Chris Gowland Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 I'm running Windows 7 and Sonar X3. I plan to upgrade both - Windows 10 and new Cakewalk. Are there any reasons to do either one first? I'm also reliant on an aging Presonus Firepod and hoping all these will behave well in Windows 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul G Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Hi Chris. You'll want to check if the Presonus has Win10 drivers. Good luck! Paul 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Vere Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 (edited) Always update your OS before installing the software. I also recommend after you update the OS run windows updates a few times to PU stray updates that don't stick the first few times. Then update all the drivers for any hardware especially your audio interface directly from manufactures web sites. If you have a special video card do this as well, Windows generic drivers suck. I update my VST's like Addictive drums and I make sure everything is activated and updated. Then I install basic versions of Sonar 8.5 , X3 and the last release of SPLAT. That seems to cover all my stuff that came in the past. They take up very little room. Last thing is Bandlab Assistant and Cakewalk. As far as old audio interfaces go,, all of mine are getting old, some are 12 years old, and all work real good under W10. Edited April 19, 2020 by John Vere 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonD Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 (edited) Do you know for a fact that the Firepod works well with Win 10? I doubt there are Win 10-specific drivers for the Firepod, but that doesn't mean it won't work with Win 7/8 drivers under Win 10. So research that first (Obviously there's no point in updating the software if your Firepod won't work with the new O.S.). Edited April 19, 2020 by JonD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 5 years into it, I would be very surprised if there were NOT any W10 drivers yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonD Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 (edited) 20 hours ago, bdickens said: 5 years into it, I would be very surprised if there were NOT any W10 drivers yet. Why? Many HW manufacturers stop driver development on their discontinued products. Presonus happens to be one of them. https://www.presonus.com/products/fp10/downloads Note that the last supported O.S. was Windows 7. Again, that doesn't mean the last released driver won't work under Win 8.1 or Win 10. It's certainly worth trying if you have a way to restore to a backed up system image if things go south. Edited April 20, 2020 by JonD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Didn't realize that interface was discontinued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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