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InfiniteTrees

Do I seriously have to download Sound Library AGAIN to run it from my External HD if I use Logic on both my Mac Mini and my Macbook Pro?

So I've had my Macbook pro for a while, recently got Logic and downloaded the 60gig sound library, then relocated to my External HD to save space. All good so far.

Now I've even more recently bought a Mac mini, specifically for producing on logic. I've copied Logic to my mac mini, but I can't fucking figure out how to make it connect to the sound library that's on my EHD.

so on apple's website I find

"You can't share a Sound Library between Mac computers. If you have more than one Mac running Logic Pro or MainStage, each Mac needs its own Sound Library."

fuck me. are you seriously telling me I have to download the 60gig library AGAIN and ALSO have that on my EHD, to run it on my mac mini? So I need 2 copies of the sound library to run logic on my mac mini and macbook pro?

surely this can't be right. please help me. legit considering moving to ableton over this

Posted Jul 19, 2019, 3:55 AM UTC

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ColdwaterTSK•

Have you tried a symbolic link?

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InfiniteTreesOP•

i haven't, i honestly dont know much about this and couldnt find clear info

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ColdwaterTSK•

Yeah, it's unfortunately not very intuitive. I'm not sure this will work in your situation, but it's certainly worth a try.

Download "symbolic linker"

Create a symbolic link: TO the sound library location on your external drive FROM the library folder on your system drive.

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ColdwaterTSK•

Yeah, it's unfortunately not very intuitive. I'm not sure this will work in your situation, but it's certainly worth a try.

Download "symbolic linker"

Create a symbolic link: TO the sound library location on your external drive FROM the library folder on your system drive.

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InfiniteTreesOP•

thanks man ill try this tonight

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ColdwaterTSK•

Good luck!

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jlozada24•

I’m 100% sure you can run both off the same drive and share the libraries. (Source: I do this every single day at work)

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InfiniteTreesOP•

thanks for the reassurance. do you know the process to make this work?

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jlozada24•

Yeah so what you have to do is first set it up with the external on computer #1 and make sure it all works. Then connect it to computer #2 and it won’t let you install it on the drive since there’s already Logic library files on it.

1.Quit Logic 2.Go on finder and delete the library folder on the external drive (do not clear trash) 3. Open logic again and set it to download to the external drive (as if you were doing it again from scratch) 4. After at least one library file gets downloaded, quit Logic 5. Go back to finder and delete the newly created Logic library folder then restore the old one from the trash 6. Open Logic 7. Make music!!

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InfiniteTreesOP•

man, thank you. im gonna try this tonight. if it works, i'll send you nudes

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jlozada24•

DM me any time! I love helping. The world needs more music. Always.

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IzyTarmac•

That’s some really clever advice! Will do this next time. Thanks mate!

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lazarous247•

This is going to be true with most DAWs and VSTs. I can see how you could “share” samples on an external between computers, but Logic’s library includes embedded synths, drummer stuff, etc.

I’m not sure, but I don’t think you can do what you want with Ableton‘ score library either. It, like logic, is tied into the DAW and will need to be installed on both machines.

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InfiniteTreesOP•

ok, so what i was hoping to do was simply have the 60gig Sound library on my EHD, and run logic from both my mac mini and macbook pro (at different times), and be able to use the same one downloaded Sound library for this. it just seems impractical to have to download this TWICE, have BOTH the EXACT SAME libraries on the SAME hard drive, because i can't link logic on my mini + mbp to use the same sound library. you know what i mean?

it's because i want mac mini as my home base, and mbp for when i'm traveling with an EHD.

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lazarous247•

Understand completely. Only way I can think of would be to Carbon Copy Clone one onto the other after you move the library to an external. Will just have to make sure you keep up with the cloning.

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