The Sony I use in the Family room to edit and adding some additional instruments like Mandolin. I am also working on some of the same songs so it will only be a matter of copying his audio tracks once he is done back to the main DAW. He is laying down all his parts ( audio only) to our 65 song 'album'. The Laptop is used for live recording and right now is living at my partners house over the winter. I could now choose to delete the older folder but I usually don't do this until my (250 GB) SSD E drive is passing 60%.

I then copy it to the external, and then copy back to the E drive of the main DAW. I work on the songs and save them into that same folder and when they need to go back to my main DAW I simply Re name the Album folder using current Date'. Note: Now that Album is stored in a minimum of 4 places! When I need to use the laptop I hook up the external drive and I copy over the latest version of the 'Album' that will be worked on. I will date the new Folder, example _ 'Original Songs ' after I copied it over to the BU drives. Īll are backed up to the 3rd (G) drive as well as an External drive whenever possible. Old albums and inactive stuff are kept elsewhere on backup drives. Live Band performance, Backing Tracks, Original Songs, Sock Monkey Album Album folders keep different types of project tidy. Each song ( project) folder is inside an ALBUM folder.

On my main DAW I use a Data Drive (E) to store all my projects. Here's a step by step of how I copy from machine to machine. All run the latest CbB as well as have Splat and various older versions still installed. Then the 3rd laptop is a 2008 duo core Sony with only 1 SATA drive which I use differently. It is worth noting that most all VST's like Melodyne and AD2 allow for 2 machines. Both have all the same VST's and are fully licenced so projects all run smoothly on both of these machines.

Then an i5 Laptop which has 2 drives same set up but no back up drive. Main DAW is a typical i7 It has 3 Drives. Make sure you date the containment folder. I've been working between 2 or 3 machines for years now and have never had any issues.Īs I said all your projects should be stored in a main folder and then that folder should have been backed up to an external drive for safe keeping. You just transfer the whole project folder(s) which should all be on a portable back up drive anyways. Bundle is not the way most of use would do this.

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