Really returning home

[bassdude]

After a super long time of not being involved in anything scope and selling up the business and equipment including a lot of vintage valve mics, preamps and compressors etc (but I kept the amp, near field monitors and scope cards), I have decided to rebuild the DAW. And I mean going back to winxp 32bit and scope 4 to try and get back all my original plugins that I bought over the years. Just wanted to see if I can tighten up and just dabble in electronic music after only working in the live space. Wish me luck I guess

[valis]

You can run 32bit Scope on a 64bit system, and install them both side by side. Food for thought.

[garyb]

good luck!


-btw- to run in a 64bit world, you need v5.1 or v7....

[valis]

Highly suggested to just go v7 and Win11 64bit at this point. Install 32bit & 64bit Scope both.

This vastly simplifies the choice of hardware and maintenance in this era.

[bassdude]

Thanks for the ideas. When updating to win 7 and then 10, the system seemed a little less stable as I remembered it to be? The PC is old, so as I still have all of the previous versions of scope, I thought I would I go back to an earlier build and see what happens. I remember being hardcore about stripping out unnecessary background processes in windows to get it right down to a minimum install and having long recording/mixing sessions (without having embarrassing issues in front of people). It could be the cards are just getting too old as well (caps). I'll only be dabbling for fun anyway!

[valis]

WinXP needs that tuning. Win10/11 not so much. I pretty much disable the Widgets on taskbar (news etc), Copilot and a few other things (OneDrive) and then disable synching settings with O&O ShutUp10 and set my power profile to high performance on the PCI system (I have a PCI and Xite system, each separate) and that's it.

[Gordon Gekko]

Yeah disable onedrive, I realized that my Documents folder was a on it, and yeah it kept spamming me with the urge to upgrade to a payable plan…