Big Scottish Bloke
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Hey all!
Hope you're well.
I've been doing fine, thank you, with my
quad core studio PC for the past 1 1/2 years....but recently I bought East West Play, and
I'm starting to feel I need more memory, as I also have Spectrasonics Stylus RMX and
Superior Drummer, and Kontakt and using them altogether does stretch my memory, often to
the point of Cubase 5 crashing...
My understanding is that a 64 bit operating
system would benefit me hugely.
But where to start?!?
1. Windows 7 or XP
64 or Vista 64? Isn't Windows 7 a bit young to be using in audio pc's?
2. My
soundcard is RME and the drivers are fine for 64bit, but what about my graphics card? do I
need 64 bit drivers for that?
3. I use Cubase 5, but is there a particular
Cubase 5 version..surely I dont have to shell out more dosh for it?!
4. This
bridge thingy for using 32 bit programs in 64 bit....how does that work then?! Sounds a
bit complicated...! 
Like I say, I'm a bit befuzzled by it all...would appreciate
any help!
Cheers! 
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Will_m
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Quote Big Scottish Bloke:
1. Windows 7 or XP 64 or Vista 64? Isn't Windows 7 a bit young to be using in
audio pc's?
2. My soundcard is RME and the drivers are fine for 64bit, but what
about my graphics card? do I need 64 bit drivers for that?
3. I use Cubase 5,
but is there a particular Cubase 5 version..surely I dont have to shell out more dosh for
it?!
4. This bridge thingy for using 32 bit programs in 64 bit....how does that
work then?! Sounds a bit complicated...!
Cheers!
1. I'm
running Win 7 64 and love it for audio, from what I can tell the general recommendation is
that 64-bit xp is a little hard to find drivers and such but as always there will be those
who are running it just fine.
2. Yes you will need 64-bit graphics card
drivers.
3. Cubase comes with both 32-bit and 64-bit installers, you can in
fact install both versions on the same OS. I run the 64-bit one when using East West Play
as they have a 64-bit plug-in version. Then open up the same project in 32-bit Cubase and
mix it using my 32-bit plug-ins.
4. The bridge 'thingy' is not for programs but
for using 32-bit plugins within a 64-bit audio program. I haven't tried it myself but
people on the cubase forums report mixed results at present. You could also check out
j-bridge, a third party plugin bridge.
Hope that helps a bit 
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Big Scottish Bloke
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Hi Will, thats a great help thanks!
I'm quite surprised that windows 7 works
so well so quickly...I kinda imagined there would be a year or so before it was totally
trustworthy with audio.
Did you have to tweak it the same way we all tweak XP
to make it work better with audio?
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Will_m
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No problem, I've been using it since the beta version and had far less problems than I
ever did with xp. Although to be fair when I upgraded to seven I upgraded all my hardware
too. I guess it hasn't been out long enough to know for sure how reliable it will be for
audio use but just wanted to rely my positive experience with 7 and C5.
As for
tweaking, I have done very little, but as I upgraded to quite a powerful machine I havn't
found the need to squeeze any extra performance from it yet. I run it on an audio only
partition, so no internet or any uneccasary programs and hence processes to contend with.
The main tweaks I did were power related, just disabling screensavers and cpu saving modes
etc.
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Rousseau
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EWQL PLAY is a 'special' case. In an otherwise perfectly functioning system, it often
doesn't.
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Big Scottish Bloke
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Hi Rousseau,
yeah... a whole new can of worms you've opened up here!
Actually they say on the box of the Orchestral Play that 64bit operating system is the
minimum requirement!
I've had my ups and downs with it...but it does sound
great so I've persevered. I do hate the continuous hard sell from them, though I
understand its a business...just lay off a bit lads, huh?!
I think i'll
set up a new partition with Windows 7- make it a kinda "future" pc, and keep using my
regular partition for work in the meantime- till evrything on the 64bit one is as stable
as poss..
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