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Beriax · Post by **Beriax** » Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:03 pm

rainguitar wrote: Wed Feb 06, 2019 1:42 pm I purchased the Max edition and I keep wondering how long it will take to download 250 GB. A full day perhaps? My computer has an internal SSD drive and to this point, I've put all my sample libraries on it. But SampleTank 4 Max, because of its size, will have to go onto my slower external HD. Additional time onto the slower drive? Should be an exercise anyway.

Why didn't you buy the edition with the usb drive included?

rainguitar · Post by **rainguitar** » Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:17 pm

I have a laptop with two USB ports. This forces me to use hubs to connect all my gear to the computer. At the moment I have 2 external HDs, a midi keyboard, another midi device, an Apogee duet and a printer plugged in. The system is stable but it has not always been so. Adding another device does not seem prudent. Hence the decision to download SampleTank 4 max to one of my external HDs.

SLiC · Post by **SLiC** » Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:35 pm

AFAIK it doesn't run from the USB, its just delivered on the USB, you copy it from the USB to your hard drive (its faster + you have a back up + its free!)

zzz00m · Post by **zzz00m** » Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:40 pm

rainguitar wrote: Wed Feb 06, 2019 1:42 pm My computer has an internal SSD drive and to this point, I've put all my sample libraries on it. But SampleTank 4 Max, because of its size, will have to go onto my slower external HD. Additional time onto the slower drive?

I would get another internal drive if possible, even a standard SATA HDD would be better than a USB external drive for samples. The external drives are typically slower drives, but fine for backing up your samples.

I'm not sure how an external drive would affect the new sample streaming feature in ST4.

The sequential read disk benchmarks for my 3 drives are:
SSD - 282 MB/s (my system drive)
SATA HDD - 165 MB/s (my current sample drive)
USB3 - 106 MB/s (my backup drive)

Peter - IK Multimedia · Thu Feb 07, 2019 5:39 pm

rainguitar wrote: Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:17 pm I have a laptop with two USB ports. This forces me to use hubs to connect all my gear to the computer. At the moment I have 2 external HDs, a midi keyboard, another midi device, an Apogee duet and a printer plugged in. The system is stable but it has not always been so. Adding another device does not seem prudent. Hence the decision to download SampleTank 4 max to one of my external HDs.

The USB stick is to transport the sound libraries but they should be installed on another hard drive as it is not recommended to use the USB stick to house/run the library content.

Beriax · Post by **Beriax** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 9:51 pm

How does miroslav philharmonik 2 compare to sample tank 4?

zzz00m · Post by **zzz00m** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:08 pm

Miroslav is intended to be a dedicated orchestral instrument.

SampleTank is a little bit of everything, including some orchestra instruments. Unless your specialty is orchestral work, you will probably find a much broader sound palette in SampleTank. If you already have Miroslav, you will be able to include that library in the ST4 interface for the best of both.

I intend to use both my Miroslav 2 CE and my Syntronik libraries with ST4.

chili beans · Post by **chili beans** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:23 pm

Peter - IK Multimedia wrote: Thu Feb 07, 2019 5:39 pm
rainguitar wrote: Wed Feb 06, 2019 2:17 pm I have a laptop with two USB ports. This forces me to use hubs to connect all my gear to the computer. At the moment I have 2 external HDs, a midi keyboard, another midi device, an Apogee duet and a printer plugged in. The system is stable but it has not always been so. Adding another device does not seem prudent. Hence the decision to download SampleTank 4 max to one of my external HDs.
The USB stick is to transport the sound libraries but they should be installed on another hard drive as it is not recommended to use the USB stick to house/run the library content.

I didnt even know they made 250gb thumb drives. Does IK make there own?

Peter - IK Multimedia · Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:46 pm

chili beans wrote: Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:23 pm I didnt even know they made 250gb thumb drives. Does IK make there own?

They do make 256GB thumb drives for sure, and no we don't make those. Don't give anybody here any more ideas!!

zzz00m · Post by **zzz00m** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:49 pm

chili beans wrote: Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:23 pm I didnt even know they made 250gb thumb drives.

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-25 ... B00YFI1A66
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/pny-elite- ... Id=6236000
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product. ... 6820147700

Peter - IK Multimedia · Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:52 pm

Ah and there will also be compression so I'm not sure exactly what size will be used.

rainguitar · Post by **rainguitar** » Sat Feb 09, 2019 5:03 am

A quick question. I've paid for the download edition. Is there an extra charge to get it on a USB drive?

latorrejc3 · Post by **latorrejc3** » Sat Feb 09, 2019 5:36 pm

Peter - IK Multimedia wrote: Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:52 pm Ah and there will also be compression so I'm not sure exactly what size will be used.

Does this mean that the size on disc will be compressed? so no 70gb but something like 50?

Peter - IK Multimedia · Sat Feb 09, 2019 7:15 pm

latorrejc3 wrote: Sat Feb 09, 2019 5:36 pm
Peter - IK Multimedia wrote: Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:52 pm Ah and there will also be compression so I'm not sure exactly what size will be used.
Does this mean that the size on disc will be compressed? so no 70gb but something like 50?

The size on the USB stick is what I was talking about (the installation files)

Peter - IK Multimedia · Sat Feb 09, 2019 7:16 pm

rainguitar wrote: Sat Feb 09, 2019 5:03 am A quick question. I've paid for the download edition. Is there an extra charge to get it on a USB drive?

They are the same price (except for shipping for the physical USB version). If you contact IK Sales/Service via http://www.ikmultimedia.com/contact-support you may be able to change your order if you wish.

SampleTank 4 on the way