Hello! First post!
Kind of a long story, but I'll just hit the highlights.
Started making a home studio. I have a Presonus Firebox and a midi controller which has no bearing on this story btw.
I wanted to get a computer to use solely as a music set up, so I bought a pc with vista on it. I also bought Sonar 8 Producer for a daw. Well, I spent a week on trying to get the audio interface to work...with no luck. The computer was sort of an impulse buy...if I had researched it, I would'nt have bought one with Vista on it. I have no problem using the interface with my lap top which has XP media edition on it, but it is my everyday computer and I don't want to start getting things mixed up.
So, I eventually took the computer back and bought an Imac and figured that I could just use Bootcamp with it to run the Daw (I also bought a copy of XP Home and downloaded all the updates). Now, the computer isn't loading the interface again...it sees it, but the light stays red (when it's supposed to turn blue when the unit and the computer is synced).
Funny thing is, is that when I just hooked up my interface while running in Mac OS, I didn't have to install any drivers...it just worked.
I'm at my wits end; I'm contemplating just buying Logic, but I can't figure out a way to justify eating the $500 that I spent on Sonar. I spent some time and effort on presonus' website and tried a few things to get the bootcamp to work, with no luck. And in reality, I really like how the Imac is behaving...it's super stable, even if I don't know how to do much with it yet (it's my first Mac).
What would you all do?
Kind of a long story, but I'll just hit the highlights.
Started making a home studio. I have a Presonus Firebox and a midi controller which has no bearing on this story btw.
I wanted to get a computer to use solely as a music set up, so I bought a pc with vista on it. I also bought Sonar 8 Producer for a daw. Well, I spent a week on trying to get the audio interface to work...with no luck. The computer was sort of an impulse buy...if I had researched it, I would'nt have bought one with Vista on it. I have no problem using the interface with my lap top which has XP media edition on it, but it is my everyday computer and I don't want to start getting things mixed up.
So, I eventually took the computer back and bought an Imac and figured that I could just use Bootcamp with it to run the Daw (I also bought a copy of XP Home and downloaded all the updates). Now, the computer isn't loading the interface again...it sees it, but the light stays red (when it's supposed to turn blue when the unit and the computer is synced).
Funny thing is, is that when I just hooked up my interface while running in Mac OS, I didn't have to install any drivers...it just worked.
I'm at my wits end; I'm contemplating just buying Logic, but I can't figure out a way to justify eating the $500 that I spent on Sonar. I spent some time and effort on presonus' website and tried a few things to get the bootcamp to work, with no luck. And in reality, I really like how the Imac is behaving...it's super stable, even if I don't know how to do much with it yet (it's my first Mac).
What would you all do?