I just can't see the benefit of moving to ARM at this stage. I wasn't planning on moving to it but Microsoft did it for me. :headbang: So, from my point of view I'm not choosing it, but I'm interested in getting it to work if it's now the flagship Surface product, and if that's going to be ...

Anyway, I share my findings here:

https://youtu.be/DihkTujuQzg

I am buoyed and delighted by the positivity 😁 I will see if I can dig any info out of people I know in the business. I also get the sense that AI is desperately important to these companies. I should probably try to find out why. I thought it was a bit of a curiosity or at best a better version of Co ...

Hello lovely people, it's been a while! I may have pivoted away from building computers but I still dabble in the Microsoft Surface Pro platform. It seems that Microsoft snuck out the Intel-based Pro 10 a few weeks back and then immediately followed it up with the Pro 11 last week. The thing is that ...

Awww that's a nice photo. Glad you had a good time! Sorry for my puzzlement, i have terrible recall for things/people. For anyone interested, Finlay was using a pair of Elektron boxes, Digitakts I think which he was adding to live and manipulating. It was some kind of synth-pop-post-punk - he's like ...

Just to note that anyone in need of tickets to the daytime please drop me a line via any means and i'll stick you on my growing returns list. I can't promise I can get you in but I'll do my best to match people up with unused or returned tickets. There's still room for the evening which should be a ...

I have the same experience :D One of the best things for me about Wind 10/11 is touchscreen : that's the only type desktop laptop I buy. Mouse what's that. Fingers only. Until you've tried Arturia's Yamaha CS80v on a touchscreen you haven't lived lol. Funny thing when I switch to my macbook and imac ...

Hugh Robjohns wrote: People don't tend to make purchase decisions based on the tech specs, it's much more on price, brand, hype and fashion...

And I am all about the fashion

No mention of the quality of the microphone pre amps. The ones on my Mk1 are very quiet but 6dB more gain would be handy. Have NI done this and if so are they still as quiet? Dave. Fair point Dave. I sat and stared at the mic inputs for a long time contemplating how I can review them to any useful ...

Wow, isn't that like a thousand years old? I remember selling those at Turnkey before the turn of the last millennia. Ran well on Windows 2000 if i remember. Soooo.... probably very little chance of Windows 10 drivers. I found this in a google search: http://michaelchagnon.com/aardvark/download.html ...

Pete Kaine wrote:

robinv wrote: If you're not rockin' the high 90's you're not trying hard enough

The computer industry equalivent of "If you're not redlining, you ain't headlining"?

Definitely.
That Dark Rock Pro 4 is a bit of a beast though - and a free screwdriver.

Pete Kaine wrote:Scythe Ninja 4 initially and managed 4.7GHz all core on that before it started to tip 80 degrees and I gave up.

If you're not rockin' the high 90's you're not trying hard enough

10 all the way. Performance is great, explorer, file handling and navigation superior to 7 (in my opinion) and you're looking into the future which, for me, is important. Whenever I have to repair a 7 based system it's always so long winded and clunky in comparison - it's funny what you put up with

johnny h wrote:It was shite anyway, didn't sound anything like a real 303

Well, i loved it. Match it up with a Phatboy and Windows 95 was actually making cool sounds.

Roland have told Propellerhead to stop messing with their stuff 21 years after the event.

Roland kill off the RB-338

This may help http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-am4-processor-family-leak-r7-1800x-flagship/ I'm just disappointed that the new AMD chips are the same size and shape of the old ones. I want something new and exciting like hexagonal, or star shaped - why not have them shaped like crystals that light up ...

It is potentially interesting. We've talked about having a slimmed down version of Windows for years - or some sort of Turbo button that ran only the things you wanted to do. Maybe this could actually be it...... although i'm sure some bright spark at Microsoft probably said "let's build in a three ...

#iwasPCgamingbeforeyouwereborn You'd have to go back good few years before Monkey Island for that to be the case! I can recall playing Zaxxon around the point of release, what was that? '85? Monkey Island would have been on PC - Zaxxon sounds very CBM64 to me in which case I go all the way back to ...

Pete Kaine wrote:
We used to call that a DOS prompt when I was a lad.

Ooo yeah, some of that EMM386.exe accessing expanded memory action to push things above 640k just to get Monkey Island to load. #iwasPCgamingbeforeyouwereborn

I'm sure I'll be happy with it once it's arrived. But stress-free? I've had a face like a smacked arse all day. PC world however are delivering the 4K TV I ordered today, tomorrow. Unfair comparison? Probably I feel your pain! But it's also an unfortunate time of year to order something custom made ...

(* Disclaimer time - not that I'm claiming that it'll work flawlessly on all TB3 out there before anyone spends money based on that statement, I'm certainly taking Focusrites warnings on-board and have indeed seen some issues in some rigs in prior testing, just that it happens to work on the ...

After a bit more testing it seems I can get down to about 5ms (not round-trip) on some projects others are still around 15-20 though. The only difference I can really see is some have plug-ins which seem to push up the activity on core 0 so the load isn't even. I guess my main concern is whether a ...

Also, I assume this positive little nugget: "Running in 64-bit only makes sure that you benefit from the most modern technology available" ...means that there's no inbuilt 32-bit bridging support. Though again, I could be wrong. That's right - they announced a while back that they were done with ...

Here you go:
https://youtu.be/b5OOvRErlEc

My favourite feature - a button that turns off the rack/media bay - flippin' genius!