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they're telling me 2011.5 audiophile comes on an external hard drive...which is great...but...do we still have the ability to install the program itself on the pc's local drive...[so as to follow the proper guideline of: audio app on local drive...audio files (binary data) on secondary drive]...???



It's completely your choice. There's a Setup icon on the PG Music drive with three options. Just read those carefully, pick one and follow the instructions. When someone specifically asked Peter what he recommended he said if you have a big fast hard drive to install everything including all the Real Tracks/Drums onto your local C drive which is what I did. The standard RT's and programs are about 45 gigs on that drive and the Audiophile version I think is over 150 gigs. You need a big system drive to install all that. A lot of people including me for years ran the programs strictly from the external PG hard drive with no problems at all. One of the options is to install the programs only and keep the RT's on the external drive. That works fine too.

I don't think it really matters much where they are as far as working with the RT's are concerned as long as you point the programs to the correct location and that is spelled out in the instructions. Working with regular streaming audio inside a DAW like Sonar, yes the standard way is to stream all the audio back and forth from a separate drive with the program itself on your C drive.

Bob

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