31 Jul 2015
Ostermilk wrote:PGR wrote:Is there any compatibility information for Reason and Windows 10 from Propellerheads? Should we upgrade today?
I've got a sneaking suspision that 8.3 is more in tune with Windows 10 than it is with any earlier version. Devs such as the Props will have been using the latest build tools and frameworks which would have all been '10 aware' for quite some time.
I've been running Reason on a dual boot since some fairly early Insider preview 10 builds and it hasn't put a foot wrong as yet. Audio drivers may well be another issue. I'm using a Roland I/F and there isn't an official driver for that as yet but I cheated the 8.1 installer for that and apart from the installer it works fine.
So you might want hold off until your ancilliary equipment becomes 10 compliant and not because Reason might be an issue. It isn't AFAICT.
Hence we've ungraded two laptops here already but my main 'Studio PC' is still running W7 as it ain't broke, although I'm running 10 on a dual boot alongside my primary 7 partition in order to cautiously move toward the direction of W10 at my leisure.
After upgrading to Windows 10 I had an issue with my Cakewalk UA-25 EX Audio/MIDI interface. I wasn't able to reinstall it with the latest driver for Windows 8/8.1 (no driver for Windows 10 yet) downloaded from Roland/Cakewalk website. Funnily, I was able to cheat it with an old driver for Windows Vista 64-bit which came on CD with the product. Apart from that, everything works smoothly (Raeson 8.3, Studio One 3, Reaper and a couple of VST plugins.
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