Bob's impending transition of SawStudio to 64 bit has caused me to finally give up WinXP, which ultimately led to my building a new studio machine, and because the hardware is really NEW, Win7 can't support it, thus I was forced to Windows 10, of which I got the "pro" version.
I won't go into all of the details of why Win10 makes trouble for many of us, just a part where I have made some progress.
As happens to some of us, for me the move to Windows 10 broke some things that formerly worked, causing inconvenience in one case and complete failure in another.
My audio interface in the studio is the MOTU 2408 MKIII connected to a 424 PCIe card. Under XP, it just worked. On the new Win10 machine, every time I opened SawStudio I had to do a little dance with the audio hardware settings before starting a session. I would go to Options > driver model, and it would show with the ASIO selection the warning "unrecognized data format". I would select the ASIO option, select the MOTU interface in the dropdown list, and after that it would be OK.
My MIDI interface was part of my Behringer BCF2000. Going to Win10 just flat broke it. The driver for the BCF2000 will work in Win7 64 bit (I set this up on a friend's computer), but absolutely NOT in Win10. This meant I not only lost my faders, I also lost my MIDI port.
The BCF unit can work by connecting it to a MIDI port (haven't tried this yet), but first I had to have a port to plug it into. I wanted multiple ports. The first thing I tried (because it was cheap) was some cheap Chinese branded thing from Amazon which came in DOA, so I returned it. After doing some research and figuring out how to pay for the new toy, I settled on the MOTU Micro Lite, which has 5 ports in and out and is powered by USB (no separate wall wart or power cable). I followed the instructions in the manual to install the device and its drivers.
It happens that MOTU has gone to some kind of unified driver package that covers various of its products, and when you run the install it finds the relevant device(s) and puts in the necessary stuff. When I ran it, I got a surprise: It popped up with a list of two items, the Micro Lite and my 424 card. There are no check boxes: it does all or nothing. So I said "what the heck" and went ahead. Then I ran some tests. The Micro Lite works exactly as it should so far.
The bonus is, the 424 card now works better. Apparently SawStudio now wakes up properly recognizing the data format of the ASIO driver, so I should not have to re-configure it on startup any more.
So, now I know two things that definitely "play nice" with Windows10. I hope this information will be useful to other folks here.
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