Bottle Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 Hi Chaps Been very fortunate to have a very understanding wife who supports my hobby <3 She got me the chorus pedal I'd been GAS'ing for a while (Boss CEB-3) and has now come up trumps with my latest acquisition - a Palmer D'Accapo re-amping box got them both from Amazon and the Palmer was a bargain at only £60! Can't grumble with that! We recently bought a new laptop to replace my ageing Toshiba and her Dell (we got another Toshiba, built like a tank), which comes with Windows 8 64-bit. Not entirely happy with the OS as it seems to want to update every single time we turn it on! Another issue I've been having up until last weekend was the lack of suitable drivers for my old M-Audio FTP. Not willing to bin it and get something newer, I have perseverd and apparently I'm not the only person to be upset with Avid finally found the latest drivers (v6.1.10) here: [url="http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Download/Fast-Track-Pro-Drivers"]http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Download/Fast-Track-Pro-Drivers[/url] At the same time I got the latest stable ASIO drivers for 64-bit OS's here: [url="http://www.asio4all.com/"]http://www.asio4all.com/[/url] and Reaper v4.402 here: [url="http://www.reaper.fm/download.php"]http://www.reaper.fm/download.php[/url] Must say Reaper runs very well on the Tosh - its got 6GB of RAM to play with but TBH haven't pushed it in the extreme yet. Maybe the mix comp is just the thing to see if I can push it to its limits. Another addition on the laptop is the HDMI out which lets me run the 24" TV as a second display - handy for stacking all the lanes on it. Anyway hope this has been helpful ATB, Bottle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 Ive just started running reaper on a new windows 8 machine , it handles it really well , very smooth hardly any clicking disrupting the sound when playing and the FX seem to load instantly , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldG Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 You shouldn't get any clicks at all,Lurks... It this a laptop ? If so, start by disabling power saving and remove the battery,also manually turn off WiFi. You could switch off the fancy metro pish - that'll make it fly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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