bluesplayer

Wookie , Thanks, I appreciate the more useful answer. As I said, I expect small pieces are/will probably be required to be placed in the C:/users/username/appdata/local (or maybe roaming directory—depending on the programmers) But as I suspected, I just tried the installer. Yes, I should have simply done that last night and not even bothered with this post. But it took all of 10 seconds to find out the ONLY place the installer lets you install is the "C:\Programs\whatever..." folder. So that's a bust as far as I'm concerned. Thanks again Wookie. Sock Monkey, Thank you for sharing your ever-so-insightful mindset. Your reply reminds me of the old Sonar forums, which I left after one too many "helpful" posts like yours.

Am I going to be able to install (95-100%) of the new Sonar on a drive other than my boot (C:) drive? If yes then I'm back on-board with the new Sonar, if not then thanks but no thanks. That would just be more of the same lazy install design mentality that the CW team started back about the time of Sonar XL and Windows XP. ------------------ Back in the day, I dropped Sonar Platinum (that I still use - but I have moved on to other DAWS as well) and its "lifetime" subscription, or whatever it was called back then, just about nin months or so before Gibson dropped CW/SONAR and left it orphaned. I dropped supporting Sonar back then for one simple reason: Sonar was the messiest program to install of ANY SW then or since. I install all my DAW SW, sound libraries, MIDI rack gear editors, and 99% of music related SW, as well as my statistical SW, numerical analyses SW, games, etc. on non-boot drives. I have six 8 TB drives not counting a 2 TB SSD boot drive - I try to keep a very clean, very lean boot drive. A boot drive is NOT for DAW's or sound libraries or other crap. By the time I dropped Sonar it was placing files everywhere on the C drive even when directed to install on my D:\ drive. I hated dropping Sonar because I had to started with Twelve Tones systems and Cakewalk back with CW V2 for DOS and I bought EVERY upgrade and add-on until, like I said, about 9 months prior to the Gibson debacle - because of the ever-increasing mess left all over my c drive. I got tired of cleaning the mess it made. I did not, and still DO NOT, want the bulk of Sonar installed on my C drive. I'd be very happy to come back and give the NEW Sonar a try but only if I have majority control over where it is installed - without resorting to tricks like using symbolic links. I get that some minor files might have to be put on the C:/Programs directory but 95+% needs to be placed on one of my non-boot drives. Thanks

Bob's right (assuming the VSTi's are in a path searched by CbB ) that's where my version of Synth Master 2.9 and Sythmaster One were found

Putting little toe back in just to see how it goes