Advice on an OS...Xp or stick with 98SE?

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I don't run much: a SBL card and a MIDI controller, either a keyboard or a drum (one at a time). If I get any noticeable latency it's because something's obviously wrong- a monitor got turned on somewhere and there's a "loop" going, usually.
 
My main concern is running Sonar's reverb while recording my vocals. I'm particular about being able to hear some reverb while I'm singing and the slight delay really messes up the picture. I guess I'm either gonna have to switch to XP or use an external effects processor. It's too bad because the main reason I upgraded to Sonar from PA9 was for the input monitoring. If it wasn't for the vocal reverb, I probably wouldn't care so much about monitoring Sonar's effects.
 
If you're going to do live input processing, you're always going to have that little delay that messes you up, no matter which OS you're on. In fact, the only good way to do this is to do a scratch mixdown of all your tracks and start a new project just for vocals. That way you can record your vocal track with only one other track playing, and probably be good at < 5ms latency, which you might not really hear (especially when you're talking about reverb...just add the 5ms to your predelay)

Once your track count starts climbing, you're going to have to crank them buffers up, and live input processing becomes much more annoying.

If the alternative solution to this problem is a lame debate over operating systems, then I'd suggest getting an outboard reverb unit.

Slackmaster 2000
 
Thanks, Slack, for setting the record straight. I kinda figured I still would have some latency- even with XP. I'm only running one track now when I record the vocals but I still can't put the latency down to near 5ms without getting dropouts. I don't know if 5 ms would annoy me or not since I'm not able to get that low, but it seems that XP might be worth getting if only for the sake of being able to dual boot- or not needing to.
 
98SE is glorified dogshit. I hate it. It sucks.
2000 or XP, hell, I'll take Linux over 98SE. I'm tired of the headaches.
 
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