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I found out (using duplicate file search in CCleaner) there are many sound files such as classic electric piano.stw and demo that presents in 2 different directories on my PC.... is it ok to delete one of them? my laptop has very limited space of 100GB and a few hundred MB will make a difference
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_Warm Picked Acoustic.stw C:\Program Files (x86)\IK Multimedia\Instruments\Band-in-a-Box\Guitar 19.5 MB 21/06/12 1:06:52 AM
Warm Picked Acoustic.stw C:\Program Files (x86)\IK Multimedia\SampleTank 2.5\Instruments\Band-in-a-Box\Guitar 19.5 MB 21/06/12 1:06:52 AM
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Acoustic Grand Piano.stw C:\Program Files (x86)\IK Multimedia\Instruments\Band-in-a-Box\Piano 139 MB 29/11/12 9:03:52 AM
Acoustic Grand Piano.stw C:\Program Files (x86)\IK Multimedia\SampleTank 2.5\Instruments\Band-in-a-Box\Piano 139 MB 29/11/12 9:03:52 AM
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Bright Grand Piano.stw C:\Program Files (x86)\IK Multimedia\Instruments\Band-in-a-Box\Piano 62.4 MB 29/11/12 5:04:50 AM
Bright Grand Piano.stw C:\Program Files (x86)\IK Multimedia\SampleTank 2.5\Instruments\Band-in-a-Box\Piano 62.4 MB 29/11/12 5:04:50 AM
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Classic Electric Piano.stw C:\Program Files (x86)\IK Multimedia\Instruments\Band-in-a-Box\Piano 160 MB 27/11/12 10:35:40 AM
Classic Electric Piano.stw C:\Program Files (x86)\IK Multimedia\SampleTank 2.5\Instruments\Band-in-a-Box\Piano 160 MB 27/11/12 10:35:40 AM
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A check on the BIAB harddrive reveal many small duplicate files:[/b]
_CLTARPG Demo (George Brabazon, 2nd air) Melody.wma D:\bb\MIDI SuperTracks - Demos 3.01 MB 27/11/12 5:20:14 AM
_CLTARPG Demo (George Brabazon, 2nd air) Melody.wma D:\bb\MIDI SuperTracks - Demos\MIDI SuperTracks4 Demos - Folk, Pop & New Age 3.01 MB 27/11/12 5:20:14 AM
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_CTWLZPS Demo (Si Bheag, Si Mhor - waltz) Melody.wma D:\bb\MIDI SuperTracks - Demos 3.70 MB 27/11/12 1:22:14 AM
_CTWLZPS Demo (Si Bheag, Si Mhor - waltz) Melody.wma D:\bb\MIDI SuperTracks - Demos\MIDI SuperTracks4 Demos - Folk, Pop & New Age 3.70 MB 27/11/12 1:22:14 AM
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bs3479.wma D:\bb\RealTracks\Bass, Electric, FunkyGroove60s Ev 100 1.37 MB 28/06/13 11:00:00 PM
bs3479.wma D:\bb\RealTracks\Direct Input\Bass, Electric, FunkyGroove60s Ev 100 Direct Input 1.37 MB 28/06/13 11:00:00 PM
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bs3480.wma D:\bb\RealTracks\Bass, Electric, FunkyGroove60s Ev 100 1.37 MB 28/06/13 11:00:00 PM
bs3480.wma D:\bb\RealTracks\Direct Input\Bass, Electric, FunkyGroove60s Ev 100 Direct Input 1.37 MB 28/06/13 11:00:00 PM
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bs3481.wma D:\bb\RealTracks\Bass, Electric, FunkyGroove60s Ev 100 1.37 MB 28/06/13 11:00:00 PM
bs3481.wma D:\bb\RealTracks\Direct Input\Bass, Electric, FunkyGroove60s Ev 100 Direct Input 1.37 MB 28/06/13 11:00:00 PM
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The files listed under the SampleTank 2.5 folder are so you can use SampleTank 2.5 in standalone mode. The files under the BB folder are so BiaB and RB can use them.
If you're not sure which to delete, or want to verify you can safely delete, rename the folder to something like foldername_old then see if the associated programs (in this case BiaB, RB & SampleTank continue to work as expected or if error messages get generated.
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One important tip: when renaming, be consistent with your names so you can correctly rename back to the original.
In Jim's example, add _old to each one so you know to remove just that to get back to original name.
I knew someone that renamed them in different ways then had a difficult time getting them back to the correct names. It's a safe easy way to test if done consistently.
Make your sound your own!
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No edges here, but could it be that the files under the ST2.5\Instruments\BB folder are for BB, and the files under IKMultimedia\Instruments\BB are for the standalone SampleTank?
If I understand Jim's post above, this is the reverse of what I think he said. (I could be wrong of course, since I'm a newbie.)
The reason I think this way is that I don't have much space on my C drive, so just installed BB on my D drive. But the BB installer installed the free ST2.5 on my C drive (the default location). I just bought some ST expansion packs, but couldn't copy those big packs on to my crowded C drive.
So I uninstalled the BB-installed-ST25 on my C drive, downloaded a ST2.5 installer from IK, and reinstalled ST.25 on D:\....\IK\ST2.5. Of course this separate installer did not come with the BB-installed ST files, so I had to manually copy over the BB HQ ST files into my new location.
There were 2 copies of the files in my C drive, as was described above. One copy in C:\..IK\Instruments\BB\*, and a second copy in C:\..IK\ST25\Instruments\BB\*. I had no idea why there were two copies.
Thinking (as maybe Jim's post was thinking) that IK\Instruments\BB was the logical place for BB to find the instruments, I only copied that single folder over.
But when I booted up BB, it spotted my mistake, and popped up an error message that said: "Can't find .. in [the IK\ST25\Instruments\BB location]. Solution is to copy IK\Instruments\BB to IK\ST25\Instruments\BB."
And so I did, and BB could find the instruments fine. So I am thinking BB needs the files below the ST25 folder.
Just for fun, I booted up ST2.5 standalone (from my start menu), and it showed all the BB files. So it must also use the files in the IK\ST25\Instruments folder, since I only manually copied over the one folder.
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kevinj:
I got BiaB 2014 3 days ago, installed it on W7 X64 and tested the basic functions.
As in my BiaB pack i got a Sampletank 2.5.5.b release, I installed it also but while in BiaB I can play the ST sounds quite well they sound terrifficly when I play them in the ST 2.5.5.b stand alone player. All is quite distorted, completely unusuable.
I found all my ST content in "IK Multimedia " folder, in the bb folder I can not see any Sampletank stuff.
Is this "marketing" trick or perhaps an installation error?
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