is windows 7 64-bit any good?

[Disco Nutter]

My usb M-Audio Fast Track Pro had a lot of problems with 7... I don't know if it was due to the drivers or something, but it kept shutting down just like that. Since M-Audio's support generally sucks, I got no decent feedback from them.

I was sad to see 7 go as I reinstalled XP, but at least the card works better now.



Jason

PS. Loved 7's look and feel though! Some cool features too!

[deadly_habit]

My usb M-Audio Fast Track Pro had a lot of problems with 7... I don't know if it was due to the drivers or something, but it kept shutting down just like that. Since M-Audio's support generally sucks, I got no decent feedback from them.

I was sad to see 7 go as I reinstalled XP, but at least the card works better now.



Jason

PS. Loved 7's look and feel though! Some cool features too!

they have some decent drivers now and avid bought out maudio so it's just a product line name now and customer support is better

[Big MD]

Hate it, the amount of shit it runs in the background is unreal

yeah but it can handle it, infact i swear one of them is a programme that lets it run more programmes at once

Mine cant for shit
ram 61% and cpu 58% on standstill

that's why i decidet to buy a macbook pro... yeah i know, i sound like a mac dickhead rightnow. but on mac os arn't any programs in the background if you don't need or want them, my cpu was never higher than 40% (using safari, itunes, torrentbrowser, msn, and ableton at the same time 40%cpu).

Even my old hardware is working all on mac. I was using windows and hating mac for such of things long long time.

[ResetTheAtari]

Had two macs and nothing but problems with them! Will never buy another one. Overpriced and underpowered - imo they are PCs for idiots.

Win7 shouldn't be running shit in the background, make sure you uninstall all your startup programs that you don't need. It has a tiny footprint, smaller than XP.

[Big MD]

when did you buy your last mac?

Overpriced yeah! that's true


underpowered? i disagree, cause the technical data becomes on a mac an other meaning. the system uses mutch less to run.

[ResetTheAtari]

I just got rid of my MacBook pro 2.2ghz cause the video chip fried. Looked up info on it and it seemed a common problem with the model. So much for macs never going wrong. Was going to cost more than it was worth to fix which is macs biggest problem, no cheap parts for faults.

I had a G4 before that that seized up. Would boot then immediately power down, had to sell it for scrap.

Never buy a mac.

Got a Dell now, works like a dream.

[GRAYSKALE]

I just got rid of my MacBook pro 2.2ghz cause the video chip fried. Looked up info on it and it seemed a common problem with the model. So much for macs never going wrong. Was going to cost more than it was worth to fix which is macs biggest problem, no cheap parts for faults.

I had a G4 before that that seized up. Would boot then immediately power down, had to sell it for scrap.

Never buy a mac.

Got a Dell now, works like a dream.

WORD - until I busted the screen my dell worked like a dream - and - on top of that - I went on there website and they have technical advisors explaining the computers to you 24/7 - dont have the money for a new lappy yet but I sure was swayed from apple to mac when the dell guys started explaining to me the difference between quadcore and i7 and how it would effect my music production! i7 is the way forward for VST users =D

[3za]

thanks guys for all your help so far. i just got a few more questions;

1. akai mpk 49, i've read that these have problems with windows 7 is this true? and if this is true could i use midi as a work around?

2. komplete 5, i've read that all the komplete vst's work with windows 7 64 bit, apart from reaktor which needs a 32 bit enviroment or some thing is their a work around for this ?

all my other software/hardware seems to be ok.

think of getting about 4-6 cores and about 4-8 gb ram.

peace,
3za.

Damn, I sure hope not. That is part of my studio right there, an MPK49 and Reaktor. I'm getting a quad core Win7 machine built at this very moment.

im so atm

i think reaktor works on windows 7 64-bit, but it only works in 32-bit mode atm.
with the akai i have read in some places it works and other it don't, maybe it didn't work but, now they sorted it. i don't know

anyone know about the akai mpk49?

[mks]

thanks guys for all your help so far. i just got a few more questions;

1. akai mpk 49, i've read that these have problems with windows 7 is this true? and if this is true could i use midi as a work around?

2. komplete 5, i've read that all the komplete vst's work with windows 7 64 bit, apart from reaktor which needs a 32 bit enviroment or some thing is their a work around for this ?

all my other software/hardware seems to be ok.

think of getting about 4-6 cores and about 4-8 gb ram.

peace,
3za.

