PC upgrade - a diary
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Fortunately I'm a very recent adopter so I don't have much from NI - but my user experience to date hasn't been exactly thrilling.
It's much the same with Waves actually...
I'll be picking that lot up tomorrow. I have warned the better half to expect much swearing.
It's much the same with Waves actually...
I'll be picking that lot up tomorrow. I have warned the better half to expect much swearing.
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Fortunately I'm a very recent adopter so I don't have much from NI - but my user experience to date hasn't been exactly thrilling.
NI used to be dreadful but now their Native Access has made it a much simpler affair. I presume it’s the same on Windows as I’m a Mac user. I’ll get my coat then, (Fast Show reference).

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blinddrew wrote:Well, after about three hours last night we're roughly halfway through.
Only six hours for this mammoth transfer?
Wow!!!!!!!
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I've not done any content transfer yet! This is just programmes and licenses.
Anyway, it's all clearer than trying to make sense of Amazon's new music downloader/malware thing. I have sworn at that a lot tonight.
Anyway, it's all clearer than trying to make sense of Amazon's new music downloader/malware thing. I have sworn at that a lot tonight.
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Jam Origin sorted, another speedy response from them. 
Native instruments now.
Ho hum.
The instructions say to go to the 'Manage Devices' page and deactivate on the old machine etc. etc.
Except those instructions are for pre-Native Access installations.
So I've downloaded Native Access on the new machine and got both machines running and NA open. I'm just trying a straight install in the hope that it will prompt me for some kind of activate/deactivate instructions.

Native instruments now.
Ho hum.
The instructions say to go to the 'Manage Devices' page and deactivate on the old machine etc. etc.
Except those instructions are for pre-Native Access installations.

So I've downloaded Native Access on the new machine and got both machines running and NA open. I'm just trying a straight install in the hope that it will prompt me for some kind of activate/deactivate instructions.
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Ah. Ahem.
I apologise sincerely to Native Instruments and in the future I shall make sure I am reading the correct line on the spreadsheet.

I apologise sincerely to Native Instruments and in the future I shall make sure I am reading the correct line on the spreadsheet.

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Hmmm. I appear to be running into a problem with Spitfire not wanting me to put the sample libraries where I want to put them.
Uninstalling and starting again on this one.
Uninstalling and starting again on this one.
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Well, I may have been halfway through the list in three hours, but the other half took ten hours yesterday.
Still, it did give me plenty of time to sit and play guitar along to my new CDs whilst things downloaded and uploaded and validated and made a quick return journey to Mars etc.
Now to work through everything on the new machine and catch any downloads I've missed.
Still, it did give me plenty of time to sit and play guitar along to my new CDs whilst things downloaded and uploaded and validated and made a quick return journey to Mars etc.

Now to work through everything on the new machine and catch any downloads I've missed.
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Having some fun with Izotope. Trying to authorize there is a tickbox for 'Use iLok authorisation', that being what I use I have ticked it.
Which then gives me an error message "Your serial number for does (sic) not support iLok authorisation or is already authorised with an iLok. Please use the Challenge/Response method of contact Technical Support for assistance."
Well, I'm sure that whoever wrote that knew what the Challenge/Response method is but I'm bolloxed if I can see anything with that kind of wording anywhere on the either the plugin, the izotope webpage or on the ilok page.
Turns out unticking the 'Use iLok authorisation' is the way to authorise it with iLok.
Which then gives me an error message "Your serial number for does (sic) not support iLok authorisation or is already authorised with an iLok. Please use the Challenge/Response method of contact Technical Support for assistance."
Well, I'm sure that whoever wrote that knew what the Challenge/Response method is but I'm bolloxed if I can see anything with that kind of wording anywhere on the either the plugin, the izotope webpage or on the ilok page.
Turns out unticking the 'Use iLok authorisation' is the way to authorise it with iLok.

