I'm on T6 and still new to DAWs. On one piece of music I'm working on, I'm dragging and
dropping audio loops from my desktop to the studio tracks. When I later take those desktop loops and put them in a folder on my desktop, I'm losing the audio on my tracks ( tracks now say "no file found"). I believe that is because when I'm dropping the loops on my tracks I'm not saying "yes" to copy file to folder, correct? Or should I be doing something else?
On another project in T6, I'm finding that when I neatly file VST plugin instruments info into folders on my desktop, the VST plugin instrument no longer works in my project. Do I need to get these 3rd party VST plugins into the project folder also? If so, how do I do that?
Or is there something else I need to do. Thanks so much.
filing audio loops and VST plugin data into desktop folders
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- KVRian
- 524 posts since 16 Mar, 2017
It is important to get your files organized BEFORE you use them in a project.
The DAW is tracking the files by their path on the disk. When you move the files the path changes and the DAW doesn't know where to find them any longer.
This is not unique to the Tracktion DAWs - most of them behave that way. Professional video editing and compositing software works like that as well.
What do you mean by "plugin instruments info"? I would imagine the plugins are looking for their files (presets and the like) to be in specific places and if you move them they break (or at least those features stop working).
If you are using soundfonts or other similar instruments downloaded separately from the plugins you are working with, then you are probably running into the same issue as with the audio files as I described above - the plugin is remembering where to find the files on the disk, so when you move them, it can't find them any longer. Get them organized BEFORE you use them.
The DAW is tracking the files by their path on the disk. When you move the files the path changes and the DAW doesn't know where to find them any longer.
This is not unique to the Tracktion DAWs - most of them behave that way. Professional video editing and compositing software works like that as well.
What do you mean by "plugin instruments info"? I would imagine the plugins are looking for their files (presets and the like) to be in specific places and if you move them they break (or at least those features stop working).
If you are using soundfonts or other similar instruments downloaded separately from the plugins you are working with, then you are probably running into the same issue as with the audio files as I described above - the plugin is remembering where to find the files on the disk, so when you move them, it can't find them any longer. Get them organized BEFORE you use them.