples ?

    And did you add a path to them in maschine , and rescan on the other computer,

    did Maschine ask to locate , and you couldn’t find them

  • Mantif
    Mantif Member Posts: 4 Newcomer
    Answer ✓

    nah I didn’t path them. For some reason my chop samples I create don’t follow the external hd. Normally if I download a sample from YouTube and drag the file from Apple Music player, then chop it, it seems like the original download file stays in Apple Music or something. All I know is, if I save all files with samples as a project and path it to save in the external HD, then use that external HD in another computer, it does not find those samples. If I go back to the original computer with the external HD it works fine. I thought by saving all my projects to the external HD would work anyplace I use it, but I am wrong, it’s not working that way. Instead it’s saving those samples independently in the fist computer. SMH…

  • ALDREAD
    ALDREAD Member Posts: 433 Pro
    Answer ✓
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/220174#Comment_220174

    I’ll have a look some more tomorrow

    Recordings by default are saved to the recording folder , but as soon as you save with samples , a copy is saved there too

    If you open a project and save with samples straight away , the recording gets saved to the (save with samples folder) and not the recording folder

    But it should work

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