Layla24 still. Most of the plugins I have used/purchased are 64 and 32 bit. I had to export most of my SAW tracks into Reaper. I use IKM stuff, SGear, Kuassa and a few others.

Win7 drivers most of...

I dont understand all the unlove for the Win8. Been using it now for a year with no issues. I stopped using SAW and use Reaper now as the explorer plays nicely with IKM A3. I have zero complaints...

Ian, this is good topic because I have spilled beer, coffee and had a water line break too on my old machine and my Echoaudio Layla 24 has been through the gamut and still playing thank God. So...

I have been running Win8 for a while now on 64 bit. I run Reaper on it at 64 bit with no problems. I have all my IK stuff and SGear running on it. I also have SAW installed for backward compatibility...

I couldn't buy it. My kid would then never leave home. (He is 25 now at home)

Died this morning

I would put in what is newest as well. There is a cost difference if you buy at Best Buy but surf web for cabling. If you have long drops make sure length is desired or make own ends.

Some tweaks you see on web in registry for turning off the Metro do not work, install classic shell.

Tweaks are not necessary for things to work. I turn off unnecessary things. I also did the...

Sorry to see you hate it. It took a lot of tweaking but Win8 is rock solid here.
List: Scheduled Tasks, Services, Startup, Driver support, app support, normal BobL Win7 tweaks. Mine boots at 500MB...

Gbit is rarely needed on networks. So if you have 12mbps download speed on internet why on earth would you need Gbit. On any network as long as you are not exceeding 50% utilization you are in no...

It was just recently that I pointed out for like the 4th time to Echoaudio about Layla24 that I wanted to NOT hear the guitar and the plugin. They had replied to mute the input on the console. This...

Win8 will create a dual boot with 7 easily. The Disk Management needs just have room created for the Win8 install. I did my wife' laptop with same way. But not sure if a virus from her facebooking or...

From what I read you are correct. The USB or Firewire cannot be imported at 100% level. One must back off the import to negate noise. This might be untested blather from myself but since my card is...

Well in SAW there are a couple of things using A3 for me. If I use the record ready and have tape style input always on and go surfing throught the presets eventually I get buffer underuns. This is...

I'll get kicked for sayin it but the Amplitube 3 doesn't have the issues in Reaper that it does in SAW. All presets surf properly. No issues or delay buildups.

Well aware Bruce but they all do not do the job completely as you will find if doing the research as I have done.

Win8 has also been my best experience of a new OS. The IE10 is awesome. The system...

I understand completely carrotjaws, clean is great and as I stated some of the recording process is with or without tubes involved.

make sure to stop in the registry the WSCSVC which is the windows security center on 8 which goes to Akamai servers upon startup.

That one costs money. The Classic Shell does not

Well a tip is that besides normal services and startups one must also visit the Task Scheduler area. Win8 has many startup item tasks and overnight tasks. I have disabled some so far. I am also...

I think the most important thing is to get the sound right before importing. I have done some recordings on my Layla24 that left me knowing that the converters were great. The song Walking In Eden...

I run my 64 bit stuff in 64 bit app and 32 bit stuff in 32 bit app. Win8 once tweaked and I've done a lot is great OS.

On my issue I defintely found this was somehow related to EDL. Not sure how but the one I had from C: drive was deleted and all works properly. The one from my F: drive that was moved, not sure if I...

A Windows 8 anomoly: In Win8 I have SAW set for compat mode WinXP SP3 and when recording a EDL of tracks I inserted onto thumb drive and placed on another PC using XP SP3 (not8) and eventually just...

Buy Acronis for $35 as it works with Windows 8 too. Image your C: drive to another drive and the one you use, remove Acronis from. It needs have you reboot and then begins the imaging.