I'm utterly confused about installation, and I'm sure it's exacerbated by bits and pieces of IK products that I have in different locations on this machine. I'm hoping that if I lay all that out here, someone can tell me what I should do (what to move where, what to get rid of) to get Syntronik up and running. I apologize for the very long post, but I don't know how else to go about this.
FYI, I have never bought the full license for any version SampleTank. At some point I downloaded Sampletank 3, perhaps to run a single Syntronik instrument -- Memory V -- which is the only instrument that Sampletank shows. (I believe Memory V was a freebie from somewhere.). Strangely, though I had folders for Sampletank 3, I was not able to find the actual app and open it. So I downloaded Sampletank 4, and that does seem to open properly, showing Memory V as the its only instrument. I believe I also installed Syntronik Free at some point.
So here's what I have (drive / name of folder):
C:/Public Documents/IK Multimedia/
- SampleTank 3 (a 1 GB folder which has Arpeggios, Effects Presets, Imported Instruments, Instruments, Library Info, Multis, Samples)
- SampleTank 4 (a 1.7 GB folder which has Effects Presets, Instruments, Library Info, and Samples)
C:/My Documents/IK Multimedia (this contains four folders:
- Authorization Manager
IK Product Manager
SampleTank 4 (has 32 folders and several hundred files)
Syntronik (has a single data base file)
C:/Program Files/IK Multimedia - contains the following folders:
- Arpeggios (empty)
Effects Presets (empty)
IK Product Manager
Instruments (empty)
Multis (empty)
Samples (empty)
Syntronik (contains the Syntronik app, user manual, empty Instrument and Samples folders, and a few other things)
C:/Program Files (x86)/IK Multimedia -- contains an Authorization manager. I assume this is irrelevant anyway, since my DAWs don't use 32-bit plugins.
F:/Syntronik Sound Content contains:
- Arpeggios (empty)
Effects Presets (empty)
Instruments (empty)
Multis(empty)
Samples (empty)
Syntronik folder (which contains the Syntronik app, user manual, empty Instrument and Samples folders, and a few other things.)
IK Product Manager Folder
G:/IK MM downloads
- Custom Shop (contains the Custom Shop app)
Sample Tank 4_1_4 (contains the SampleTank 4 installation app and docs)
G:/IK Multimedia
- Custom Shop (contains the unins00 app and DAT file)
SampleTank 4 (contains ST4 app, manual, and some PAK and DAT files)
G:/Syntronik Sounds
- 27 zip files of the Syntronik content
Effects Presets (empty)
Instruments (empty)
Samples (empty)
G:/Syntronik Sound Content
- Arpeggios (contains an empty Syntronik folder)
Effects Presets (has multiple folders but no files)
Instruments (contains the folder for 53_Syntronik Memory-V - 89 MB, and empty Instruments and Samples folders)
Library Info (contains Syntronik Memory-V pak)
Multis (contains a Syntronik folder, which has Groove, Keyboard, Motion, and Pad folders, all of which have ST3M files in them)
Samples, which has Effects Presets (some folders but no files), Instruments (empty), and Samples (empty)
Syntronik Sound Content, which contains:
- Instruments - a 61 MB folder which contains 53_Syntronik 99 (I may have copied this here)
Library Info (a single PAK file)
Multis (has an empty Syntronik folder)
Samples (contains a 53_Sontronik 99 folder with PAK files, which maybe I copied over to this?)
G:/Syntronik 1.2
- Arpeggios (contains an empty Syntronik folder)
Effects Presets (empty)
Instruments (empty)
Multis (contains an empty Syntronik folder)
Samples (empty)
It’s quite a mess, isn’t it? I know I must seem like an idiot for having duplicate files. F:/Syntronik Sound Content and C:/Program Files/IK Multimedia seem nearly identical. Not to mention G:/Syntronik Sound Content has a folder called Syntronik Sound Content — what?? But I did NOT deliberately create duplicate files. It all happened as I was installing various apps and trying hard NOT to have GBs of content dumped on my C drive. I can also see that IK automatically creates folders, like the apreggios, Effects presets, etc.
I understand that the content for Syntronik has to go in the same folder where SampleTank 3 content is, which in my case is in C:/Public Documents/IK Multimedia/ (Is that right?) But Syntronik is requires 60 GB of hard drive space, so I don’t want to put it on the C drive. My questions boil down to the following:
Can I move the SampleTank 3 content to the G drive?
Should I use the "Install Syntronik Sound Content" app to install the files in the correct folders? If so, should I choose "extract all" first or "run"? And, most importantly, what should the destination path be, exactly?
Thanks for any help!