When talking about RT and pads it seems that a lot of us forget about Cakewalk own small touch DAW Music Creator. I bought it today to test it on my Surface Pro with Windows 10.
http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/Music-Creator/

Jarsve
When talking about RT and pads it seems that a lot of us forget about Cakewalk own small touch DAW Music Creator. I bought it today to test it on my Surface Pro with Windows 10.
http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/Music-Creator/

Hi Jarsve, I'd be very interested to know how you get on.  I have an i7 SurfPro running on Win8.1 currently but will uprade soon ...

jbraner
<to voice assistant>
"Open SONAR please"
 
<me>
"Wow - what a cool upgrade"

<to voice assistant>
"Mix that project using Platinum, pronto"
 
<voice assistant>
"Preparing mix tape of Tonto's platinum hits."

I have been reading about windows 10. It seems that there are some interesting changes. I guess they are making a new browser. It will be called Spartan. I can't help but wonder if it is just a rebranding of Internet Explorer. The start button is back but I hope it is better then the one currently in Windows 8. They will be giving it away for free for 1 year. It will be free for all windows 7 and windows 8, 8.1 users.
 
I am thinking about testing this on one of my old windows 7 machines.
 
The thing that I found most amazing is the hololens reveal. It would be great if the bakers worked with that technology. If you though touch was revolutionary then hold on to your hat because this will change everything. It would be so cool to operate Sonar using this hololens technology.
 
I know that may be a few years away but it is still pretty cool. Much better then just locating my car.

Hey StarTekh - I'll take a look at this next I'm in my "room"!  I'm interested to see what these things do, especially the first one, which seems like it would allow me to bypass checks.  I'll try them and post back here with the results.

Marcus Curtis
The thing that I found most amazing is the hololens reveal. It would be great if the bakers worked with that technology. If you though touch was revolutionary then hold on to your hat because this will change everything. It would be so cool to operate Sonar using this hololens technology.

While such things look interesting, can you imagine holding your arms up for hours at a time ?  I much prefer having my forearms flat on my desktop and use a lowish profile keyboard and the flattest mouse I could find.  I can easily spend eight hours without moving much.  A comfortable chair is a must !
 
Touch also requires you to keep your arms in the air if you don't want to activate everything by accident (on big low screens).  Not for me.
 

Paul P

Marcus Curtis
The thing that I found most amazing is the hololens reveal. It would be great if the bakers worked with that technology. If you though touch was revolutionary then hold on to your hat because this will change everything. It would be so cool to operate Sonar using this hololens technology.

While such things look interesting, can you imagine holding your arms up for hours at a time ?  I much prefer having my forearms flat on my desktop and use a lowish profile keyboard and the flattest mouse I could find.  I can easily spend eight hours without moving much.  A comfortable chair is a must !
 
Touch also requires you to keep your arms in the air if you don't want to activate everything by accident (on big low screens).  Not for me.
 

You raise a good point. I suppose everyone has their preference. Some people probably won't like the hololens technology. The first time I saw it I thought of cakewalk. I think it would be great to have a 3D representation of Sonar that is not confined to a computer screen. Imagine using Sonar like Tony Stark from Iron Man. 
 
I am use to playing guitar for hours on end and moving around while I play. I don't think this will be much different. At least I will get my exercise for the day. I don't know everything that this new technology has to offer, but I can't help but wonder how the bakers would take advantage of something like this. I think it will be exciting to watch.
 
but like I said, this is probably a few years away.

Well - I tried the bcdedit commands and rebooted and attempted to install the PCR-800 again to no avail.  It did the same thing as before.  But thanks for the idea.
 
As for the Orca thing, I'm not sure that's going to get me any further down the line because I think the problem is as much in the installer as it is in the drivers themselves in this case.  Since the device is "recognized" by Windows after the driver is installed (goes away and comes back in the device manager when unplugged and replugged and shows as PCR, not unknown device), and it doesn't simply work by using the inf file install option, there must be some Windows magic performed in that interim detection step that the exe installer does.
 
I'm certainly open to other ideas as to how to make this work.  My 8.1 re-install is running fine on my SSD in the meantime, and I've spent the time to get everything fully installed and configured over there (which of course performs better because it's on an SSD and because it's a nice clean install), but I'd like to get it working on the "old" installation so that I could then upgrade the SSD partition to the Windows 10 "trial" to get to use it regularly.
 
Thanks again for the thoughts.

Marcus Curtis
I have been reading about windows 10. It seems that there are some interesting changes. I guess they are making a new browser. It will be called Spartan. I can't help but wonder if it is just a rebranding of Internet Explorer. The start button is back but I hope it is better then the one currently in Windows 8. They will be giving it away for free for 1 year. It will be free for all windows 7 and windows 8, 8.1 users.
 
I am thinking about testing this on one of my old windows 7 machines.
 
The thing that I found most amazing is the hololens reveal. It would be great if the bakers worked with that technology. If you though touch was revolutionary then hold on to your hat because this will change everything. It would be so cool to operate Sonar using this hololens technology.
 
I know that may be a few years away but it is still pretty cool. Much better then just locating my car.

Spartan is still only the code name. It may be called something else by release time. It's not a rebranding of IE. So far its screaming fast and the scrolling is butter smooth.

No offense meant-But how could someone possibly "buy" a new version of windows as soon as it's released?
If this is due to business I still wouldn't want Sonar near a new windows right off the bat. But that's just me I guess.
I wait , at least for a few months of updates, or even service pack 1.