How to avoid Tracktion to save to C:\?

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Goofy newbie on Tracktion playground, just bought it.

Is there a way to set Tracktion 2.0.1.2. to avoid using C:\ for saving audio tracks while recording? It makes a mess when it's time for defragmenting, and I have three separate physical drives available for that purpose...

Besides, if the recording goes in there before I save it elsewhere (by exporting an audio file), what use is there for the TEMP directory you specify in the SETTINGS/MISCELLANEOUS?

Can't find any hint on documentation, maybe some here have experience. Any help will be appreciated.

[freeztar]

Besides, if the recording goes in there before I save it elsewhere (by exporting an audio file), what use is there for the TEMP directory you specify in the SETTINGS/MISCELLANEOUS?

Welcome to KvR! You will get much better responses to Tracktion specific questions if you post in the Raw Materials Software forum.

Your question puzzles me? What do you mean by "if the recording goes in there"? Did you change the temp folder to another drive?

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Freeztar,
thanks for yr. feedback.

The temp folder's been set to an external drive, not C:\ but E:\ in this case (which is an NTFS partition of C:\ created from within Windows XP) as external is the drive G:\ where the projects folders have been created (in this case, an external FireWire/SATA disk).

No matter the settings, the audio feed always ends up as a .wav, 2.wav, 3.wav and so on on C:\ (root) directory during the recording, regardless of the TEMP settings on E:\, and of the fact that the whole project sits on a further drive, G:\, into a dedicated directory.

Any idea why the TEMP setting seems to have no effect?
Thanks,

Daniele

Which is tricky, 'cause I have a very small C:\ partition with only the OS and the applications, then other partition/drives for audio storage only, in order to have the ability to defragment audio any time I need.

[pHz]

(moved from hardware etc to raw material software)

[Beno]

The record path is set per audio input. Not sure why it got changed from the default but it should be putting audio in the project folder. To return to that operation, go to your settings tab and select your input, in the properties area you should see a field called file name, below it is a button saying reset filename. This will revert the filename path back to the default. Notice the syntax for that field if you want to make any tweaks but the key is to leave "%projectdir%/

[sounds.good]

Beno, thanks for the input.

Went there, seen it, done it, worked fine for this project, but new projects presented the same problem again.

When it comes to the worst... I un-installed and re-installed Tracktion. Now works fine, any project.

Just a curiosity: can it be that Tracktion installation process saves a setting with system drives along its preferences?

'Cause the only glitch I can try to focus is, when I installed Tracktion originally the external drives and extra partitions weren't there, only thing that changed I can figure out to spot the problem.

I'm maybe the only Tracktion user who completely ignores what its MIDI and sampler functions are, maybe the only one who uses it just for audio purposes, but I find it brilliant.

Anyway, problem solved. Thanks again.

[chico.co.uk]

I'm maybe the only Tracktion user who completely ignores what its MIDI and sampler functions are, maybe the only one who uses it just for audio purposes

Doubt it ... there's Lunch for a start ...

[lharless]

i used T1 specifically for recording audio onto my hdd for a while, but switched back to cubase after the upgrade to T2 was released. i also edited multitrack recordings inside of T1. for audio, you can't beat the layout of the software for the most pleasant working environment.

I wish i could get my problems sorted out with T2 so that i could get back to using it.