Sunday, 30 August 2020

Logic Pros: Relocating and organizing your Sound Library in LPX 10.5

Today we are taking a look at how to relocate the Logic Pro Sound Library and keep all of the new content organized. Along with the massive Logic Pro X update back in May came over 2,500 new loops, 70 Drum Machine Designer kits, and more — expanding the free bundled Logic Pro Sound Library significantly. While we have explored content storage solutions and customizing your plug-in library in the past, it’s time for some sound content housekeeping. Whether you forgot about the 70+ GB of free content hogging precious internal storage space, or are just trying to get your new Logic Pro X setup organized properly, taking a look at the Sound Library Manager and understanding how Logic can quickly relocate the stock sound content can be particularly convenient. 

For professionals with massive external sound and sample libraries, moving the Logic Sound Library to a drive of choice is a must, but it can also be quite handy for just about anyone with limited internal storage. And there is one thing to quickly point out here for new users before we move on as well. Just as Apple suggests, you’ll want to download the “Essential Content” portion of the built-in Logic Pro Sound Library to the default system drive location when installing Logic Pro X for the first time. Thereafter, you can move just the lighter Essential Content aspect of the entire Sound Library to a custom-selected external drive or storage location. And whether you updated to Logic Pro X 10.5 earlier this year or are just installing it for the first time, LPX will automatically remember your custom location when you download additional Sound Library content in the future. 

Quick Note: The Sound Library contains all the sounds for the software instruments included with Logic Pro and MainStage. Relocating the Sound Library moves it for both apps. Apple Loops, Impulse Responses, and third-party content is not included when moving or relocating the sounds. 

How to move the Logic Pro Sound Library:

The Sound Library can be moved from within Logic Pro X to an external storage device like a USB-C external drive, Thunderbolt drive, and others. I’ve been quite happy with the performance and portability of the G-Technology G-DRIVE mobile SSD, which starts from $110 on the 500GB. Colleagues and collaborators of ours also like the comparable SanDisk models from $108 as well as the Samsung T5. But you can still get away with much more affordable HDD USB-3.0+ options if you’re not getting into overly demanding third-party gear and multi-layered string libraries etc. Although these days it does seems like better performance and lesser capacity for a more concentrated library of sound content is the way to go for us. Let us know in the comments below which storage options are working best for you.

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