looking to buy a new PC for production..

[rhythmtech]

Sorry man, could you clarify the non-64bit support for me, going to be upgrading soon i didn't think this was an issue and i've seen major music retailers selling Win XP 64bit machines. Do you mean that the plug in manufacturers won't provide support for their products on 64bit OS or that some are actually incompatible?

My understanding was that all 32bit software would run on 64bit OS and that it was just the hardware drivers that needed to be 64bit (these are available for most recent soundcards). I suggested XP 64 as 32 won't see more than 3gb ram.

a lot of plugs wont run on 64bit and a lot of manufacturers (midi controllers and sound cards for eg) dont provide 64bit drivers as yet.

[eppertheleper]

I got screwed on the Vista deal. XP just wasn't offered. So far I'm not having any problems, but I've got a 2.8Gig quad core with 8Gig of RAM, so it might just be the power pushing through it. It doesn't run at blazing fast speeds, though. Faster than anything I've had before, but not shocking amounts of improvement, which is what I'd expected. I'd llke to get XP and see how it does. Does anybody know where I could get a copy?

[p_brane]

I got screwed on the Vista deal. XP just wasn't offered. So far I'm not having any problems, but I've got a 2.8Gig quad core with 8Gig of RAM, so it might just be the power pushing through it. It doesn't run at blazing fast speeds, though. Faster than anything I've had before, but not shocking amounts of improvement, which is what I'd expected. I'd llke to get XP and see how it does. Does anybody know where I could get a copy?

TinyXP, got it running here with no problems. Real small install but does everything you need with a few tweaks.

and there is no producvt key

[d3v]

a lot of plugs wont run on 64bit and a lot of manufacturers (midi controllers and sound cards for eg) dont provide 64bit drivers as yet.

OK thanks for the info, apparently my sequencer runs on it and drivers are available for my hardware so thought i was set - will check the individual plug ins.

[ORIS]

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