Kenny if you liked the desktop of xp win 7 then a freeware "Classic Shell" brings back the comfortable look to win 10

Thanks Ham N Egz  
 
Kenny

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

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
 
 
 

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 ;)

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
 

yep that's why i talked about Latency mon ;)  that i use since 8 

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