Windows XP

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What do you think about Windows XP?

  • Great for Home Recording!!!

    Votes: 66 68.0%
  • Garbage for Home Recording!!!

    Votes: 7 7.2%
  • Wonderfully uncomplicated for those who want the power of Windows but are not really computer savy.

    Votes: 8 8.2%
  • Complete shit for everyone.... STAY AWAY!!!!

    Votes: 16 16.5%

  • Total voters
    97
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Just out of curiosity.... what are the thoughts and or predictions for Windows XP?
Please explain why you like or dislike Bill's newest toy.
 
its the best for production

i use xpPro in my studo. its the best os by far, i don't care for all the graphics so i just disable them. its much more stable than any other os. i haven't had one problem.
 
I have no opinion except my standard reaction for every new Microsoft OS, which is to let the early adopters go through the bugs and wait for the first service patch to come out.
 
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I have SP1 beta installed with my XP Pro version... although the "official" SP1 won't be released for a couple more months, there are beta serive packs for XP floating around...

Great OS if there are appropriate drivers for your sound card...

No probs burning CDs either... I use CDRWIN 4.0a and Nero 5.5.5.1...

There should really be no probs with burning CDs in XP anymore since most of the softwares that didn't work in it (EZCD, etc...) have patches now available to update the progs to XP support...
 
I have a dual boot system running Win Xp for games and the net and ME for audio. I must say there really should be an "unproven" option. One BIG downside to XP is that a lot of audio programs will not run on it.

The main one is Cubase - some people claim they got it working ok but I have my doubts and I would rather wait until Steinberg make a release which is 100% Win XP compatable. Cubase 5.1 is due out soon and has no updates on the XP compatability side of things as far as I know.

I love XP as an OS but until it is proven i will steer clear of it for my audio setup at the moment.
 
Do you need to own another verison of windows to do a dual boot?
 
As far as digital audio recording goes - there is no reason to use WinXP over Windows 2000.

WinXP is Win2k with a cute new little interface, not much else as far as digital audio recording professionals are concerned.
 
brzilian said:
As far as digital audio recording goes - there is no reason to use WinXP over Windows 2000.

WinXP is Win2k with a cute new little interface, not much else as far as digital audio recording professionals are concerned.

No...not really..

Winxp is a godsend. It is what win2k should have been all along. It is more stable than ME/9x, its faster than 2k and ME/9x, and it has a much greater compatability than 2k.
 
XP Fanatics Report!

What soundcard are you getting to work flawlesssly with XP?

This question applies to all of those reporting positive experiences with XP.

And what features of XP Pro made you drop the extra C-note on the Pro Version?
 
Re: XP Fanatics Report!

drstawl said:
What soundcard are you getting to work flawlesssly with XP?

This question applies to all of those reporting positive experiences with XP.

And what features of XP Pro made you drop the extra C-note on the Pro Version?
I'm using a M-Audio Audiophile 24/96 with Sonar using their latest Wdm drivers for XP. Not a single drop-out or freeze. I'm getting 2ms. latency so far.
My system:
Asus A7A 266 motherboard with Ali chipset
1.2 Gig Athalon T-bird
512 DDR ram
1 40gig WD HD 7200rpm
1 20gig WD HD 7200rpm

Also I'm using the Home version. I'm not planning on using dual processors and that seems to be the main reason to go pro.

Greg
 
XP is allright with me

I changed out that piece of crap kt133a for a Asus A7m266 w/512 DDR ram. Yeehah! Stability, stability, stability. I'm going through old tracks, new tracks. Piling on tracks. Piling on plug-ins.
Only time it burped was when I put 4 busses on Vegas 2.0. I then tweaked it all big time as per
http://www.nuendo.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/004038.html
Went to standard pc and got rid of graphics and other annoyances. Could then set my IRQ exactly how I want them and now...
XP rocks!
I love it...its what I've been waiting for.
Good luck with your machines if you upgrade.
 
Peaches

c9-2001....

Just wanted to ask how ATL is doing? I am a native Atlantian that is living in Munich Germany at the moment, and no I am not in the army. Just wanted to say hey.

Mike
 
I am using a delta 1010 and cakewalk sonar. Since I was using XP pro pre-release(legitimately), it didnt cost me anything more for pro over home, but I would have gone pro because I paln on dual processor eventually. Home should be fine for most other. I havent tried VST, because I dont like VST.
 
Re: Peaches

Alchemist3k said:
The main one is Cubase - some people claim they got it working ok but I have my doubts and I would rather wait until Steinberg make a release which is 100% Win XP compatable. Cubase 5.1 is due out soon and has no updates on the XP compatability side of things as far as I know.

I love XP as an OS but until it is proven i will steer clear of it for my audio setup at the moment.

Cubase works fine under XP... i know i'm using it right now. Cuibase 5 vst/32 R6. not one problem. i also have nuendo on this computer...no problems evey program i used under me works fine other than Pro tools 5.1 their is a compatibility servicec pack out also at microsoft's web site.

what are you using?
i just setup 2 DAW's and they are working fine under Xp. one was a dual athlon with a Motu 2408mkII and the other is a 1.8 athlonXP with a Staudio C-port....


pisces7378 said:
c9-2001....

Just wanted to ask how ATL is doing? I am a native Atlantian that is living in Munich Germany at the moment, and no I am not in the army. Just wanted to say hey.

Mike

Atl's aight. i've been doing some tracks with a few atl artist. decatur will always be crunk when you get back. so if you arn't in the army why are you in germany? i lived in germany myself a few years back. i think i was at HAWN....
 
Re: Peaches

pisces7378 said:
c9-2001....

Just wanted to ask how ATL is doing? I am a native Atlantian that is living in Munich Germany at the moment, and no I am not in the army. Just wanted to say hey.

Mike

hold on have i talked to you b4? with my man chris and alex.... when i looked at your name being mike and being in germany i just though about it? let me know if your the same mike....
 
laptop recording

Hi. I am new to the group and to home recording. I'm looking for a little help. In August, I bought a 4-track at a garage sale and have ahd fun monkeying around with it (I'm as amateur a musician as they come). Anyway, I just bought a laptop with XP on it and I'm wondering-can I use it to record and replace my 4-track? ANd How?
 
Not me

No, I donät think that I have ever talked to you. I am from ATL and I work for Texas Instruments in the DSP / Data COnverters (Analog/Digital conv. DIgital/Ana. conv.) department.
 
o ok. the mike i'm talking about is working with hardhead recordings out in germany
 
Re: laptop recording

mikeolson74 said:
Hi. I am new to the group and to home recording. I'm looking for a little help. In August, I bought a 4-track at a garage sale and have ahd fun monkeying around with it (I'm as amateur a musician as they come). Anyway, I just bought a laptop with XP on it and I'm wondering-can I use it to record and replace my 4-track? ANd How?
You should be able to pick up a USB audio interface of some sort. That should do to replace a four track at least
 
Does you need professinoal XP or will the home version do? Also do you need to own other versions of windows to do a dual boot?
 
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