vista or xp :S ?

[fmw]

What you say is true. However, what I said is true also. Vista was not successful. After they fixed it, peoples' preception of the issues lingered on. Visa, in its current form is fine. People still remember when it wasn't.

[w1ll1a9m]

hmmm vista is sometimes better, for example... when i put a song on itunes in vista it sounds waaaay better than xp. I installed xp sp3 yesterday, and I'm allready missing that "rich" sound when I listen my music... but what the hell. lets see how xp sp3 works, and lets wait for windows 7 jeje.

[stigg]

I went here and got some good Vista/recording info.
I'm running Reaper on a 1.8 HP pavilion laptop with vista home premium
and after some tweaks it works well.
Gizmo's - How to Make Vista Run Faster | Gizmo's Freeware

[Deodar]

Gizmo's the chief Geek

[tdelvecchio]

From my experience and what I can tell from reading about other's problems, I can't say that things will be any better under Windows 7. ALL of the problems I've had in the last two weeks have been due to crap drivers not Vista. Unless manufacturer's actually adhere to specifications and standards, these problems will continue with Windows 7.

Just to give you an idea of what I've found...

I've had my Dell XPS with Vista 64, Core 2 Duo and 6 GB of memory for almost 6 months and it has worked flawlessly.

I purchased a Tascam FW-1884 Control surface/Interface. The Vista 64 drivers are crap, evderyone (including Tascam) knows the drivers don't work and there is no fix for nearly two years! Conclusion: Bad Drivers.

I sent back the Tascam and got an M-Audio ProjectMix. There's a lot of B.S in all the forums about getting a specific Firewire card (which I did) and other nonesense about how to make the thing work. Bottom line? The drivers are crap! They will NOT install when the system sets up a shared IRQ. This is NOT a Vista problem. IRQ sharing has been part of the PCI specification since its inception! If a driver will not install under these conditions then the DRIVER is to blame, not VISTA! Again, Crap drivers are the problem.

I have made this point before on other forums, but here goes again. To blame the majority of the problems people are having on Vista is to let the hardware manufacturers off the hook for writing crap software. And the problems will never be solved!

I should say that some companies get it right. Cakewalk Sonar 8 installs flawlessly and runs like a champ under Vista 64 bit.

There's my two cents.

Thanks,

[Electriclight]

Well exactly. It took almost two years for Vista drivers to get out there and almost that long again for 64 bit drivers. There is no improvement in Vista for audio recording, period. There is certainly no improvement worth all that hassle. Windows 7 is supposed to be backwards compatible with Vista so hopefully the drivers will be out there and ready this time. But who knows? The point (for most of us) is not who to blame, but what is going to make life easy. XP

[OUGHTA KRAWL]

I Agree With Diagreeing To A Certain Degree. My First Forced Post. Sorry Seriousisms Out There.:d

[Geissler]

Originally Posted by w1ll1a9m

hmmm vista is sometimes better, for example... when i put a song on itunes in vista it sounds waaaay better than xp. I installed xp sp3 yesterday, and I'm allready missing that "rich" sound when I listen my music... but what the hell. lets see how xp sp3 works, and lets wait for windows 7 jeje.

Rich sound? haha, are you joking? First of all, iTunes is an awful program. It's bearable under OSX, but in windows it's horribly bloated and slow. Try foobar if you're serious about sound quality.

Second, if you have an external soundcard then there will be no difference between the sound emitted by each operating system. XP is fast and reliable, leaving your resources free to concentrate on the audio - unlike vista, which has so many services and processes running that make it incredibly slow. The argument of "if you have a decent PC, you'll be fine" doesn't fly - the bottom line is that on the same hardware XP is faster, period. I don't know how you can say that its days are numbered - support and updates for XP end in 2014, 5 years from now. Declaring that an operating system is better simply because it's newer is a ridiculous argument.

Windows 7 is looking promising. It's just reached RTM so we should soon get news on audio performance. Until then it's XP - search for "dux XP audio optimised", I believe it's the best operating system for recording music.

[whomper]

Originally Posted by w1ll1a9m

hey what's up guys this is my first post ithink... I'll be really gratefull if you can help me...

I need an advice, I'm choosing between Windows Vista an xp for home recording..

I have a pretty good pc runing Vista ..., but I've seen so many people complaining about vista in recording and all that stuff...

so my question is....

is my hardware ready to run everithing I need in home recording,and do it well ?
or xp is gonna be a better chose at the end ?

if XP is better...... should I get the xp sp3 ?

my pc:

cpu: amd athlon 5600+
MB: msi k9a2 platinum
ram: 2gb 800mhz
VC: nvidia 8600gt

hmmmm

sorry for my english, I'm tryin' to improve it... but I think you got the point

thnx

xp beats vista every way especially for audio

if you dont like xp
cough gasp choke -- get a mack - barf blurp
never though i would say that

[richiebee]

Cubase 5 works better for me in Windows 7 than it does in XP. Machine is pretty old - PentiumD920, 2Gb RAM... (just about to be semi-retired actually). Works fine in both really, but I get a slightly lower overhead from Windows 7 than XP, freeing me resources to do more.

Even the keyboard for which no Vista drivers were officially created works fine in Windows 7. My audio interface works fine in Windows 7.

Haven't tried Windows 7 in 64 bit with lots of RAM yet, but I'm just a couple of weeks away from it. I expect a few hiccups, but am confident of making the right call to move to 64 bit. I need that RAM.

XP will die very soon. Windows 7 has received very positive press and reviews from users. It's great even before its released, which is more than you can say about most of Microsoft's products. The music (IT and every other) world is abuzz about it, and its what will get people to move in droves to W7. As soon as the number of XP users starts to diminish, it will become harder and harder to find legacy support from manufacturers.

Microsoft might commit to it until 2014, but software developers won't.

Originally Posted by Geissler

The argument of "if you have a decent PC, you'll be fine" doesn't fly - the bottom line is that on the same hardware XP is faster, period. I don't know how you can say that its days are numbered - support and updates for XP end in 2014, 5 years from now. Declaring that an operating system is better simply because it's newer is a ridiculous argument.

Windows 7 is looking promising. It's just reached RTM so we should soon get news on audio performance. Until then it's XP - search for "dux XP audio optimised", I believe it's the best operating system for recording music.