| Home recording and general music post from the archived Yabb Recording Website Message Board. Some of the info here may be outdated but many of the audio recording and home studio tips are still good. Note: The only tags I made and attempt to convert are italics, bold, center and underline. So if you see some gibberish surrounded by brackets, just ignore it.
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Febuary 2001 Yabb Message Board Archive
Subject: Problems with WinME??
by Crippled_Rich | 06/06/01 at 06:45:35
OK will be getting a new PC that comes with WinME. It has come to my atttention that Win ME is crap so I was wondering if anyone here has had experieince with it and could share what the problems/issues are using WinME with Cakewalk and DirectX-plug-ins.
Should I plan on installing Win98SE instead? I understand Win2K is very good however some of the software I have doesn't have drivers for Win2k at this time so my only choice is to fallback to Win98SE.
Comments? Thoughts anyone?
Thanks.
Subject: Re: Problems with WinME??
by DanS | 06/06/01 at 07:46:28
I would stick with Win98SE. ME is one big frozen blue screen. :P
Subject: Re: Problems with WinME??
by Liana | 06/06/01 at 08:02:23
Hi, I had win ME for one week, the problem is that most of the software on your system wont like it. The drivers are hard to find for many of the software products therefore you will get conflicts etc. Also if you are lucky enough to find drivers, they dont always work. Different soundcards dont like it, grahics go haywire...NOT worth the trouble! Win 2000 has similar problems with no drivers...stick with 98 its better..then you wont be downloading heaps of things to fix the bugs!
Subject: Re: Problems with WinME??
by Haywire | 06/06/01 at 11:24:59
I don't even use my computer for recording/editing, and ME definitely sucks. Does a lot of strange stuff. I cannot imagine it behaving itself with the various audio software that's available. SE is much more stable, and I'd agree with the previous replies.
Subject: Re: Problems with WinME??
by pouxhawk | 06/06/01 at 14:51:58
Good day to you all...Well you nice people just rained on my parade...I just bought an HP7588 that has ME on it...Being that I came to this site looking for some ways around the stinkin on board sound...Now I find out that the OS on this thing is crap.....On a curious note...the people at Mark of the Unicorn reassured me that their product was tested,and would work with, the ME O/S....but I'm not shelling out a grand to find out otherwise...Looks like I'm back to where I started from...I guess I'll use this computer as a general purpose home machine...I needed one anyway...Should have done more homework I guess....I think I'll go nail my foot to the floor so I'll have an excuse for going in circles......Dean"pouxhawk" G ???
Subject: Re: Problems with WinME??
by Tim_Z | 06/06/01 at 15:51:18
Don't write it off yet. There are a lot of people having some troubles with ME, but there are probably many more not having any problems with it. It's just that they don't post their success. I have a friend who is using Wavelab, Cakewalk 9.0 and Nuendo on a P11 450 PC running ME and he is happy. ME has some nice features as well, like being able to reconstruct your system after a crash. You may have a few glitches with your machine, but I'm sure you will be able to work with it. :D
TZ
Subject: Re: Problems with WinME??
by DanS | 06/06/01 at 18:44:06
I would hold off on buying anything pricey for the moment, but like Tim said, you can give it a try. If there's problems, you can always reformat with Win98Se, no? ::)
Lord knows I've reformatted mine enough times!! ;D
Subject: Re:WinME & Win 2000 problems?
by Me-Liana(Im stuck) | 06/07/01 at 01:27:50
Ok...I got my new souncard Logic 5.1 it comes with lots of free software for recording multitrack, handling midi extra but guess what...it does'nt work in win 2000, unfortunately I am on a working machine for other business and cannot go back to 98, my dilemma..another $300 australian to run Cubase 8 or 9 ...boy these music shops screw you no matter what they tell you, and just to make sure I left the shop with the things I didn't know i would also need, heck another $100 australian for the cables to connect everything that now I get home with, doesn't work!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been told that I can't even run cakewalk 8 well Im going to jump off a bridge...or find some freeware to test that works with win 2000 any suggestions?????????