Windows 7 from the point of view of a musician

Windows 7 RC (which 7100) appeared on the network a long time ago, there were a lot of reviews, but for myself, as a musician, I couldn’t get anything out of them, so I hesitated to bet for a long time or not? Will the software I need work there or not?

System.

Testing was conducted on the "bare" computer, without any special equipment (except the midi-keyboard).
Mat. Fee: Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 (rev. 3.3).
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 Ghz.
Sound: built-in Realtek ALC883.
OS: Windows 7 RC (build 7100) Russian version.
Midi Keyboard: M-Audio KeyRig 49.

During testing, the following were also active: Casper, Daemon Tools, uTorrent, KMPlayer and all services and processes included by default.

From the software used:

1. Ableton Live 8.
2. Ableton Live 7.
3. Propellerheads Reason 4.
4. Adobe Audition 3.
5. Kontakt 2 + Prominy Clean Guitars (VST).
6. Toontrack ezDrummer (VST).
7. Guitar Rig 3 (VST).
8. Amplitube Metal (VST).
9. Amplitube Fender (VST).

From the above, everything works.
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Generally.

In general, the "Seven" decides. I liked the interface very much, the speed of work and stability is also excellent. For almost a week of work, “Windows” never “fell”, and did not even ask to send a report to some kind of mother there. The only thing she assumed was that some of the programs were “probably not properly installed,” but she could say that the program was installed correctly and there were no more disagreements.

Pros.

1. No trouble with the drivers. Windows found everything itself, and for the midi-keyboard it was not necessary to search for anything. Everything works out of the box.
2. There was no need for Asio4ALL drivers, if, for example, on Vista, when using the built-in (or clumsy external) sound card, we observed a weak delay, and sometimes nothing was observed at all, then everything is fine. Midi-keyboard also works with a bang. Tested on Reason 4, Live 7 and Live 8.
3. The bug with ReWire from Reason disappeared when it was impossible to connect it to anything. Previously treated with a patch.

Minuses.

1. In Live 8, not one plugin from Amplitube works - it does not "see" stupidly. Perhaps this is not a glitch of Windows, but the 8th Live.
2. Kontakt 2 works strangely, but again only in the 8th Live. The strangeness is manifested in the fact that despite the fact that the “banks” are loaded entirely during the game, some sounds are not lost.
3. When loading some banks in Guitar Rig 3, the host program hangs. Again, Live 8.

Total.

So what do we have? It is a lot of pluses, and minuses very doubtful, very much I doubt that it because of Windows. For those who still do not believe in Windows 7 and are frightened by the words Release Candidate, I can bring a couple more reasons - here is a list of non-musical software that I used on my machine. Everything works with a bang:
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009
- Daemon Tools Lite 4.30.4
- KMPlayer 2.9.4.1434
- AIMP 2 v2.51 Build 330
- uTorrent 1.8
- Sims 3 ^ _ ^
- Adobe Photoshop CS4
- Adobe FireWorks CS4
- CS Strike 1.6: D
- Google Chrome 2.0.172.28
- Microsoft Office 2007
- 1C Enterprise 7, 8
- QiP 8092

If you dig around on the Internet, you can read that Wavelab 5, Cubase 4 and many more work fine on the G-7. In general, I advise everyone to move to Windows 7;)

UPD Citizens are habra users, if not hard to write for what minusuete.