MM100 and Win7 the love story

How I spent my summer vacation, or how I lost a week of my life.

After fretting over upgrading to Win 7 I finally took the plunge, spurred in part because of my desire to obtain Komplete 8.I originally ordered a new PC, but because it didn’t have enough SATA ports I canceled and decided to upgrade my existing PC a Dell XPS 410 with Core 2 2.66, 5 Hds, 6 PCI slots and I upgraded to 8 gig RAM.Replaced existing OD drive with new drive, first one bad out of the box from New Egg, a second one laying around the house didn’t take(both WD Green Caviars, btw), finally a new Barracuda  did  the trick and in 30 minutes I had Win 7 Home 64 bit installed.

Most of the Hardware drivers went beautiful, thanks to the new device driver wizard. A few I had to download Win 7 64 bit drivers
But the frustration will be noted below in certain circumstances.

Reinstalled Sonar 1 64 and 32 bit , Dimension Pro install hung a few times till I replaced the DVD Drive (but win 7 installed ok on the existing one).

Re-installing and reauthorizing plug ins!! Here is where  I made sailors blush and a grown man was crying.

The Good. All the IK stuff, Most all NI, Antares, WAVES!,UAD, Power core, Some Focusrite, Nomad, East West,and one or two others  installed authorized, and scanned with plug in manager.

The Hair pulling. Aria Player, MOTU symphonic and Steve Slate Drums EX required several attempts at install and authorizing, and digging up old content disks .
Liquid Mix and Tacam FW1082 required that I change their FW card drivers to legacy to work properly. Also the 64 and 32 bit installers of the tascam  fw1082, Tranzport, and Alphatrak, called their Dlls by the same name. I had to rename the 64 bit dlls and Regsvr them all.

The rotten. Liquid mix does not play with Sonar 64 bit, no way no how.Focusrite states it is Sonars problem.End of story.

I haven't tried recording or a big project yet, just playing back some old stuff, and other than  not finding some plugs , the projects seem to play OK. Further testing is in order.I am not  a Freddie Frenzy 64 bitter,but I suppose it had to e done sooner or later.

I suppose it had to e done sooner or later.

Well done it gets better over time too.

I did mine piecemeal by setting up a dual boot and keeping my XP setup I was able to gently lower myself into the murky waters of 64 bit Windows 7 Pro over a period of time.

I have a fair bit of productivity stuff aside from music that only runs on XP so I've left all that and all the office type garbage and non-music stuff on the other boot partition but I'm exclusively on Windows 7 64 now for my DAW stuff, both 32 bit and 64 bit.

Luckily I didn't have anything that caused a major migration headache.