Live 8 on windows 7?

System6music · Post by **System6music** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:22 pm

I have been playing around with Windows 7 a lot, and I am really impressed. I was dual booting Vista, but Widows 7 has been so fast and stable, I am literally using it as my only OS at the moment on my laptop.

Live 7 performance under windows 7 is amazing....any problems here or success stories? Thanks!

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:50 pm

when is the official release for W7?

Geezus · Post by **Geezus** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:53 pm

Win 7 is the first time in recent memory that I'm actually excited about a new windows release

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:56 pm

Wow, now we've devolved into discussing performance on 2 things that haven't been released yet.

Will 8 work in flying cars?

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/2 ... g-car.html

Has anybody tested this?

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:57 pm

^ well, it's very typical of Microsoft to get a release right after a couple of tries...we didn't get XP until well after NT and Win2K. So I'm not surprised that W7 will be way way way better than Vista.

System6music · Post by **System6music** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:39 pm

beats me wrote:Wow, now we've devolved into discussing performance on 2 things that haven't been released yet.

Will 8 work in flying cars?

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/2 ... g-car.html

Has anybody tested this?

Right.....well I am using windows 7 as I type this very email, and others are testing windows 8 at this very moment as well. How more relevant can it be? Yes they are both in beta....but that's the idea of a beta....to check for compatibility, performance, and bugs.

Could this possibly be MORE relevant?

The flying cars thing....cute though...and oh so helpful.....

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:44 pm

System6music wrote: The flying cars thing....cute though...and oh so helpful.....

Don't mind the Mac fuckbucket. When will Win7 be released?

keithwired · Post by **keithwired** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:47 pm

no idea yet, but I have the win 7 ultimate beta 64bit and ableton 7 runs rock solid on it, MUCH better than Vista. On Vista for whatever reason (must be directsound) Ableton lags, but with Win 7 that lag seems to have disappeared or resolved.

Geezus · Post by **Geezus** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:00 pm

keithwired wrote:no idea yet, but I have the win 7 ultimate beta 64bit and ableton 7 runs rock solid on it, MUCH better than Vista. On Vista for whatever reason (must be directsound) Ableton lags, but with Win 7 that lag seems to have disappeared or resolved.

how does its performance compare to XP?

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:04 pm

nebulae wrote:
System6music wrote: The flying cars thing....cute though...and oh so helpful.....
Don't mind the Mac fuckbucket. When will Win7 be released?

Every thread needs a hater and it's every Mac owner's right, nay, responsibility to place droppings in PC posts. We've got small user percentage complex.

keithwired · Post by **keithwired** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:08 pm

Geezuz the performance is comparable to XP, I can't tell a difference between the two OS's performance either better or worse, it seems just as good.

System6music · Post by **System6music** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:51 pm

In benchmarks and my personal experience, Windows 7 is the fastest OS ever!

It actually got higher benchmarks on a newer machine and an older machine than XP did. For a beta, the stabality is amazing, and in the 32bit version, Live 7 runs better than it did for me on XP or Vista SP1.

Besides major GUI enhancements, and better performance, it uses less battery power due to tweaked system config and automatic start up processes. For the same reason, it boots faster and shuts down faster than and other OS I have ever used including OS X and Ubuntu.

It looks like this is the real deal....

The last official statement from Microsoft was that it would be out late 2009 or early 2010. However, the majority of tech magazines and tech writers believe it will be here as early as this summer with such a stable beta, and the fact it's already been made public. The beta officially expires in August, so we will see!

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:55 pm

^ I agree...I have high hopes for Win7. Looks like Vista to Win7 is the same parallel as WinME to WinXP. Very nice

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:45 pm

Win 7 uses a ton of the Vista core and is still in beta - I too hope it will be an improvement but steady on there Jeeves !! Vista was flying in beta too.

As for benchmarks - they are an easily manipulated feast and the only benchmarks that matter to audio and MIDI performance are never featured, benchmarks are for gamers. It doesn't always matter that faster graphics can be delivered - Vista always had higher inherent system latency than XP, and that is crucial to a musician. I've never seen a general computer magazine or website publish a test that shows how well an ASIO driver works under an o/s. I've seen them test DX and MME drivers, windows native and poor performing drivers. I've never seen them run a MIDI test.

Windows 7 still is not bringing updates for MIDI (in fact, windows 98 was the last time MIDI was updated in windows). Mac OSX Core MIDI is a much more recent and better defined protocol than MME and Direct MIDI. And finally, what will determine whether win7 flies or not is the driver support. How much effort have Microsoft put into 3rd party audio and MIDI companies, in terms of supplying them with SDKs and developers kits and liasing with them ? Apple have done a great job on this in the recent past, Microsoft failed pretty bad on Vista, which is why a lot of products never got updated to Vista and many others only have flaky, almost beta drivers - not to mention Vista 64, which has little support. The driver support will be key, let's hope they get it right this time ...

Geezus · Post by **Geezus** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:15 pm

on a side note, due to the great things my friends and others are saying about win 7's performance and polished features in addition to the dirt cheap price for microsoft stock, I bought some shares back into this mofo. I think win 7 could boost this company back up to decent earnings again, and if there was a time to buy msft its now.