It's been a while since I have posted. I have sat down many times in the last week only to get three words in and hear the words "DADDY COME HERE, or HELP MEEEE ". Anyway, no more excuses, if you have kids then you know and if you don't one day you will say "now I know what that dude with that blog was talking about".
One of my PC's bit the dust 3 days ago. I can't complain since this was one I brought back to life that a friend had retired and it was 8 years old. This time time rather than upgrading it and replacing the HDD I just said forget it and went to work and started looking for something new.
I ended up buying an open box PC (after working around computers they somehow loose their worth like anything else one works around everyday so I just cant pay sticker for a brand new bleeding edge machine anymore). Anyway, like I said, I ended up with an open box PC with a Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 Processor, 400GB sata HDD, dvdrw, built in wireless g, blah blah blah. It had 2 GB of DDR2 RAM from the factory but it was running Vista so I went ahead and put 2 more in it. Overall I think I got a really nice PC and did not spend over 500 dollars on it even with the extra RAM so I am not complaining.
So now we come to the point of this post. I work with Vista all day long for a living and do not really have a problem with it 99 percent of the time. BUT..... (big word huh) 99 percent of my customers use their computers to surf the net and check email. I and most everyone I assume who reads a blog like this use their computers for more than checking their email so we might run into a couple of snags running Vista. I'm not saying, I'm more like asking.
All the way home I was contemplating removing Vista all together and loading my copy of XP Pro on this machine for a couple of reasons. One is that since I have been playing with Vista for over a year now I am over the initial WOW factor of aero-flip and the windows side bar (that took about a day) so the only thing I would really miss about Vista in comparison to XP would be the search feature. Two is I already KNOW all of my drivers for all of my third party software work with XP. and Three is I just wanna see how fast XP will run with a dual core processor and 4 gigs of RAM.
Now we come to my second delima. The computer that broke is not my studio PC. The PC in my studio is working just fine, it was our everyday user upstairs that broke. It has crossed my mind to take the new bad boy computer and use it for my studio (hence all the talk above about Vista not working with my third party software). Then I woulld use my studio pc for everyday use upstairs. BUT...theres that word again...BUT there is nothing wrong with my studio PC and I kinda believe in "if it aint broke dont fix it". The PC my studio is running on is a P4 2.something with 2 GB of RAM with 2 160gb sata drives in it and I have no complaints. It would also be a horrible pain in the head to reload everything again just to find something with the new machine was incompatible or to find out I did not gain any performance.
SOOOOO this is where my blog will hopefully prevail. Has anybody used Vista with Ableton live or any mainstream DAWs for that matter? Has anyone noticed a difference in you DAW's performance between single,dual,or quad core processors? Any feedback would be great, for now I think I'm just gonna put this thing upstairs and use it to check my Gmail.
I will say that even with Vista this thing seems to fly with all the junk stripped from it and 4 gigs so I'm happy for now even if I am just checkin my mail.
4 comments:
Its Mike From The CDT....
Well as far as using Vista with a DAW, I cant really tell you. I use Vista with my CAKEWALK SONAR 6XL, and its fast, and everything seems dope. But I swear everytime I feel I got alot accomplished SONAR says "F You Mike". SONAR done stopped working for a second time. First time, it just wouldnt open. Now itll open but wont allow me to export or playback anything. And I wanna blame Vista, but I was also using Adobe Audition until I got my SONAR straight, and it worked fine. It just for whatever reason gave me a poorer quality in the music I was making. So Im about to reboot my computer again, to get SONAR going, again.
Not really sure what you all are talking about. I just use my PC for email and EMR, but it sounds cool? Found your blog and just wanted to say HI!
Becky S. from VA
Don't do it!!!!!!!!!!
Vista is pretty unreliable, other wise every business would be running to switch rather than wait until all support for XP has run out :)
I don't use it personaly don't run it for a DAW but I'm in a news group with yahoo. One report is that the latency jumped form 4 ms with XP to 25 MS by switching. Then just stoped working. I'm running higher with the EMU 0404 card.
I would avoid Vista.
I bought a new PC this summer and didn't want to just follow the crowd by avoiding Vista. "Let's give it a chance", I thought.
After a month of really hoping Vista would solve it's problems I switched to XP. For once I have to agree with the flock: avoid Vista - it looks pretty, but XP works.
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