"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
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On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 21:05:17 GMT, "Nick"
wrote:

FWIW, I have the Lynx Two and previously owned the Echo Layla 20. That's
not really a fair comparison because the newer Layla is probably better,
but
I certainly have been very happy with the sound quality of the Lynx Two.

I have had frequent problems with Windows drivers for both though, which
can
really be maddening. I would rate the hardware for Lynx A+ and for Layla
B.
I would rate the software driver support for both companies a D.

What problems?

A wide variety of problems from mere quirkiness to not working at all.

Are you using reasonably modern hardware and Windows
XP?

Yes. I upgrade my computer every 3 years.

It is impossible to know if such problems are the driver, the audio
software, or something else. I suspect the drivers.

--Nick

In article writes:

What problems?
A wide variety of problems from mere quirkiness to not working at all.
Are you using reasonably modern hardware and Windows
XP?

Yes. I upgrade my computer every 3 years.

Ah, that's your problem. Leave it alone if it's working. I upgrade my
computers when they break which, unfortunately, hasn't been often
enough lately.


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In article
writes:

What problems?
A wide variety of problems from mere quirkiness to not working at all.
Are you using reasonably modern hardware and Windows
XP?

Yes. I upgrade my computer every 3 years.

Ah, that's your problem.

Yes I know. Unfortunately I have to make a living using the computer for
other things, like programming. Seems like everytime I get a Windows
upgrade or install much of anything, it breaks the music applications. I've
gotten pretty good at getting things working though there have been times
where I've had to start over with a fresh install of everything.

--Nick

In article writes:

Unfortunately I have to make a living using the computer for
other things, like programming. Seems like everytime I get a Windows
upgrade or install much of anything, it breaks the music applications.

Just do fifteen minutes worth of work for a programming client, take
the money for that job, and buy yourself another computer so you won't
have to mess up your music applications when you mess with the work
computer. You're worth it, and think of the time you'll save.


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In article znr1097014723k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:

In article writes:

Unfortunately I have to make a living using the computer for
other things, like programming. Seems like everytime I get a Windows
upgrade or install much of anything, it breaks the music applications.

Just do fifteen minutes worth of work for a programming client, take
the money for that job, and buy yourself another computer so you won't
have to mess up your music applications when you mess with the work
computer. You're worth it, and think of the time you'll save.

Or, just get a second disk and make your system dual-boot. Boot from one
disk when you want a programming platform, boot from the other when you
want an audio workstation.
--scott

And I do feel sorry for anyone who is forced to program on Windows, but
it probably beats working for Christian radio....

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
...
And I do feel sorry for anyone who is forced to program on Windows, but
it probably beats working for Christian radio....

Up until about March of 2000, it was a fantastic day job/career. Now it's
not.

--Nick

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:07:04 GMT, "Nick"
wrote:

And I do feel sorry for anyone who is forced to program on Windows, but
it probably beats working for Christian radio....

Up until about March of 2000, it was a fantastic day job/career. Now it's
not.

Were they ****ed off because Armageddon, or whatever they call it,
didn't arrive on cue for the Millennium?

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In article znr1097014723k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:

In article writes:

Unfortunately I have to make a living using the computer for
other things, like programming. Seems like everytime I get a Windows
upgrade or install much of anything, it breaks the music applications.

Just do fifteen minutes worth of work for a programming client, take
the money for that job, and buy yourself another computer so you won't
have to mess up your music applications when you mess with the work
computer. You're worth it, and think of the time you'll save.

Or, just get a second disk and make your system dual-boot. Boot from one
disk when you want a programming platform, boot from the other when you
want an audio workstation.
--scott

And I do feel sorry for anyone who is forced to program on Windows, but
it probably beats working for Christian radio....

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

In article writes:

Unfortunately I have to make a living using the computer for
other things, like programming. Seems like everytime I get a Windows
upgrade or install much of anything, it breaks the music applications.

Just do fifteen minutes worth of work for a programming client, take
the money for that job, and buy yourself another computer so you won't
have to mess up your music applications when you mess with the work
computer. You're worth it, and think of the time you'll save.


