EastWest Installation advise please

[georginasaint]

I-468 - thanks for the link - yes I did remember that and reread it before I posted here. I did what you said back then and my EastWest worked to a point. But it seemed to loose the Halione sounds that came with Cubase once it found E/W and it couldn't find Halione at all. But two things: E/W multis didn't seem to load properly - I could only ever use one sound. I presume you should hear all the instruments you load into a multi? And when I loaded a single instrument, the name of the instrument wasn't showing up in the instrument rack, which I think it should. So I thought I'd reinstall everything and point Cubase to the E/W sounds during the install in the hope this would sort these problems out. I've reinstalled Cubase and now the Halione sounds are there (first time I've heard them - they're kind of disappointing compared to E/W!!) and now I'm going to reinstall E/W and hopefully it will all work properly. I'm just struggling with whether to wait till I get an external drive (& should I get an audio specific one or get a cheap one for backing up?) or just install it on the same drive for now so I can get some work done.

[georginasaint]

Also, Hummingbird said:An additional option (I think) would be to take your tower into a reputable computer store and ask them to add another internal SATA drive for you, and while you're there, get them to add 2 GBs of ram. But even then, I would recommend the external drive(s) for back-ups.You should have 3 drives, as I have mentioned above, plus the external drive for back-ups. I can't do this with my laptop I don't think? There's nowhere to install any new hardware. But I have an old tower which maybe if I stuffed it full of extra memory etc I could link it up to my laptop, as if it were an external hard drive.... ?

[ibanez468]

I guess if I were in your shoes, I'd install on the same drive for now (if drive can handle capacity) so's I could get some work done, and deal with external drives and all, at a later date. You can always copy/move the sounds/articulations to another drive when it's appropriate. Hope that helps.I-468

[hummingbird]

Jun 6, 2008, 4:29am, georginasaint wrote:Also, Hummingbird said:An additional option (I think) would be to take your tower into a reputable computer store and ask them to add another internal SATA drive for you, and while you're there, get them to add 2 GBs of ram. But even then, I would recommend the external drive(s) for back-ups.You should have 3 drives, as I have mentioned above, plus the external drive for back-ups. I can't do this with my laptop I don't think? There's nowhere to install any new hardware. But I have an old tower which maybe if I stuffed it full of extra memory etc I could link it up to my laptop, as if it were an external hard drive.... ?Ah, well I didn't know you were on a laptop. I didn't see your specs anywhere. It seems to me it's only sensible then, to get two external hard drives as mentioned above, one for back-ups and one for samples.

[georginasaint]

Hi guys, thanks for taking the time to respond, I really appreciate it - I learn so much from these forums. I think you're both right here in your last two posts. I need to install my E/W on the same drive for now and "just do a nice little flute tune" as my fellow composer said and see about getting the right kind of drives so I get the right thing.Many thanks for your thoughts. Hope to see you around in the forwards and success stories...