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"Here Comes the Sun" - The Beatles

Id say, go for the dirty install (Since you have a backup machine anyway) and see if everything works as it sould. If not, then blow it away and do aclean install. Im skeptical of dirty installs going back to Win98 and how bad that was if you attempted a dirty install but M$ seems to really have their sh!t together on this one.

i blew all partitions away, let the installer repartition the only drive in the system, and installed clean.  I don't keep any bits on the computer itself other than than the programs and apps, so no pain for me.  With a sick  system that was the smart choice,  so the new OS could just remap the drivers and internal hardware.  No driver woes at all other than the VS-700, which was easy enough. 

I did have to crawl the volumes on the SAN (iSCSI mounts) and change the NTFS permissions to the new user entity, but that was as hard as it got.  That volume was built on a much earlier WIndows 7 machine and the new system was having trouble getting write permissions, but that was more or less expected behaviour.

My Mac works perfectly for everything I do...

except CbB

BUT I also refuse to upgrade to Catalina for EXACTLY the reasons you list...And I agree, unless Bandlab feels the need to expand thier user base to a bunch of GarageBand users,  I don't see the upside. The online stuff can be used with Logic or GarbageBand...

That's awesome.  Remember to always learn form your mistakes, and never repeat your mistakes but always move on to bigger, bolder and more innovative mistakes,

At this point in my career, my mistakes are world class,

Thanks for the tips...Done, Done and Done - UEFI was actually easier than getting legacy BIOS to work properly on this particular motherboard - I believe they were emulating the legacy mode and the UEFI is native. In any event, no worries there,  Exclusions set up and logging disabled.  Anything else? (I'm icing my hand down after risking CT disabling all the logging, but will be back to it soon...) 

4 hours ago, hockeyjx said:

I have built many of both AMD and Intel systems over the years, but always seemed to have weird Gremlins in a DAW system with AMD. That was a while ago, but when you get something that works well (as in my case, Intel-based systems), you stick with it.

However, I know the bakers have had a relationship with Intel over the years. I'm not sure they do currently, but knowing they were working with them made my decision easy on which to go with.

They were dating??

IT seems there was this bar owner. He had booked a stellar act and put out a lot of advertising for his big new years eve event.  That day, the booking agent calls him and tell him the band he booked could not make it. The bar owner started to freak out and told the agent "Look, I need live music tonight...sdo you have ANYONE else?"

The booking agent paused and said "Wellll..I have one act. They are really good, but a little weird...a two piece act...an accordion player and a banjo player. Kind of a dancable world beat polka thing. You gotta hear it to believe it, but they are great...and  so far as I know, they are the last act available for tonight".

The bar owner had never heard of a band consisting of just banjo and accordion, seeing no other option, said "Well, OK...Anything is better than nothing..."

The musicians showed up, set up their gear, hit the stage at the appointed time...and proceeded to absolutely tear the roof off the place. The place was jumpin' the drinks were flowin', and the bar had it's best night ever. 

At the end of the night, the bar owner paid the band out, He was so thrilled that he had an idea "Hey guys...You know, that was some of the best live music we've ever had here. I'd like to make this an annual thing.  Can I go ahead and book you for next new years eve right now?"

The accordion player and the banjo player stepped aside and huddled for a second as they discussed the offer. Finally, the banjo player came back to the bar owner and asked "Can we leave our stuff set up?"

1 hour ago, John Vere said:

Stereo tracks are for MP3 players. 

I might have a stereo track for a vintage outboard synth or a guitar processor but mono is the only way to really control a mix. Even when there is a stereo miking involved. 

AMEN.

Even my "Stereo" mic gets 2 mono tracks...They meet later in the mixdown on a buss. Much more control over spacial characteristics, ability to eq for the cymbals etc. Only things that get a stereo track are instruments that actually emit stereo

I think you need to set the driver to show mono channels first, if you havent

I wish I could apply friendly names to each side...Just cosmetic but it would be even friendlier...

"Rock the Casbah" - The Clash

Yup - was going to say exactly the same.   Low RMS can be correctted in post and that signal just looks way too hot to me.  Aim for around -15 dB RMS tracking but don't sweat if it is lower so long as the needle is moving and you are somewhere in the neighborhood.  Make an unhappy face if it ever hits anything above -5 dB when tracking. This is backwards from an analog recording system where you start to lose nuance if underpowered. Digital makes it easy!

It would be really smart to take an afternoon and truck over to YouTube for as many of Creative Sauces tutorials as possible but start with this one:

tee hee hee

hmmm...connection?

Anarchy X - Queensrÿche

Thinking mans metal...

"Summertime" - Billie Holiday

I did it.  In the course of integrating a Octa-Capture into the rig, I hit an insurmountable problem on my olde and heretofore rock stable Win 7 install - I just could not get the VS-700R to play nice with the Octa-Capture. Either device worked great separately, but when I would enable VS-expand to sync them together the timing would go way off and anything I tried to playback would crash almost immediately. LOTS of troubleshooting and RTFMing convinced me that I had it all set up and cabled correctly but the problem persisted.  Eventually my USB ports themselves started acting wonky so the system would often completely lose the keyboard and mouse. System restores, driver updates for everything in the system followed, a lot of buffer twiddling did not clear the issue.

I'd been reluctant to upgrade because of the reputation Win10 has for tracking data and upgrades that are not, but with "The Desk" unstable, it was worth a shot.  Worst case I could blow it away and do a Win 7 reinstall. Since all my data lives on the storage network and not within the PeeCee, there wasn't any risk to my bits, just the fear that the driver hack wouldn't work and the VS-700 would be unusable.  Either way, I figured a re-image was the next step, so I installed Win10 Pro, edited the VS-700 driver per the instructions in the old forum, and tried again...

And it works! Yesterday starting around 2:00 PM I did the install with all network connectivity physically disconnected to keep Microsoft from insisting on a Microsoft account, went through and toggled every privacy setting I could find to my level of paranoia, brought it online, watched it's behavior at the firewall for traffic that would trigger aforementioned paranoia..All good.  The same tracks now are working with the VS-expand...getting to my happy place of being able to use those Auto-sense VS preamps in the Octa without having to re-cable all the monitoring stuff  that runs from the VS-700R.  A few hours to reinstall all the Sonar versions for the VSTs, then CbB and the rest of my plug ins, and we're back to work this morning.

Probably in a few months I'll question my hesitancy to upgrade for so long...but as we like to say in the infosec dodge..."Just being paranoid doesn't make you wrong, just tedious"

"House of Pain" - Faster Pussycat 

(cats)

"Skin Tight" - Ohio Players

I wonder how much "Action" they got from that album title...

Booker T. & The MG's - Time Is Tight

Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn!

Dr. Feelgood - Mötley Crüe 

"Heavy Duty" - Spinal Tap

(Video is just a picture of the album cover...)

26 minutes ago, Hidden Symmetry said:

Yes very heavy, lifted that sucker many times along with B3's / Leslies up stairs too..

 

 

See??!! B3 + SVT means all gigs will be upstairs!

"The Weight" - The Band

(weight=burden)