X1 on XP?

I finally bit the bullet and upgraded from Producer 8.5.3 to X1.

But I also just bought my poor college son's Intel Quad Core / 4GB / 2 Drive desktop, with a nice 23" monitor and great graphics card.

The plan would have been to get the V-Studio 20, because I'm a guitarist, and need only limited audio capabilities.  The problem is, that I can't justify spending any more money on this hobby of mine, at least for now.

I have a M-Audio Quattro USB interface which I bought used, and haven't really used - the problem is that the drivers for it only go up to 32-bit XP.

So, would it be crazy for me to install XP on the system I have and install 32bit X1 on top of that?  Would audio performance suffer?  Would graphics performance suffer?  Did I mention that I also have an older version of Jamstix 2.x, which I believe only support 32-bit hosts?

I have no problem using XP.  We still use it at work.

Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

Seth Perlstein [Cakewalk
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SONAR X1 still supports XP and will run fine. If you ever add on more than 4gigs of RAM then I'd recommend upgrading to Win7 X-64, but until then you should be fine.

SP

Cool.  Thanks for the incredibly fast reply.  Shouldn't you be having a weekend? 

There are many users here just like you & me who successfully run both 8.5.3 and X1 on XP32.

As Seth said, the only real limitation is the 4Gb Ram limit, but this only really becomes a problem when you're running Ram intensive plugs like BFD & some of the big orchestral libraries - but you can still do an incredible amount of work even with this limitation, just remember to bounce or freeze as you go.

I managed to load 14 instances of EWQLSO even when I had only 2Gb Ram.

So bite the bullet fella - you'll be fine

that's my backup system.  I recently set up a new computer with win7x64 and that's my main DAW, but my backup system is still the XP with X1 and previous versions.