--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

"Nick" wrote in message
et...
"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
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In article
writes:

What problems?
A wide variety of problems from mere quirkiness to not working at all.
Are you using reasonably modern hardware and Windows
XP?

Yes. I upgrade my computer every 3 years.

Ah, that's your problem.

Yes I know. Unfortunately I have to make a living using the computer for
other things, like programming. Seems like everytime I get a Windows
upgrade or install much of anything, it breaks the music applications.
I've
gotten pretty good at getting things working though there have been times
where I've had to start over with a fresh install of everything.

--Nick


Why is that a bad thing? Not commenting on your situation specifically,
Nick, but people are really adverse to fresh installs of windows and I
pretty much look at it as maintenance. It's been years since I've had the
same install on one of my own machines for more than six months. Windows in
particular degenerates as time passes.

jb

In article writes:

people are really adverse to fresh installs of windows and I
pretty much look at it as maintenance. It's been years since I've had the
same install on one of my own machines for more than six months. Windows in
particular degenerates as time passes.

Trust, mainly. I know that it's supposed to be possible to "reinstall
Windows" without changing anything else, but I don't want to try it
unless it's the last resort. I don't want it to fail and to have to
re-install all of my software, and then re-configure it for the
familiar paths and user interface preferences. I don't even remember
everything I have installed, there have been successive updates that
I'd have to find and perform.

Another thing is that while ever copy of Windows that I have here is a
legitimate, OEM-licensed version, all the copies all "restoration"
disks that, when you install from them, bring the computer back to the
original factory configuration. I'm not sure if you can do anything
but a complete installation. I haven't played with it. One of these
days I'm going to put together a fresh computer from parts, try
running one of those restoration disks on it, and see if it says "Go
to hell, this ain't a Dell!" Maybe if it doesn't, I'll have more
confidence in "reinstalling Windows" but until then, I don't want to
mess around with working computers. And you don't always learn the
right things by fixing a broken computer.


It would be better if Windows didn't "degenerate" as time passes.
There's no reason for this to happen on its own, it's a function of
installing other software (or at least it SHOULD be, if it occurs at
all). I have three computers here, one with Win98SE, one with Win2000,
and one with WinXP Home. So far I've not encountered any problems that
have tempted me to do a re-installation.

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I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
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On 6 Oct 2004 09:17:08 -0400, (Mike Rivers) wrote:

Trust, mainly. I know that it's supposed to be possible to "reinstall
Windows" without changing anything else, but I don't want to try it
unless it's the last resort. I don't want it to fail and to have to
re-install all of my software, and then re-configure it for the
familiar paths and user interface preferences. I don't even remember
everything I have installed, there have been successive updates that
I'd have to find and perform.

If you get problems, that isn't what you want. You want a fresh
install onto a cleanly-formatted partition.


Another thing is that while ever copy of Windows that I have here is a
legitimate, OEM-licensed version, all the copies all "restoration"
disks that, when you install from them, bring the computer back to the
original factory configuration. I'm not sure if you can do anything
but a complete installation. I haven't played with it. One of these
days I'm going to put together a fresh computer from parts, try
running one of those restoration disks on it, and see if it says "Go
to hell, this ain't a Dell!" Maybe if it doesn't, I'll have more
confidence in "reinstalling Windows" but until then, I don't want to
mess around with working computers. And you don't always learn the
right things by fixing a broken computer.


If you have one of these, it's a disk image of a Windows setup as
installed on that particular hardware. If you're lucky, it takes you
to a point in Windows installation just before "detecting hardware"
and although any necessary drivers for that machine are included, you
can provide others. This should work on other machines. I've seen
IBM machines that restore in this way.

More likely, it's an image of a finished installation, including
installed software. This MAY work on other hardware, but you can't
really complain if it doesn't.


It would be better if Windows didn't "degenerate" as time passes.
There's no reason for this to happen on its own, it's a function of
installing other software (or at least it SHOULD be, if it occurs at
all). I have three computers here, one with Win98SE, one with Win2000,
and one with WinXP Home. So far I've not encountered any problems that
have tempted me to do a re-installation.

