Download: Cakewalk SONAR 8.5. But the proof is in the pudding so they say. The 8.5.3 AudioSnap Update for Windows XP, Vista (32-bit & 64-bit), and Windows 7 (32-bit & 64-bit) versions of SONAR 8.5 is available as a free download to all registered SONAR 8.5 and V-Studio 700 customers. And half the multimedia community is on that platform too. But they now are working closely with Apple too. Since Intel owns thunderbolt they do make hardware changes usually without notifying the multimedia community. I do espect thunderbolt to be lowlevel integrated. And has warm relations with most hardware manufacturers. Because of hardware and driver issues Cakewalk has allways been upfront about what works and what not.
But Cakewalk was way way ahead as they had been developing 64 bit since 3 versions and offered both so customers would not suffer. And the transition W-XP W7 was rocky for some because of 32 bit > 64 bit. The transition between W98>W-XP was somewhat rocky since the core now was NT and it was 32bit instead of 16. The transition between W95 W98 was somewhat rocky since ASIO was being developed. The transition between W7>W8 was very smooth. I havn't tried keyboards yet.In retrospect. I expected driver problems I guess, but it's still frustrating, particularly not really knowing what the issue was. So no idea, but when I shut down last night, it was working, and I will get back to it again tonight to double check all is well, as I need to kick off a new customer project. Nothing worked, except the very last thing I did, which was re-install the old driver, for about the 4th time, and changed the midi playback buffer size, again, and suddenly everything worked, but I swear, I had done that a few times already. Heaps of re-boots, turn off everything available not necessary in WIN10 options. Two hours of mucking around, trying again with the new driver, different interface settings. Uninstalled and re-installed the old driver. Did all the usual parameter changes but nothing worked. Sounded terrible and full of clicks and pops. Then I installed the new beta driver from Focusrite for my 18i20, and the fun began. Unlike a previous poster, Win10 was in the drop down menu, and once added, all good.
First issue was XLN having to add my computer ID again. Just thought I would share my experience changing over to Win10 from 8.1.
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