yeah, it's strange, if I remember correctly the PCR worked fine on my Intel i7 laptop right out of jump street when I upgraded it from v7 to v10 even without a hack, but was a total bust on my main whip AMD FX8370. The Impulse supports separate standard wheel controllers for pitch bend and modulation, and I do NOT want to live without the PCR's single joystick controller for mixing my PB&M. While it's true that the much newer tech Novation Impulse is heads and tails far superior in so many ways over the PCR but one. However, the PCR 500 still works just fine thru it's 5 pin dyn MIDI interface which bypasses the USB drivers, and using the USB port plugged into a wall-wart power supply, and ALSO using and storing MIDI maps in Cakewalk ACT instead of the PCR's "Editor/Librarian" solves all latency issues. Which is hardly noticeable with the flow of audio data or listening to playback of a pre recorded MIDI track, but really a buzz kill while trying to perform a keyboard performance in real time.
Yes I do understand this and have tried several hacks to make the PCR drivers work thru USB port, and it did indeed work, but not efficiently and bottlenecked the flow of MIDI data traffic causing unacceptable latency somewhere around an unpredictable and unstable 4-8 msec.
I have done all this and I now have my PCR-800 working in a fully patched Window 10 64bit machine.
Then do a manual installation instead on the driver's setup exe. All you have to do is edit an INF file from the Windows 8 driver. There is a way to get the PCR series MIDI controllers working in Windows 10.
But since I *****-slapped realtime scanning, Windows 10 and I have gotten along just fine. In my opinion an anti-malware program whose realtime scanning function can't be permanently disabled via a front-facing UI is itself as bad as being infected with malware, especially on a computer that is doing DAW and NLE work where it's running every plug-in and audio and video file that streams from the disk through its engine to make sure it's not infected. I shall welcome my new Taylor Swift-head monkey pr0n overlords when the time comes and hope that Ms. If those things were expensive, I might have had reason to put off the switch.Īnother example, a subject upon which we shall ever differ: if you had a child on the way you might name them Windows Defender, while I figured out a way to turn Windows Defender's realtime scanning off permanently, even on my systems that are running the Home Edition. Other things, maybe not so well, but their time had come. With most of it, I've been pleasantly surprised at how well Windows 10 supports it, in some cases things I had left for dead in Windows 7 are now usable again such as my Canon scanner. I stare at it a lot, and it's not a small thing. Another thing is I don't like the sharp corners on the windows with no way to change it in Themes. So it's not the impregnable technological marvel some make it out to be.
For starters, I am one of the many, many people who experienced rice krispies after the 1903 update and had to wait (not long) for the hotfix.
I'm not as gung-ho about it as you are, though, Steev. No, you were imagining what would happen if they don't! Yikes, it's hard to keep track.Īs you may remember, I made the leap oh, what was it, 6, 9 months ago on my main system? I'm in favor because I know that Microsoft's and BandLab's engineers work together to improve the audio underpinnings, and BandLab doesn't do in-depth testing on 7, as noted earlier. Yes, it's amazing what people imagine might happen if they switch to Windows 10.
? Ya know, the computer that looks like a trash can, but costs as much as a new Toyota? Then you'll be sorry you didn't upgrade to Windows 10 I'll bet ya. Some 15 year old 3rd world nation to take over your computer and maybe, just maybe start recording from your DAW adding Rap lyrics to all your favorite song projects and posting them on YouTube with some really lude porno with Taylor Swift's head Photoshopped onto some kind of monkey or hairless cat or something, and she'll get mad at you, and you'll spend all your time and energy apologizing to Taylor Swift trying to convince her it's all Microsoft's fault, and won't even notice that the 15 year old from the 3rd world nation used your credit card to buy himself a new Windows 10, or God forbid, a new Mac Pro.