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Ok, add about three hours on today and I think we're done.
Including all my awkward control surface set-ups with Reaper. I was expecting this to be harder work but by having a OneDrive folder open on both machines I was able to pick up all the set-up files and templates and just drag them up and down one folder at a time and it all seems to have worked.
I mean, it should work like that, but I'm always a bit surprised that it does.
I have just identified one awkward little fly in the works though. My new computer doesn't have a card-reader - so I'm not quite sure how I'm going to get stuff off the ROdecaster for work, but hopefully it will just work as remote drive when it's not being an AI?
I guess I'll find out tomorrow.
Aside from that I think we're there.
Now I just need to back up all my files on the old machine and then work out which ones to archive and which ones to move to the new machine.
But for this thread, I think I'll leave it there unless I run into any further hitches.
Including all my awkward control surface set-ups with Reaper. I was expecting this to be harder work but by having a OneDrive folder open on both machines I was able to pick up all the set-up files and templates and just drag them up and down one folder at a time and it all seems to have worked.
I mean, it should work like that, but I'm always a bit surprised that it does.
I have just identified one awkward little fly in the works though. My new computer doesn't have a card-reader - so I'm not quite sure how I'm going to get stuff off the ROdecaster for work, but hopefully it will just work as remote drive when it's not being an AI?
I guess I'll find out tomorrow.
Aside from that I think we're there.
Now I just need to back up all my files on the old machine and then work out which ones to archive and which ones to move to the new machine.
But for this thread, I think I'll leave it there unless I run into any further hitches.

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Congratulations on a successful move! I hope your new machine lasts as long as the old. There’s no reason why not these days.
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Cheers Richard, here's hoping; the last one did stirling service.
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As it came from Scan I suspect your new PC will have a long and happy life like the previous one 
Well done Drew!
Do we open a bottle of champagne in its honour now?
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Well done Drew!

Do we open a bottle of champagne in its honour now?
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Give me a couple of days to transfer everything across and we can do it at the SOS meet on wednesday. 

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Hmmm.
Well, all is not completely well in newPCland.
One plugin refuses to play ball, sadly it's not a gratuitous freebie compressor, it's my piano instrument; SoniVox EightyEight. I have tried a number of approaches now and Reaper just won't find it as an instrument and the authenticator file does nothing. I'm at a loss on that one so waiting on a response from Sonivox support.
The other interesting thing is the C:drive is very noisy, which is a bit weird because it's SSD, I thought that it'd be pretty much silent.
Well, all is not completely well in newPCland.
One plugin refuses to play ball, sadly it's not a gratuitous freebie compressor, it's my piano instrument; SoniVox EightyEight. I have tried a number of approaches now and Reaper just won't find it as an instrument and the authenticator file does nothing. I'm at a loss on that one so waiting on a response from Sonivox support.
The other interesting thing is the C:drive is very noisy, which is a bit weird because it's SSD, I thought that it'd be pretty much silent.
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blinddrew wrote:The other interesting thing is the C:drive is very noisy, which is a bit weird because it's SSD, I thought that it'd be pretty much silent.
That's odd, I'm pretty certain they are silent. It wouldn't be a hybrid drive or whatever they were called?
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Says it's an SSD?
On the positive side, following the age old tradition of trying the same thing 'just one more time', EightyEight is now working.
On the positive side, following the age old tradition of trying the same thing 'just one more time', EightyEight is now working.

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I have had PCs with Crucial & Sandisk SSDs. Totally silent & lighter than a guitar string winder. Just ICs inside, no moving parts.
If you put your finger on the case can you feel a vibration that is not fan related ? is the part number visible ?
My M.2 SSD that plugs into the motherboard is just an exposed PCB with chips on it.
Faster than a main SSD drive and favoured for streaming of mega sample libraries.
If you put your finger on the case can you feel a vibration that is not fan related ? is the part number visible ?
My M.2 SSD that plugs into the motherboard is just an exposed PCB with chips on it.
Faster than a main SSD drive and favoured for streaming of mega sample libraries.
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wireman wrote:What did your configuration say?
You may have an M.2 SSD for your C drive (which is physically small and plugs into a slot on the motherboard) along with a separate hard disk.
Yep, this is the set-up.
I'll try and grab a video of it next time.
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I have isolated the noise source. I've added a card reader in the empty front slot (I didn't realise modern machines didn't have them as standard!) but it only attaches on one side. When the fan kicks in it's vibrating, a bit of finger pressure silences it so I shall find a suitable wedge material and sort that out.
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It's always rewarding to cure a studio rattle Drew - well done in anticipation! 
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