Comments on: Is Windows Vista A Dying Platform For Music?

By: Speed Up Vista

Speed Up Vista — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:15:34 +0000

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By: ThegoodDoctor

ThegoodDoctor — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:37:41 +0000

It is interesting that you mention it. Symphony/Rosetta/Apogee & Nuendo will not be supporting windows as of Windows 8. No word yet on Windows 7. But, it looks like music is dying in Windows.

On a reverse note, there are a few companies considering not supporting Mac anymore. Weird world.

Oh yeah, and money is the only reason ever. Especially if you are talking about Digidesign.

By: djajaja

djajaja — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:23:02 +0000

I can’t see doing live music on a Vista laptop, though I’ve had good luck with Sonar under Windows.

Music on Windows seems like its going backward. If Microsoft isn’t careful, Vista music is going to end up like doing music on Linux.

By: Psylight

Psylight — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:38:53 +0000

I’ve done a couple gigs with my Vista laptop. The audio out was reliable; I was just using DirectSound though, not anything low-latency or otherwise technically-advanced. However, before SP1, audio in was also glitchy. SP1 seems to have resolved this somewhat.

The issue is that the entire sound architecture was redesigned, and the new APIs (WASAPI) are not completely bug-free yet. A good friend of mine tried to get WASAPI working and ran into problems with many consumer-grade devices. 10ms latency is nothing to sneeze at, however.

The reason for the redesign, to the best of my understanding, was the poor design of several high-profile drivers. So, to remedy the fact that Creative pays its driver developers peanuts, Microsoft redesigned the sound architecture to be more resilient. Once Windows 7 lands, Windows will probably be very competitive. As-is, it’s just immature, not dying. I’m excited to have WASAPI as an alternative to ASIO, which has several notable design flaws.