Is an SSD essential for SD3?

[John Zuker]

I don’t have enough space on either of my two Solid State Drives for the complete SD3 lib/mic configs. (Too filled up with a lot of orchestral libs).

I have a maxed out mid 2010 (cheese grater) Mac Pro 12 core (2 x 3.46ghz 6 core) with 64g of RAM running OS X Sierra. I don’t have any more PCI slots available to install additional SSD cards.

My SD2 and EZD2 libraries currently reside on an internal 7200 rpm Hard Drive with plenty of space on it. Does the new library require or, at least, “very much prefer” an SSD for streaming? Would running SD3 off the internal HD perform too erratically, or too sluggishly and bog things down?

Thanks.

John

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[Henrik]

The drawback of having a slower hard drive is that it takes longer to load libraries, presets and drums. When it has completed the loading, the drums will kept in RAM.

The audio quality will suffer if you have too little RAM installed, say 2GB, and you load a 4GB preset. In that case will your operating system place stuff that can’t be placed in the RAM on your hard drive instead as swap files, and it will slow things up.

64GB RAM should be more than enough to keep the Superior stuff in RAM 🙂

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[John Zuker]

Ok, thanks.
So the samples are not streaming from the drive when in use?!
That’s good to know. Longer load times are annoying, but not a deal breaker.

[Henrik]

@John said:
So the samples are not streaming from the drive when in use?!

Exactly 🙂

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[nigro]

Hi

How can I use the SSD Drive, I do not get it, I don’t see the libraries in the program, superior drummer 3.Can you help me please with that

/Leo

Operating system: macOS High Sierra (10.13)

[John]

Hi Leo,

can you please elaborate? When you write ‘the SSD Drive’, are you referring to the SSD drive with pre-installed SD3 core library previously sold by Toontrack?

Is the Drive mounted and visible in the Finder? If so, does it have any folders and files on it?

If it does indeed have the ‘SL-SuperiorDrummer3’ folder on it, you can check the Settings > Libraries/Paths if the Library is added and then check the path and correct if needed. If it’s not there, please add it.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

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