I’m at the gym now... after you create a sparse bundle you copy or move the samples inside it. It will grow big ... gigabytes - you can limit the maximum size when you create the drive. Then when you lod the samples in a sampler they wikl be referenced for example at /Volumes/SampleDrive001/Beatport/House Vol.1/Kicks/kick01.wavpadillac wrote:How do you do that? I'm on OS X. Here's what I did:EvilDragon wrote:Yes but sircuit there doesn't seem like a newbie, because he has all his sample folders across various local drives merged in a virtual drive/sparse bundle, so this helps in certain situations (which he also mentions - replacing drives but keeping paths the same, etc.).otristan wrote:Scanning the entire drive sounds like the best way for newbie to make mistake to me but you can add as many folder as you want.
* create a sparse bundle
* alias a folder into the sparse bundle
That let me see the samples no problem, but programs that referenced the samples expanded the alias to get the original file path. I tried it with a Finder alias and a terminal symlink (ln -s).
I would really love to do what I think you're saying... so hopefully you can share some info on how to accomplish it.
Using virtual drives you never have to embed samples into projects, they all refer to the same location regardless the mac they run on.