Thanks to Matt, Noel and Catherine for the information. USB 3.2 (1050 mb/s) is significantly faster than the previous 2024 Hd (approximately 70 mb/s). Very good news
Sounds right. I have 2 internal M.2 drives of 2 TB each. If that was a question, then I agree, I do not know any stock laptop where installing BIAB audiophile internally makes sense.
Yes, it was a question, but also we wondering out aloud! Matt, I apologize for being unclear.
My current drive it 1TB, which I have pared down from 80% full to 40% full by moving files to second 2TB drive which has a LOT of immovable (or difficult to remove) Native Instruments sounds, EST's etc. It was a nightmare installing and registering those, so they will stay.
I have about 600MB available on my main drive. On chat, the rep indicated that the drive does have about 750GB of 1TB on the shipped drive, and so a full install won't happen. My remaining files on my main drive are my DAW (Mixcraft 10.5) and the files I have created from mixing songs there. That's basically immovable.
I am therefore about to do option 2, as described in the install process below (I pasted it from the drive - I hope I am not wasting too much space or time pasting it here deep in a forum response).
Just for fun, I clicked on Option 4 "Custom Installation" where in the process, as I clicked next, it is interesting to note that the FLAC files alone are "585,110.7MB" (see attached file BinaBox01 121424) - that right there confirmed for me I don't have enough space, unless I don't write and record any more songs!!
Thank you for reading (or ignoring) my out-loud musings.
Option 4: Custom Installation - Let me choose exactly what I want to install (Advanced). This will allow you to select all the specific components that you want to install. This option is useful if there is one particular component you need to reinstall.
Please see the "ReadMe First" file on the hard drive for more detailed information.
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Tom Marvan Dunbar7376 San Diego, CA
Band in A Box Audiophile 2025
MSI GE66 10SFS 15.6" Laptop (Model GE66048) Intel Core i7 10th Gen i7-10750H 2.6ghz 32GB DDR4 RAM 2666mhz 8GB GDDR6 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 1920x1080 Full HD LED 2x1TB NVMe SSD PCI
This is step to get the same audio format on Win & Mac, if the Win version could just be made now to decompress m4a also and phase out wma. "BiaB Audiophile SSD arrived today" mine was supposed to be here on the 12th via UPS. You would think UPS would charge less now for shipping with a much lighter weight, maybe PG could put in a smaller package.
"BiaB Audiophile SSD arrived today" mine was supposed to be here on the 12th via UPS.
Were you naughty?
If so "he's gonna find out..." ♩♪♫♬
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Hello Tom. I installed Biab2025 using Biab Install Manager. I don't have the SSD yet. There you don't have to select between the four options that do appear when installing from the ssd. You just tell it which unit it will be installed in. I choose C:/ and it will be only 35 or 50 Gb. But the "Realtracks" and "Drums" folders can be copied to other external or internal drives and tell Biab where to find them. "Options/preferences/Realdrums/Custom drums folder" And "Options/preferences/Realtracks/Custom Realtracks folder You can even put the "Drums" folder on one drive and the "Realtracks" folder on a different drive So by doing so you get what the aforementioned option 2 proposes Best regards
My BIAB arrived today! It's incredible speed. It left PG Music on December 10, crossed the international date line and had an extra day added to it, and it is now December 16. The difference in drive sizes between last year and this year is enormous! It's now more "Band In A Matchbox" rather than "Band In A Box"
Hello Tom. I installed Biab2025 using Biab Install Manager. I don't have the SSD yet. There you don't have to select between the four options that do appear when installing from the ssd. You just tell it which unit it will be installed in. I choose C:/ and it will be only 35 or 50 Gb. But the "Realtracks" and "Drums" folders can be copied to other external or internal drives and tell Biab where to find them. "Options/preferences/Realdrums/Custom drums folder" And "Options/preferences/Realtracks/Custom Realtracks folder You can even put the "Drums" folder on one drive and the "Realtracks" folder on a different drive So by doing so you get what the aforementioned option 2 proposes Best regards
That is a great idea!
Namely, I currently have the Real Tracks and Drum Tracks folders set to D (my where my SSD drive is plugged into, including the newly-arrived one) anyway, why not just load the program as I always do on my first internal 1TB drive (C:), and direct the files for Real Tracks and Drums to my second internal 2TB drive (E:)!
Hmmm, I am loving the portability of the little drive and prefer spending time on composing, but I may have to do spend some time rearranging things this way. Thank you for making a better path clear to me!
Hmm, I wonder how I would do this. Run reinstall and tell it load Real and Drum tracks to E:?
Tom Marvan Dunbar7376 San Diego, CA
Band in A Box Audiophile 2025
MSI GE66 10SFS 15.6" Laptop (Model GE66048) Intel Core i7 10th Gen i7-10750H 2.6ghz 32GB DDR4 RAM 2666mhz 8GB GDDR6 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 1920x1080 Full HD LED 2x1TB NVMe SSD PCI
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