Gig Performer on Multiple Computers - and that %%%# Kontakt :)

General discussion about Gig Performer
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Well I’ve successfully run GP from my home computer to my MacBook Pro without issue.

I exported all the settings and imported them back to ensure all the MIDI stuff worked. And I copied my OSX Documents\GigPerformer\ folders to the new computer so that all settings carried forward. And I took great pains to ensure that my Kontakt files were in the same named volume on both PCs so that worked as well.

I have one other computer that is the same but the Kontakt stuff is in a different place. This seems to cause GP problems and requires me to tell Kontakt where all the files are (I have done that in the standalone version) and then update after which it seems to load all of the samples. But it doesn’t save it that way. The next time I load GP, I have to go through the same process.

Is there a way to have GP check a different place for the Kontakt files on the one computer or a way to save it so that computer knows to check a different place?

Thanks

MM

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No — Gig Performer doesn’t know anything about the location of Kontakt samples or instruments…that’s all part of Kontakt internal info stored in its state and GP (or indeed any host) can only store or recall that state – it can’t interpret it.

Your choices are

  1. Install Kontakt stuff in exactly the same file location on both machines
  2. If you can’t do that, then create a symbolic link (you’ll have to look up how to do that if you’re not familiar) in the expected location and that points to where Kontakt stuff really lives.
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Here’s a nice article about symbolic links on Mac. Covered are both terminal and GUI approaches (a 3rd party open source tool with GUI): https://www.howtogeek.com/297721/how-to-create-and-use-symbolic-links-aka-symlinks-on-a-mac/

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Have you info for symbolic links for win 10?.
Cheers

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Of course, I wrote about it here: Backup of a Gig project including audio track - #4 by npudar

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Hey thanks man. Cheers

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