All,
I'm about ready to throw in the towel on Win2K. An1xEdit has never worked with the onboard (joystick) MIDI adapter. Media player isn't fond of my Midiman 2x2 USB. Now, Cakewalk has also stopped working with the USB adapter, even though I haven't changed anything. All of these items were fine under Win98, and all of them still work on my '98 laptop.
So, I'm debating: Should I drop back to Win98SE, or plunge ahead into WinXP? Is anyone out there using XP for music? If so, how do you like it? How stable is it? I'm concerned about Win98's long-term future, and it doesn't handle my 1GB of RAM as well as '2K does. OTOH, XP is based on 2K, which was based on NT, which never had great audio support. Is XP any better?
Oh, and please: no "get a Mac," "I use BeOS," or "What about Linux?" answers. I use my main PC for more than music, and I have almost $15K invested in Windows-based engineering development software for my main gig. It's just not going to happen in the near term.
Feel free to answer off-line, if you prefer.
TIA,
-BW
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Bruce Wahler
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