Time to update windows operating system and sound interface

[allanaceflyer]

At the moment I am using vista but as ableton no longer supports it I will have to move further up the windows operating system so is it to be windows 7 64 bit or the not so liked windows 8.1 64 bit or windows 10? My old 16/16 emu interface will need replacing but it does ok it gets 7.89ms round trip plus whatever it's not telling me could do with a little latency than that through the daw. I usually record through the mixing desk using compressors on the inserts and send it out through the groups to the sound card so latency is not an issue when recording but it would be nice to use ableton as an effects processer in real time. I am going to get a new sound interface been looking at the new motu ultra lite avb seems to be very fast latency wise with built in digital mixing desk and eq and compression on the channels but motu always seem to have problems on the windows operating systems is anybody using this? or maybe I should go for rme uxc as I believe this will just work although the cost is much more but sometimes it's worth paying as it does work. Anybody got any input on this?

[allanaceflyer]

Ok sound card less than 5 Ms round trip
At lease 6 in at couple of pre amps for out and about 8 or more outs
What Version Of windows 64os at this moment in time Do you use
Yeh Mac is better?
But i got Microsoft
Hope I survive

[Richie Witch]

Since upgrades to Windows 10 are free until July 29th, 2016, I'd be tempted to just move to that. And you figure Windows 7 will probably be unsupported in the next year too, so even more reason to move all the way to 10 now rather than later.

I would advise against moving to Win 8. My wife has it on her laptop, and anytime I have to fix something for her, it just drives me insane.

[Kypresso]

And you figure Windows 7 will probably be unsupported in the next year too,

Its easy enough to just look this stuff up rather than just making shit up.

Win 7 support will end 14th Jan 2020.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/lifecycle

[Richie Witch]

And you figure Windows 7 will probably be unsupported in the next year too,

Its easy enough to just look this stuff up rather than just making shit up.

Win 7 support will end 14th Jan 2020.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/lifecycle

The question at hand is how long Ableton will continue to support Win 7, not Microsoft. Please read the original post.

At the moment I am using vista but as ableton no longer supports it ...

[sporkles]

Since upgrades to Windows 10 are free until July 29th, 2016, I'd be tempted to just move to that. And you figure Windows 7 will probably be unsupported in the next year too, so even more reason to move all the way to 10 now rather than later.

I think the free upgrade only applies to Windows 7 and 8 users, though. Either way, my experiences with Windows 10 have been overall positive (despite some initial problems). I'd say go for it - Windows 7 will eventually be unsupported, and Windows 10 is the last numbered version of Windows, from what I understand (which, hopefully, means that future upgrades will be free).

[allanaceflyer]

Thanks for your replies, looks like the way forward for me is to upgrade to windows 7 64 bit as ableton supports this just wait till windows 10 settles down and then upgrade before July. Nobody has replied on what they think is a good usb interface with 5ms or under as a round trip in and out. I was looking around and a few people on the cakewalk forum (no I don't use sonar) were spouting the merits of the motu ultra lite abv interface but there's not enough feedback really to know if it really works at that latency on windows, still drawn to rme but that's so expensive, hm!!