I've been struggling with my Cakewalk by Bandlab installation on a MS Surface Pro 4 with a small C hard disk drive and have decided to finally install the software right. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any guidance for a best practice installation for locations of folders for programs, add-ons, and data. Here are the resources available to me:
Drive C - 117 GB M.2 Samsung SSD
Drive D - 238 GB SDXC card
Drive E - 1.36 TB USB Seagate
Drive G - 3.63 TB USB Seagate
External drives E and G are spinning drives. I am thinking I should likely be getting an external SSD (USB 3.?) but don't know if it should be dedicated to VST libaries or project files or both. Or if this proposed higher speed SSD drive is even required at all for this software.
Thanks in advance for anyone who is willing to wade in with a suggested approach. - Bob
P.S. BTW, I am a long time Cakewalk (DOS) and Sonar user with earlier add-ons and project files I hope to move into this repurposed laptop. Once I have a clear idea of where folders will be located then I'll figure out how to install Sonar Platinum into a similar file structure before loading CbB.