Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 For Other O.S..

[Sequenzzer]

Hello all,

I've really grown accustomed to and know a lot of the ins and outs of Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 for all my editing/sequencing needs...I am currently doing all my editing and playing from a WinXP laptop running CPA9 to drive all my outbound sound modules and drum machines,etc which works great,I don't use any sounds from the internal soundcard since it's so old and the sounds are really bad on it.

My dilemma is that now I want to purchase an up to date laptop..

One reason for the new buy is being a bigger screen for lyrics,another reason is it's got an outstanding soundcard in it...I want to start utilizing the soundcard in that laptop in addition to still using my outboard sound modules and other external gear.

BUT this comes brand new with Windows 10 preloaded as a operating system!!!

Now,not really wanting OR NEEDING to learn a new sequencing program,what choice do I have now that CPA9 is only compatible with the XP Operating system? Certainly not Windows 10! I never had a majorissue with XP even to this point on the old laptop as far as music needs,it's done everything I've needed it to do.

Someone told me that there may be a "XP compatibility" program,like an old DOS or shell that runs within the main operating system,that you can run on Windows 10 beforehand that will allow your old programs that ran fine on XP to run on the newer OS. I've never heard of anything like that and wanting to know if any of you out there have heard of that scenario...If it's true,how does that work?

I suppose if I have no other choice but to upgrade my sequencing program,which one would be the easiest to learn? I would also like to know which one is closest in operation to CPA 9,since my learning curve will be not as steep if I find it's got a lot of features that are the same or close to the same as Pro Audio 9. Anyone out there with any tips or suggestions on what would be the most appropriate action given what I've said so far? I'm certainly not looking for something with tons of bells and whistles on it,I am perfectly happy with what I have now,but wanting to use some sounds from a decent soundcard in addition to my outboard modules.

Buying a newer laptop is definitely going to happen in the near future,I just want to know if I could get around running Pro Audio on the new laptop,or the best sequencing program to get and upgrade to to install on the new laptop.

I could always continue my editing on the old laptop with winxp and pro audio 9,and then transfer the files to the new laptop when I've completed editing and such,but I would prefer to do everything on one computer....Learning a new piece of software is not off the table,just don't want to be completely baffled with not knowing how to move around on the new software...I don't know what sequencing program came immediately after CPA 9,was that Sonar?...would that be my best choice? if so,which specific,particular version of Sonar if you don't mind?

Thanks again for reading and for any suggestions or response to my situation.

Take Care

Mike

[freeway]

Hi Mike

If you have patience I'm sure you can get CWA9 to work on Win 10 the reason I say this was I was told that no way would it work on Win 7 and I've been using it everyday since I upgraded from XP. Now having said that I haven't obviously tried it on Win10 as I don't have it yet and that's one of the reasons I'm wary about upgrading but I can't see it not working when it works on Win 7 def worth trying anyway. We had a topic a while back about this I'll try and dig it out and send you the link of how I managed it ok

I like you had various versions of Sonar and couldn't get used to the interface and duly switched back although Sonar can load vst's and pro audio can't but otherwise there's not much of a diff unless your into way more than just editing midis .

Rgds

Barry

[dagman]

Mate I am currently running Cakewalk 9 and Windows 10 without any issue?

Cheers,
Darren

[weeo]

Interesting, I updated to Windows 10 and couldn't get Cakewalk 9 to work.
I recently bought a new laptop with Windows 7 pre installed and it works fine.
Maybe i'll try 10 again, there may have been updates that have sorted out the problem.

I'll let you know
Eddie

[Sequenzzer]

Thats great input guys,thank you all for your input...I'm excited Darren to hear you say that statement,so the laptop is already ordered and on the way,fingers crossed,I'll let you all know how it fans out with the install..

Thanks again guys

Take Care

Mike

[weeo]

Update---just installed Windows 10 and Cakewalk pro 9 is working fine .

[Sequenzzer]

That's great news,Eddie! You've eased my worries...Thanks much for posting an update and checking it out. I thought for sure there would be some issues with it not installing,loading problems,or perhaps some of the features not working,very happy now I don't have to dive into a 200+ page manual for one of the Sonar brothers,but since I'm diving more into the soundfont/vsti department in small baby steps,I may be checking out one of the lower class ones such as X3 in the future perhaps.

Thanks again Eddie

Take Care

Mike

[weeo]

Further update -- Although all programmes including Cakewalk 9 worked fine, I found that I don't like windows 10.
Maybe I should give it more time, but It is complicated to use, and I found it hard to do simple tasks. Search for files , e mail etc
So I've went back to what I'm more comfortable with Windows 7

[freeway]

Me too Eddie maybe it's an age thing as my daughter recently upgraded and loves the new layout

Sometime changing just for the sake of it is not such a good idea either

Barry

[weeo]

Thank goodness, Barry, I thought I was the only one. lol .
My granddaughter likes it as well so it must be an age thing right enough .

[Sequenzzer]

Just an update guys...My laptop arrived and CPA 9 was the first thing to go on it...No problems at all,driver issues,blue screen stuff,etc....none of that! Just have to move my .ins files over since I access specific soundbanks on my roland fantom...

Thanks to all of you for your input...I've downloaded Cakewalk's top of the line Sonar Platinum,but not sure if I want to go that big and try something new just for the sake of learning it,but it's enticing to me seeing all that the program can do indeed.


Take Care

Mike