Damn, I sure hope not. That is part of my studio right there, an MPK49 and Reaktor. I'm getting a quad core Win7 machine built at this very moment.

im so atm

i think reaktor works on windows 7 64-bit, but it only works in 32-bit mode atm.
with the akai i have read in some places it works and other it don't, maybe it didn't work but, now they sorted it. i don't know

anyone know about the akai mpk49?

I did a bit of research on this after you posted this. Reaktor will still work fine as a vst in your host software at 64bit. Standalone has to be run at 32bit. There is something called jBridge that may help with this.

http://www.kvraudio.com/news/11229.html

There is a rumor of Reaktor 6 sometime in the future which will be 64bit. NI has already made a lot of their other synths 64bit compatible.

As far as the MPK49, I could not find anything really conclusive. I am going to hope that it will just work.

EZ

[ironik]

I bought a 6 core windows 7 64bit pc a month back.
It runs mint and so so so fast and clean, i was expecting far worse as i was expecting a new version of the failed Vista but nope its great id prefer it over xp and i was an xp freak haha.
I LOVE being able to pretty much do anything i want while producing tunes and still always have over 50% cpu left and no lag whatsoever.
Its a f@cking blessing.
Go for it

[ResetTheAtari]

I just got rid of my MacBook pro 2.2ghz cause the video chip fried. Looked up info on it and it seemed a common problem with the model. So much for macs never going wrong. Was going to cost more than it was worth to fix which is macs biggest problem, no cheap parts for faults.

I had a G4 before that that seized up. Would boot then immediately power down, had to sell it for scrap.

Never buy a mac.

Got a Dell now, works like a dream.

WORD - until I busted the screen my dell worked like a dream - and - on top of that - I went on there website and they have technical advisors explaining the computers to you 24/7 - dont have the money for a new lappy yet but I sure was swayed from apple to mac when the dell guys started explaining to me the difference between quadcore and i7 and how it would effect my music production! i7 is the way forward for VST users =D

If you have the extra cheddar go for the i7, but I have an i3 in this and it works fine. It's just a .6 slower. The 500 meg gfx card I got inside as a trade off makes up for it though! Gonna be installing Diablo 3 on this when it drops. Already got Steam and stuff like Portal and HL2 installed and they work great cranked to max.

[dreadheaded]

i have an i5, and i have several projects with 70-80 tracks, lots of power hungry VST's and i never even come close to 100%cpu usage, the most i have seen is around 65-70% usage, but if you can id say definately go for the i7 if you are going to get the 1366 socket

if you want the 1156 socket i wouldnt bother with the i7, its alot more money for not much extra performance

[dreadheaded]

i havae just noticed they have brought out a dual core i5, so get the i5 750 cause its quad core and cheaper and has more cache memory

if you want an i7 i would go for the 860, or maybe the 930

[Big MD]

have windows 7 64 bit now in my studio for a cuple of weeks, must say - works good! it wasn't my choice, but i'm positivly surprised!

[AxeD]

I run it on my laptop and it is nothing better than almighty xp. It uses a lot more RAM than you would expect so I turned of all fancy features. Looks like '98 after turning everything off but it runs like xp so it's pretty good.

[EBR]

is using windows 7 64-bit to make music and what software and, hardware you use?
do you have any problems with software or hardware?

Yes. Its solid and stable. No problems. MUCH better than Xp.

[mks]

Yeah, so I finally re-built my machine last week. I had it built in June by my brother, but it was in a crappy case and it took me a bit to have some extra dough to get a new case and some new RAM. So now I got an AMD Quad core Phenom Processor, 4gigs of RAM running Windows 7 Ultimate at 64 bits. Next week I'll be adding 4 more gigs of RAM and a second hard drive. I also got a kvm switch so I can run two computers off of one monitor, mouse and keyboard, so I'll be running an XP system and a Windows 7 system side by side. Looking forward to start loading software on it this week, I've just been letting it run and tweaking it a bit to check for stability, but it seems to be running smooth so far.

I have to handle a lot of audio for my day job, and I have a similarly spec'd computer just recently built there, and damn, does it copy and move audio files around fast!! Excited to have my first 64 bit system in my studio.

EZ

[RightOnTime27]

Im running reason, recycle, audacity, star wars empire at war, itunes, and some youtube vids and it just laughs at them.

[AxeD]

is using windows 7 64-bit to make music and what software and, hardware you use?
do you have any problems with software or hardware?

Yes. Its solid and stable. No problems. MUCH better than Xp.

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