Well, this is embarrassing.
I was once an IT guru. Ran big iron for NASA, then for a national retailer before going over to the Dark Side (tech marketing). So something like updates should be top-of-mind.
When I bought the DAW box from a local gamer, he said he had laid down a fresh Win7 install (clean install ... no remnants of anything) and that he had updated the OS. I trusted him.
Trust, but
verify. I forgot that last bit.
So I looked at the OS per suggestions above, and not only were there few updates installed, SP1 had not even been installed. Sweet Jesus, no wonder X2 was doing quirky stuff.
Anyway, the short of it is that after a few hours of updating the box, not only did the demo of Producer install, but a lot of the latency issues I was having with X2 dissipated. I'm now debating if I should bother test driving Professional.
In that regard, I have some questions for you very helpful folk:
1) Win7 or Win10 under Professional?
2) Is Professional better enough to justify the cost for someone cutting demos and doing mild distance collaborations?
3) Assuming the Lexicon Omega is finally identified as burdensome, what modern interface (2+ audio and MIDI inputs, plus RCA outs) would you recommend, assuming it has a modern and usable ASIO driver?