Excellent! Either you're very lucky, or your computers aren't music
production tools. If they were, you'd probably have taken much more
interest in specifying and maintaining them :-)


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In article writes:

Trust, mainly. I know that it's supposed to be possible to "reinstall
Windows" without changing anything else

If you get problems, that isn't what you want. You want a fresh
install onto a cleanly-formatted partition.

That would require re-installing all of my applications. They're not
broken so I shouldn't have to re-install them.

I suppose that if I was really diligent (how many of you are there?) I
should install ALL applications on a different partition than Windows
so I could bang on Windows all I wanted and once it's running, all the
applications will come up as they were. But that's assuming that
things that characterize the applications aren't stored on the Windows
partition - like in the Registry, or in the /system directory. There
may be a way of getting around that (can the Registry be on a
different partition than the rest of Windows)

In any case, this is more than I want to learn about the inner
workings of computers.

I have three computers here, one with Win98SE, one with Win2000,
and one with WinXP Home. So far I've not encountered any problems that
have tempted me to do a re-installation.

Excellent! Either you're very lucky, or your computers aren't music
production tools. If they were, you'd probably have taken much more
interest in specifying and maintaining them :-)

One is exclusively for music - the Win98 one. But I don't load it down
with gadgets. I use one program to edit stereo files, and another
program to write CDs. I have a copy of Word on there to take notes,
and Excel to keep track of expenses during session, but it's not on
the Internet and I don't install things on it that don't need to be on
it. The other two computers are more general purpose, though I have
the same audio applications installed on them and use them
occasionally, the desktop (win2000) hardly serious because I use the
internal sound card that came with the computer.

The laptop (WinXP) has a decent Digigram sound card and I consider
that to be my "backup" audio computer, and the one I use when I have
something to test for a review. I can carry that into the studio, hook
up real audio hardware top it, and not take a chance messing up the
working studio computer. WinXP is a little better about cleanly
uninstalling things than earlier versions so I've been reasonably
successful with keeping that one fairly clean. But it does have a
bunch of stuff installed on it that I've downloaded and use
occaisonally so I try to keep a CD of downloaded stuff reasonably
current in case I have to install it somewhere else (or again on the
same computer).


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I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

"Nick" wrote in message
et...
"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
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In article
writes:

What problems?
A wide variety of problems from mere quirkiness to not working at all.
Are you using reasonably modern hardware and Windows
XP?

Yes. I upgrade my computer every 3 years.

Ah, that's your problem.

Yes I know. Unfortunately I have to make a living using the computer for
other things, like programming. Seems like everytime I get a Windows
upgrade or install much of anything, it breaks the music applications.
I've
gotten pretty good at getting things working though there have been times
where I've had to start over with a fresh install of everything.

--Nick


Why is that a bad thing? Not commenting on your situation specifically,
Nick, but people are really adverse to fresh installs of windows and I
pretty much look at it as maintenance. It's been years since I've had the
same install on one of my own machines for more than six months. Windows in
particular degenerates as time passes.

jb

"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
news:znr1096916320k@trad...

In article
writes:

What problems?
A wide variety of problems from mere quirkiness to not working at all.
Are you using reasonably modern hardware and Windows
XP?

Yes. I upgrade my computer every 3 years.

Ah, that's your problem.

Yes I know. Unfortunately I have to make a living using the computer for
other things, like programming. Seems like everytime I get a Windows
upgrade or install much of anything, it breaks the music applications. I've
gotten pretty good at getting things working though there have been times
where I've had to start over with a fresh install of everything.

--Nick

In article writes:

What problems?
A wide variety of problems from mere quirkiness to not working at all.
Are you using reasonably modern hardware and Windows
XP?

Yes. I upgrade my computer every 3 years.

Ah, that's your problem. Leave it alone if it's working. I upgrade my
computers when they break which, unfortunately, hasn't been often
enough lately.


--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo