While I was digging around in my Arturia plugins directory, I noticed “Third Party” so I went and had a look. This is full of nksf files for Native Instruments. I don’t have any Native Instruments software or hardware, and have no use for these files. They actually take up over 3GB of space for V Collection 11.
Two things:
- Are these actually required by V Collection to function, if I am not using Native Instruments software or hardware? Caveat: If perhaps one day I choose to use NI software or hardware, that is on me to make sure I have the files installed.
- Note to Arturia: Give us the option to not install things we don’t need.
3GB may not seem like a lot of space, but on a MacBook it’s space I can use for other things.
Size of directories (Pigments and Synclavier are egregious):
| 34M|Acid V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 16M|ARP 2600 V3/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 69M|Augmented BRASS/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 71M|Augmented GRAND PIANO/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 37M|Augmented MALLETS/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|122M|Augmented STRINGS/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|131M|Augmented VOICES/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 73M|Augmented WOODWINDS/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 54M|Augmented YANGTZE/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|7.6M|B-3 V2/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 40M|Buchla Easel V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|6.7M|Clavinet V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|173M|CMI V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|7.4M|CP-70 V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 39M|CS-80 V4/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 96M|CZ V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|104M|DX7 V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 54M|Emulator II V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|2.4M|Farfisa V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 23M|Jun-6 V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 72M|Jup-8 V4/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 43M|Jup-8000 V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 43M|KORG MS-20 V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 73M|Matrix-12 V2/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|9.1M|Mellotron V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 58M|Memory V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 33M|Mini V4/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 31M|MiniBrute V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 82M|MiniFreak V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 23M|Modular V3/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|105M|OP-Xa V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|6.1M|Piano V3/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|441M|Pigments/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 21M|Prophet-5 V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 53M|Prophet-VS V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 48M|Pure LoFi/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 15M|SEM V2/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 26M|SEM V3/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|1.8M|Solina V2/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 35M|SQ80 V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|8.4M|Stage-73 V2/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|630M|Synclavier V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 35M|Synthi V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 86M|Synthx V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
| 52M|Vocoder V/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|2.3M|VOX Continental V2/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|6.5M|Wurli V3/Third Party/Native Instruments/presets|
|3.1G|total|