Digital Hell

Dear Family,
 
Just reaching out for support in this dark night of the soul. Only you guys could understand.
 
I have finally gotten rid of Win XP. Loved the stability but nothing new would run on it anymore.
Upgraded to win 7 64 bit from the England sites off of Ebay that legally allow resale of scrap OEM licenses from broke down computers. (This after contacting MS and they said OEM's are a go on the discontinued OS but can't transfer the license).
Installed and MS says that it is an invalid license number. Tried to contact the vendors and got a reply that they are out of the office. That was $3.00 yankee green down the tubes. Anyway got it working thru other means.
 
I'm fully convinced that if there is a hell in the afterlife, it will be sitting in front of a screen for eternity trying to reinstall your recording environment. Old version of IK Miroslav creeping thru the process ever so slow.
 
Looking with dread to installing Superior Drummer and the Cakewalk synths if I can ever get the IK stuff working. Crap, then there's Kontakt. Then there's 15 gigs of Alchemy. Please say a prayer and send some good vibes my way.
 
Otherwise, hope all are having a good time.
 
John
 
 
 

craigb
So analog is heaven? 

It was when digital was introduced.

JohnKenn
 
I'm fully convinced that if there is a hell in the afterlife, it will be sitting in front of a screen for eternity trying to reinstall your recording environment. Old version of IK Miroslav creeping thru the process ever so slow.
 
Looking with dread to installing Superior Drummer and the Cakewalk synths if I can ever get the IK stuff working. Crap, then there's Kontakt. Then there's 15 gigs of Alchemy. Please say a prayer and send some good vibes my way.
 
 

 
 
Oh man, I feel your pain.... I remember taking a whole 3-day weekend just to get my last new pc even close to where it's predecessor had been and with each new installation method that vendors some up with it seems to get worse.
 
 
About a month ago I bought Komplete Select plus the upgrade to Komplete 11 and thanks to NI's "new" way of doing things just installing Select was such a complete and utter balls ache that I haven't yet worked up enough enthusiasm to face even starting on the full Komplete, so it still sits in the unopened box. 

Guys,
 
Thanks for the replies, support.
Got Dim Pro 1.2, 32 bit installed finally. 64 bit went belly up. Rapture, ZTA okay. Working on the Cake things like strings, TTS-1, Boost, pianos etc.
Only 2 programs I got, ZTA and Xpandi that require online activation because I couldn't beat the system. Cracked everything else I bought.
Noted that after the PACE install for Xpandi, the startup time and sequence is weird in many ways. PACE is evil.
 
Though I prostituted myself with out of control online activations where something else owns your soul and wallet, the Cake Command Center was quite painless to get ZTA up and running.
 
The nightmare of Alchemy and Kontakt is on tap tomorrow if I can slam Cake into submission today. Superior Drummer a task on its own for another day.
 
Cakewalk flashing error messages as I type. Joy...
 
 
 

Thanks Craig,
 
Getting there...
The Cake things installed finally.
Got the uphill battle of Alchemy, Superior, and Kontakt ahead.
Day or two of work and I should have a white man's system installed again.
Has been a big relief getting things functional in Win 7 that were a crash for Win XP.
 
John
 

Zargg,
 
Really wished this was as easy. Problem is the new OS wiped out the past so having to reinstall everything new.
Have a backup for win XP to get some files from the disc, but everything toasted otherwise.
 
Struggling with Alchemy now. As a side note, if any of you guys were left in the ditch when Alchemy went down and need a good install of a lost library, I got all of the commercial ones. Let me know and will get it to you if needed.
 
John

Thanks Zarrg,
Down to Pod farm, Kontakt and Superior drummer. And definitely will be backing up.
John

Holy Crap,
 
Kontakt fired up and working... How did I deserve this with only a few glitches and restarts...
Superior Drummer, EZ drummer and the midi loops on tap for tomorrow. Too drink to drunk any more installs today.
 
Love all you guys,
 
John
 

Welcome to 2009 John!  
 
(Though, I must admit, I'm still buying computers for clients and requesting Windows 7 instead of 10...)

Cutting my minor losses and calling it a success. Cloned the new monster.
Can't install C++ libraries to allow Kontakt to upgrade to the latest and greatest, but the old Kontakt 5.2.0 works okay. Was a mess installing old libraries. Can't tell what if anything I am being deprived of.
Otherwise Win 7 is cool. Runs everything so far that XP would not. Can keep my Delta 1010LT card and get a few more years out of the dinosaur. Might even outlast me. Great thing at my age is never having to worry about getting anything for the extra price of a 50 year warranty any more.
 
Win XP is a thing of the past for me now.
 
John

Yes,
 
Haven't thrown my XP discs away either, though likely won'r be using them again.
Funny thing is that you can throw all of them away and keep one.
The OS installation disc provided with a computer is the same disc provided with another computer.
It's only the OEM license number that is attached to a specific machine if the discs came with a commercial rig. Plug in the number for the specific computer and the same disc  works for all of them.