As an user of this amazing software would like to give an small suggestion to the developers.
the idea of the instrument browser is pretty nice but has a really crazy implementation mistake:
1.- biotek2 send you by default to an oscure hidden folder to install the instruments. this is very bad for backups and quick find in windows browser.
2.- when you try to save a new instrument created for yourself you cannot save it in a folder of your choice, because the next time you launch biotek 2 the instrument will be banished no matter you select the private and public folders in the config screen. It only works if you save it in this oscure hidden folder the program selects.
please take in consideration, because this is important for backups because a lot of us use a diferent partition or disk for the samples and instruments than C:
thank you.
Biotek2 and Collective instruments folder and browser
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35503 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Suggestion : learn to use whatever species of symbolic links your OS uses.
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/c ... -or-linux/
Its one of those things that can make your life a whole lot easier.
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/c ... -or-linux/
Its one of those things that can make your life a whole lot easier.
An idiot on Set Theory:
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 17 posts since 16 May, 2007
yes I used this years ago for steam games, thank you for the suggestion.whyterabbyt wrote:Suggestion : learn to use whatever species of symbolic links your OS uses.
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/c ... -or-linux/
Its one of those things that can make your life a whole lot easier.
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Wolfram Franke Wolfram Franke https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=222340
- KVRist
- 79 posts since 25 Dec, 2009 from Germany
Hi jose27mad,
BioTek 2 uses the default instrument, sound and sample locations as described in the documentation. Those are the recommended locations by the various OS manufacturers (except for Linux where there is no real recommended location, as far as I know). You can always get to these locations quickly by clicking on the respective "Reveal ..." button in BioTek 2 (or Collective).
However, in BioTek 2, you can change the directories where to load factory sounds from and load/save your own sounds from/to in the global menu. It allows you to set six different paths for the instruments, sounds and samples of both the preset and the user library. You certainly have to make sure that you also move the respective files to these new locations, otherwise you will be presented with empty browsers or the instruments won't sound correctly if their samples can't be found.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Wolfram
BioTek 2 uses the default instrument, sound and sample locations as described in the documentation. Those are the recommended locations by the various OS manufacturers (except for Linux where there is no real recommended location, as far as I know). You can always get to these locations quickly by clicking on the respective "Reveal ..." button in BioTek 2 (or Collective).
However, in BioTek 2, you can change the directories where to load factory sounds from and load/save your own sounds from/to in the global menu. It allows you to set six different paths for the instruments, sounds and samples of both the preset and the user library. You certainly have to make sure that you also move the respective files to these new locations, otherwise you will be presented with empty browsers or the instruments won't sound correctly if their samples can't be found.
Hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Wolfram