# Vista Fiesta...

- Site: Analog Industries
- Author: Chris Randall
- Date: 2007-02-08
- URL: https://analogindustries.com/2007/02/vista-fiesta/

![Vista Fiesta...](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/vista.jpg)

Just got my copy of Vista in the mail today. The thought of installing this behemoth makes me throw up in my mouth a little bit, because my PC is working so well right now. (And I'm very much of the "if it ain't broke..." school of thought as regards to PC upgrading.) I can't realistically install it until Lynx releases Vista-compatible ASIO drivers, but I can admire the packaging which, while somewhat byzantine, is quite slick.

Anyways, expect a complete and thorough bitch session once I get this shit shoehorned in to my computer.

## Comments (20)

**noisegeek** (2007-02-08):

I hope to god you're going to be dual-booting that crap.

**Chris Randall** (2007-02-08):

Don't know what God has to do with it, but no, I won't be.

-CR

**ecallender** (2007-02-08):

Wow. Gettin' that running right'll be like shaving your head with a cheese grater.

**herrprof** (2007-02-08):

god has little to do with os installations

**frugalpole** (2007-02-08):

i just went through a massive upgrade. and i've decided i'm retarded. really dumb.

ppc --> intel
live5 --> live6
reason3 --> komplete4

each was full of horrendous frustrations. i think i've finally weathered the intel thing. live6 is buggy as, well ... and komplete4 is some great stuff, but i'm really having trouble adapting. my efficiency has tanked majorly.

i could seriously give a frack about shiny-new features. jus make my crap not quit, or fail miserably.

btw, the AD plugs were by far the smoothest for me in the transition. kudos.

**phasor3000** (2007-02-08):

You do know about Vista interrupting its graphics subsystem every 30 ms to make sure it hasn't been tampered with, and if it thinks it has, it reboots the graphics card? And that digital audio (e.g. SPDIF) is considered a dangerous output format which Vista doesn't want you to use? And you'd better have clean AC powering your machine, because Vista will assume that a power fluctuation means it's being tampered with and reboot itself.

But I guess it's worth it to have translucent windows, and to be able to use a USB flash key as virtual memory. *cough*

**unempty** (2007-02-08):

Oh man, I'm so not prepared to deal with that shit. But I will watch you take the pain though. *grabs popcorn*

Seriously though, install it on a spare drive or something so you don't end up unable to get any work done for any length of time.

**giantm** (2007-02-08):

Apparently Vista is THE platform for Sonar, and not much else. Personally, I wouldn't upgrade until they get the kinks worked out and call it OS X. Yep. I have no problem jumping on the MS bashing wagon. I might give it more slack if I didn't spend all day writing software for it.

**neilium** (2007-02-08):

I'm sticking with PPC and Live 5 until a MacIntel falls off the back of the truck at my office. I'm using a Mac Pro for work (publishing) and I'm not convinced.

**studio nebula** (2007-02-09):

Yes, well, these are the sorts of noble sacrifices which we make for our customers: installing Vista just to verify that our products run under it long before any sane musician starts using it themselves.

It'll be interesting, one way or another. Acutally I'm hoping that it will be dull, and that our stuff will just work without fuss. Awhile back I did install the RC1 release on a new drive in my main PC; that was straightforward enough. Then I tried wiping that drive, copying my entire XP C: volume to it, and then doing an upgrade install of RC1. That failed even before the installation finished. Dunno whether or not it's going to go any more smoothly with the final release, but I'm not betting on it.

In any case, the PC that I use solely for music (i.e., not for actual Audio Damage R&D, web surfing, iTunes, Photoshop, FPS games, etc.) will continue to run XP for the forseeable future.

--Adam

**valis** (2007-02-09):

I don't think I've ever done an 'upgrade' to any of my installations, as you wind up with as much cruft littering your HD as when you do a system rollback (drive imaging is so much cleaner). I can see why it's there for shifting units to consumers but...bleh.

**moyashi** (2007-02-09):

"I'm sticking with PPC [...] until a MacIntel falls off the back of the truck..." - neilium

Ditto. My dual 1.8 G5 is the most transparent and trouble-free mac in my 16 years as an apple eater. I just did a track instantiating the celemony melodyne plugin on @10 channels of a large logic project. Smooth sailing. I ain't gonna fix what is so sublimely unbroke. I just wish Magix would port Sequoia to OSX...that's the only thing which might tempt me to dip my toes in the intel water.

**dm** (2007-02-09):

I've got the dual 1.8 too. Have never had a single problem in close to 3 years. My work machine is a dual 2.3 and that also runs like a champ. Fantastic machines, wish they didnt have to go and fuck with something that was working so well.

I liked Anthony's video after trying to install Vista on launch day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxQm3IsSKAo

either of you dudes have any luck?

**Tomer** (2007-02-09):

Anybody tried runing the new motu drivers on vista?
im thinking about doing a complete switch and go vista runing sonar 6 - motu ultralite.
Any thoughts?

**Diamond Dave McAnally 103** (2007-02-09):

I just bought a new laptop today that has vista on it. Don't really have any intentions of using it for music stuff, but on Vista itself...well it's pretty and really superflous. That's what I think after about 20 minutes with it

**studio nebula** (2007-02-09):

Neither of us have gotten to it yet. Chris is casting about for a drive to put it on, and I decided that working on a new filter for our next product was more interesting. Tonight I'm setting up a new server.

--Adam

**Scodiddly** (2007-02-10):

This is where a spare hard drive is a very good investment. Carefully take out your old drive and set it aside (ideally in the antistatic packaging from the new drive). Put in the new drive, install whatever new OS. At the end of the day when you're tearing your hair out, swap back to the old drive so you can get your business done.

**uvacom** (2007-02-10):

Better yet, if you've got a full-size case just connect both and use the BIOS to enable the appropriate channel. Or if you have some aversion to that, just leave both in but disconnect the one you don't wish to use.

**studio nebula** (2007-02-10):

Believe me, between the two of us, Chris and I have set up so many dual-boot, multi-boot, multi-drive, multi-partition, multi-OS, multi-everything systems, both PC and Mac, that we've lost count. We're not exactly new at this game. The first time I did a memory upgrade, it was adding 16K of RAM to an Apple ][+. Both were brand new at the time. (Eventually I built an 8-bit DAC for that thing, and used it both as a sequencer for my ARP Odyssey and to do wavetable synthesis using a mixture of Applesoft BASIC and assembly code, but I digress. Yes, I was a geek even as a teenager.)

--Adam

**Chris Randall** (2007-02-10):

Yeah, we're Nerdzilla. No need to offer advice as to how to set up a Windows machine. Didn't ask, don't want. ;-)

-CR