After six great years of rock-solid performance, I finally decided that it was time to upgrade my Athlon-based DAW:
- ASUS Crosshair IV Formula AM3 motherboard
- AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 3.3GHz 6 core CPU
- Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 PC1600 SDRAM
- 2 Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB SATA III MLC drives in RAID0 config
- PCI-424 w/2 MOTU 2408s (1 MK1, 1 MK2)
- TASCAM DM24 board
I had planned on sticking with XP since I know it well and that's what the drivers for my parallel version MOTU MIDI Express XT support, so I also purchased a PCI parallel card and -- nothing (well, if you don't count the blue screens).
So, I purchased a USB MOTU MIDI Timepiece AV, which also have drivers for XP and Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit). Now I have an opportunity to update to Windows 7 as well, and after posting a similar query in the "Computer Setup and System Configuration" forum, I got two responses: One says stick with XP and the other says go with Win7.
Since I use Cantabile mainly, I thought I could ask the same question in here -- which is better? If Win7/64 is a strong recommendation, what are the pitfalls/gotchas? Obviously, a big bump in memory is in order here, but if anyone has some good advice, I'll take it.
One other thing -- boot times... I have XP booting and ready to play in about 20 seconds. How's that on Win7?
Thanks in advance,
64-bit windows experience with Cantabile
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- KVRian
- 581 posts since 30 Nov, 2008 from Denver CO USA
modified XP 64 on an SSD and it's screaming fast
A minor scale is a major scale starting 3 half steps down from the major and visa versa. Any Chord has as many versions as it has notes.
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- KVRian
- 581 posts since 30 Nov, 2008 from Denver CO USA
I used nLite and an ini from a thread over at reaper Cokos brought it up to date by placing Seraphs post XP64 sp2 in addons and hot fixes and added drivers for my setup including mobo video AHCI and all others needed. plugged my dvd into the drive expoert port inorder to get the intel AHCI drivers loaded and installed. I'm using a timepieace aswell but I'm using a lynx AES 16e card
A minor scale is a major scale starting 3 half steps down from the major and visa versa. Any Chord has as many versions as it has notes.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 69 posts since 2 Sep, 2006
Okay, so I broke down and purchased Windows 7 Ultimate, and installed the 64bit version. The setup for the RAID driver was a bit of an adventure, but I eventually worked through that.
Purchased jBridge for use in Cantabile and it works flawlessly. The MOTU Midi Timepiece/AV is a great MIDI interface with many more features than just 8 ins and outs -- highly recommended.
I've managed to pare down the services to what I think is the bare minimum for running a DAW (other than the User Access Control -- but I'll work through that soon). I've had it running Cantabile for a few hours looping a MIDI playback of some quick junk from a 32-bit VSTi via jBridge, and am letting this run for most of the day as a test of how well the unit performs under stress conditions, and only made it crash when I added a 64-bit VSTi and cycling through programs while playing. In any event, it's still running the loop with on jBridged VSTi and one 64-bit VSTi.
So far, it seems to be working rather well. Now if someone would develop a VSTi like Fruity Loop's "MIDI OUT", I'd be in great shape...
Purchased jBridge for use in Cantabile and it works flawlessly. The MOTU Midi Timepiece/AV is a great MIDI interface with many more features than just 8 ins and outs -- highly recommended.
I've managed to pare down the services to what I think is the bare minimum for running a DAW (other than the User Access Control -- but I'll work through that soon). I've had it running Cantabile for a few hours looping a MIDI playback of some quick junk from a 32-bit VSTi via jBridge, and am letting this run for most of the day as a test of how well the unit performs under stress conditions, and only made it crash when I added a 64-bit VSTi and cycling through programs while playing. In any event, it's still running the loop with on jBridged VSTi and one 64-bit VSTi.
So far, it seems to be working rather well. Now if someone would develop a VSTi like Fruity Loop's "MIDI OUT", I'd be in great shape...