OK I bit the bullet and picked up a Black Friday Dell lap top w Win 10 on it

If you liked Windows 7, you're going to love Windows 10!  Very short learning curve.. Congratulations!

Live and Learn ,
 
I had tried the same drivers I had for Win 8 for my 2i4  (Since I had the installer saved on an external HD …)
 
OH man , I was worried there for a while because I could have won a Grammy for The Best Rice Crispy's Up Close and Personal Sound Track  
 
It took a bit of jumping through hoops to get my 2i4 working properly in Win 10 .
 
Thankfully Focusrite had current drivers for it ..
Still trying to figure it out because the control panel for the 2i4 drivers in Win 10 only seems to be showing a slider .
Nothing else appears to be showing up . I'm like how do I set it to ASIO ?
 
 
Kenny

@mixmkr , 
It sounds like I took the same OS path as you . XP to 8 to 10 .
Wow ! you have a StudioCat computer , that must be nice .
Yeah , that fly out window on a 15 inch laptop LOL . I was getting tagged on the right constantly by it.
Between that and all the nagging Win 8 put me through,  I felt like the ghost of somebody's else's mother in law decided to move in and haunt me through my computer . 
Already , even on this consumer grade lap top I picked up , I like Windows 10 much better than Windows 8 .
I'm having a really good time w Win 10 . So far , I put a lot of my lighter musical applications that I use for study on it .
Stuff like BIAB , Transcribe , and a few other music programs that I use all the time any way …
 
Have a good one , it was nice rapping with you ,
 
Kenny
 

Thanks Ham N Egz  
 
Kenny

Zo
is there a real ineterst of going from 8 to ten impacting our music world ?

Hello Zo , 
 
According to the type of information put forth in this presentation , I would venture to say yes .
A great deal of the Win 10 push could be because "Folks " for lack of a better term at all levels of the music business are trying to get ahead of the loop to level the playing field concerning improving Windows way of handling audio .
BTW,  Cakewalk gets mentioned numerous times in the video .
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2015/07/29/windows-10-promises-better-audio-midi-performance-easier-app-development/ 
 
As far as me personally goes , I have my reasons to at least try to keep an open mind .
A big one is I wanted to find out for myself if I could Gell with Win 10 . It was very important for me to do it in a totally safe way where I would have nothing to loose .
Over the course of time I had noticed a lot of guys on the forum were making the jump to 10 , some where happy , some were having problems and rolling back .
 
I was not willing to take that chance on the only Windows computer I own that will run all my current music software that's PC only .
I had become overly protective of my one computer with Win 8 . It had X3 and a ton of expensive music software applications on it and it took me a couple of years to get that sucka running to where I was happy ..lol 
 
Picking up the Black Friday Dell helped give me the freedom to try something new and take a chance .Because of that safety net I felt comfortable enough to upgrade to SPlat and install it on my Win 8 machine minus the updated 3rd party stuff . 
The Win 10 machine also has SPlat on it now (minus the 3 rd party stuff ), it is obvious that I will probably hit a brick wall on the Win 10 machine when I push it …I'm OK with that , in the mean time I can use it to learn the new features in SPlat and use it for the net …
 
all the best , 
 
Kenny
 
 
 

Zo
thks Keni , yep i knew those infos , but i wanted real user feedback ....thks i appreciate that !
 
If you could run a latency mon test and post it to us we could compare with my dell XPS 15 under 8 ;)

I read somewhere the DCP latency tool that is common has a problem reporting accurately under win 10 , i dont remember where I read that
 

Thanks for the info Ham N Egz
 
Zo , I don't think it would even be fair to try and compare or evaluate the performance differences between your Win 8 i 7 Dell to my consumer grade Win 10 lap top . It may be a good idea for you to find someone on the forum with a closer spec machine to yours  running Win 10 . I feel that will give you a better idea .
 
Having said that , I was surprised to find out that after installing SPlat on my way under spec'd  Dell Win 10 computer that it was able to open up some former projects that I have done and run 35 tracks of mostly audio ,there was no heavy lifting or heavy CPU plugs or synths were involved .
That one got me by surprise considering that I had kept my expectations pretty low  and I would have just been happy to have been able to use the machine to learn the new features in SPlat and surf the web ....
 
all the best
 
Kenny