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Subject: Best PC OS for Music
Original Message Date: 17-Jul-01 @ 12:14 AM - Best PC OS for Music
OK heres my situation. Next week i'm going to be getting a new PC which i will be using to record music with and sequence with using Cubase VST 5.
It will be Pentium III 1Ghz, 256MB RAM, 30 GB Harddrive. As a soundcard I will be using a Delta 44.
Now my question is that I have a choice between getting Windows 98 or Windows 2000 NT (thats NT not just regular windows 2000) on it. So which on is better for music or overall better for what i'm going to be doing with it???
Thanx in advance for any help.
It will be Pentium III 1Ghz, 256MB RAM, 30 GB Harddrive. As a soundcard I will be using a Delta 44.
Now my question is that I have a choice between getting Windows 98 or Windows 2000 NT (thats NT not just regular windows 2000) on it. So which on is better for music or overall better for what i'm going to be doing with it???
Thanx in advance for any help.
Message 11/17 23-Jul-01 @ 09:17 AM - RE: Best PC OS for Music
what ever happened to BeOS being the multi-media savior? I think Radar runs on it.
So if I am using Windows 2000Professional, Does it take advantage of Dual CPU'S for use with Sonar?
So if I am using Windows 2000Professional, Does it take advantage of Dual CPU'S for use with Sonar?
Message 12/17 23-Jul-01 @ 04:41 PM - RE: Best PC OS for Music
BeOS's "focus" was shifted from multimedia to internet. Many companies dropped their promised support.
Windows 2000 Professional supports dual CPUs. Depending on how the program is written, you may not get the most out of it (if it isn't fully multithreaded). At very least, though, you'd get the app on one CPU and plugins on another.
technocats@earthlink.net says:
NT is a more stable program than any 98 (even from the new XP).
NT is way more stable than 98, but good luck finding sound card drivers for it. Newer DirectX versions won't run on it, so throw out any applications that depend on that. NT is NOT a good music OS. As far as XP goes, XP is built on the Windows 2000 core. It will be more stable than NT if my experience with Windows 2000 is any indication. It will be much much better for music than NT. I was hoping to have more concrete information about XP for everyone by now, as I have access to the betas of the OS. But MOTU isn't coding Win2K drivers for my MIDI interface so I'm stuck with 98 until I can get a new one. Before you ask, no I cannot provide copies of the beta to you
-Craig
Windows 2000 Professional supports dual CPUs. Depending on how the program is written, you may not get the most out of it (if it isn't fully multithreaded). At very least, though, you'd get the app on one CPU and plugins on another.
technocats@earthlink.net says:
NT is a more stable program than any 98 (even from the new XP).
NT is way more stable than 98, but good luck finding sound card drivers for it. Newer DirectX versions won't run on it, so throw out any applications that depend on that. NT is NOT a good music OS. As far as XP goes, XP is built on the Windows 2000 core. It will be more stable than NT if my experience with Windows 2000 is any indication. It will be much much better for music than NT. I was hoping to have more concrete information about XP for everyone by now, as I have access to the betas of the OS. But MOTU isn't coding Win2K drivers for my MIDI interface so I'm stuck with 98 until I can get a new one. Before you ask, no I cannot provide copies of the beta to you
-Craig
Message 13/17 24-Jul-01 @ 02:02 PM - RE: Best PC OS for Music
xp gives blowjobs to goats. i installed RC1 on a couple machines in the Palace, and system speed and reliability both went down, noticably. And i am not talking about on dinky machines. My dad's is a 1.2 ghz athy with a gig of ram and an ata100 HDD, mine is a 1.467 athy with 512 mb ddr ram and a raid 0 array of said hdd's. ing rollbacks. The only featurse about xp is that its interface is pretty. Win2k was the ONLY windows release to take less resources than the release before it, and is the most stable YTD. I plan on NOT getting XP, it is shit. Oh yea, and for you office users thinking of upgrading to office xp and winxp, to do so and achieve the SAME speed to complete tasks, you'll need roughly a 500 mhz proccessor INCREASE. blows goats, huh?
win2k is the donkey's balls when it comes to multimedia os's, as long as you are smart about it. the ONLY time my system crashes is when i am exiting counterstrike (speaking of which, i'd like to send a shout-out to static-x who i actually bumped into on a CS server the other day.) and that's cause HL is crapemetastic in terms of stability. And it takes over the screen and KB. so whatever. and yes k, i have cs installed on this machine *gasp* i also have premiere and orion installed. any wanna buy my hoontech? i dont need it anymore (no more hardware makes 8x8 inputs excessive)
aaron
win2k is the donkey's balls when it comes to multimedia os's, as long as you are smart about it. the ONLY time my system crashes is when i am exiting counterstrike (speaking of which, i'd like to send a shout-out to static-x who i actually bumped into on a CS server the other day.) and that's cause HL is crapemetastic in terms of stability. And it takes over the screen and KB. so whatever. and yes k, i have cs installed on this machine *gasp* i also have premiere and orion installed. any wanna buy my hoontech? i dont need it anymore (no more hardware makes 8x8 inputs excessive)
aaron
Message 15/17 27-Jul-01 @ 03:23 PM - RE: Best PC OS for Music
Well, XP crashes on every shutdown and doesn't like my DSP factory much, so I've been using 98. I'll reinstall when RC2 comes out.
I did really like the new GUI.
-Craig
I did really like the new GUI.
-Craig
Message 16/17 06-Aug-01 @ 05:20 PM - RE: Best PC OS for Music
rc2 is out. xp takes like 30-40% more recources to run than the previous os (nt5, aka win2k) i dunno if it has adat in, i know it has sp/dif i/o..
Message 17/17 11-Aug-01 @ 10:29 AM - RE: Best PC OS for Music
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I use Windows 2000 with Cubase 5, a Delta-66 and a Midisport 8x8. With the new ASIO2-drivers from Midiman/M-Audio itīs stabil as a rock. I donīt regret a second that I upgraded. Been using it for a few months now. Never crashed once.
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