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Shane Ross on AVID vs Final Cut Pro

http://www.macvideo.tv/editing/interviews/index.cfm?articleId=101715

The hard drive in the click music studio which had all the sound libraries for the studios virtual plug in instruments stopped working. I managed to install a new drive and re-installed the instrument libraries. This was fairly straight forward but involved slightly different approaches for each of the three plug ins affected by the disk failure. Hopefully to make things easier if this were to happen again here is some information I found on the internet which may help :-

1 Synthogy Ivory

The library for              http://www.synthogy.com/support.html#03

Has the following advice :-

All you need to do is update an alias that needs to point to this folder. The alias is called ‘Ivory Items’, and in OS X it is located in:
/Users/{Home}/Library/Preferences/Ivory Preferences/

Click once on the alias, press Cmd-I for Get Info, click the Select New Original button, and select the Ivory Items folder at the new location. Alternatively, you may simply throw the alias into the trash. The next time you run Ivory, or the Ivory Library Tool, you will be asked for the new location of the Ivory Items folder.

2 Stylus RMX

These instructions are about moving your SAGE folder but essentially the Alias section sets up RMX to work once you’ve re-installed the software.
MAC OSX - MOVING THE SAGE DIRECTORY AFTER INSTALLATION
• Drag or copy the SAGE folder from your installation drive
(For Example: Macintosh HD/Library/Users/user name/Library/Application Support/Spectrasonics) to the hard drive location of your choice.

This can be another drive partition, a secondary internal drive or an external hard drive such as a Firewire or USB2 hard drive, etc.
• Next, hold (Apple key and Option key) on the keyboard, click and drag the SAGE folder to the desktop to create an alias of the folder named SAGE.
• Next, move the SAGE alias from the desktop to Users/user name/Library/Application Support/Spectrasonics

3 Logic EXS24 Sampler

This is quite old advice but it still seems to work …

Organising your samples is very simple and is achieved by creating and naming a number of new folders within your Sampler Instruments folder, each of which will eventually contain one category of samples. You can create as many folders as you like up to the maximum supported by the computer’s operating system. Where sub-categories are needed (for example, for a Strings folder inside your Orchestral folder), you create those in the same way. Then, all that’s left to do is to drag the desired ‘instruments’ out of the Sampler Instruments folder and into the category folders of your choice. Usefully, Mac OS Aliases or Windows Shortcuts relating to other folders can also added to the hierarchy — even the Sampler Instruments folder itself can be an alias leading to an audio folder on a different drive, if that’s something you need to do.

Once you’ve created your folders and moved the relevant sample sets into them, the folders will appear in the sampler patch selection window in place of the usual long list. Select a folder and a menu of its contents drops down, making it much easier to locate sounds. I was a little apprehensive using this at first, because I felt that if I ‘tidied up’ the locations of all my samples, songs I’d already recorded wouldn’t be able to find them. However (and I can only speak for the Mac version) everything worked perfectly.