Delete Extended samples?

[E Jones]

I just installed my first VI module--Solo Strings and I'm slowly learning to use it. I did not purchase the extended library and do not intend to since the standard level satisfies my needs. Sine I plan to purchase other instruments shortly, I would like to save disk space by deleting the extended material. Can I do this without messing things up? Is there a built in function that will do this for me? Since I'm pretty new at this I don't want to delete material that the standard level requires.

Any help would be appreciated.

E. Jones

[Christian Marcussen]

As far as I know/recall it's not possible.

[mattdean]

I was told by VSL that it is definitely not possible. They must stay on your hardrive.

[E Jones]

This is rather astounding! If I purchase three more modules (which I plan to do) I could end up with 100 gigs of material I don't need or use. I hope this situation is remedied soon, I don't want to have to purchase another firewire drive just to store samples I don't use.

E Jones

[cm]

welcome E Jones,
the reason because extended samples cannot be removed without screwing up the instruments must be found in the highly optimized player engine. you can picture the monolitic file holding the samples as an interwoven structure and since patches from the extended libraries of course need also samples from the standard libraries you cannot *drop* single regions of this file(s).
without having designed that way you couldn't checkout the extended libraries for a demo-period and enable them (even single instruments if you wish) somewhen without having to re-install everything.
christian