Save/export to external storage with Maschine+?

January 28 (2022) the blog posted an article about adding external storage to your Maschine+ for more possibilities. Adding drives like USB, SSD or HDD for more space and so on sounded great.
But no matter how much I search among menus and settings and button combinations, I find nowhere where I can SAVE or EXPORT to a place other than the default SD card. 🤔
Am I doing something wrong, or is this not a feature?
What else is the point of adding extra space via USB / SSD / HDD like that if it only can be used as read only. Do not understand the point of the article in that case.
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What else is the point of adding extra space via USB / SSD / HDD like that if it only can be used as read only. Do not understand the point of the article in that case.
Samples and presets. I have a USB drive where I keep reaktor and massive presets and a 2nd where I keep a handful of samples and kontakt patches.
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But wouldn't it be more useful if you could write to the USB drive directly from the M+ if you tweaked presets and samples etc there and wanted them to be saved. As I understand you now have to save on the SD card/internal, and then take out the card/or use in storage mode and from your computer put these saved versions on the USB drive. Right? Sounds very cumbersome.
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For what I need it for? Not really. It's insignificant to me but mainly because I view maschine as a preset browser. I happily live within the confines of maschine's library management. I'll use my computer if I want/need more.
...but I'm not arguing against it as a feature. I'm just stating how I use the existing functionality.
If I had my way; we'd have SSH access and could use something like SCP or SFTP to copy files over the network. Doubt they want to go into that can of worms though.
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Hey @Thin Elephant, maybe our latest Maschine+ article can help you shed some light on this:
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That's the article I'm talking about.
When I read it I thought "So you can actually add a USB/SSD/HDD and save projects/presets/whatever or export your audio to them directly for easy handling between the M+ and a computer? Great!"
But I later found out when testing that my thoughts was way off as I could not find anything in the settings /handling that supported my hopes (after reading the article). It turns out you can ONLY READ from these drives... 😭
Or am I wrong and just don't know how to do it? That's my point with this thread.
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@Thin Elephant I read the article and thought as did you, M+ could save USER edits to the USB drive. Like you, I could not find a means to do so, and conclude the USB is to read only.
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@donovick @Thin Elephant I think the article refers to sample libraries, not projects. 😕 For saving projects, external drives are currently not supported, but you can save projects in an SD card though - and not necessarily the default SD card either.
@Thin Elephant Can you pls check if you followed all the steps in this article?
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From the article:
Once you do have a storage device connected and working, you can load content freely in BROWSER > USER. Your PROJECTS, GROUPS, SOUNDS, INSTRUMENTS, EFFECTS, LOOPS, and ONE-SHOTS will all appear accordingly.
Why isn’t this the case? Am I doing something wrong here or is an external SSD only for reading Loops and One-shot samples?
This (marketing) article made me think I could read and write all of the above to the USB drive. And, hopefully I could transfer Projects (including samples) to the desktop, too.
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