You're plenty smart enough, Frank. This stuff makes almost everbody's eyes glaze over including mine. I am just now switching over from my tried and true but old P4 XP machine to my new super hot Athlon 6 core running Win 7 64 bit. I did not know about that difference when rendering under Win 7, I haven't set up my audio stuff yet, still working on my household computer things and even that is messing with me but I'm getting there. All you can do is keep plugging away and ask questions here. This is the most helpful musicians forum on the net.

A big thing to always keep at the top of your thoughts as you work through this is we are using highly specialized programs that the big computer makers could care less about. Semi pro or pro audio production using a PC is a very small percentage of the PC market and while it will work just fine and you will produce great sounding music, you're basically on your own. We get no support at all from PC makers. You have to turn yourself into a computer nerd and I'm learning that while I'm a pretty good XP nerd, I have a lot to learn about Win 7.

Oh, and it's always Rharv's fault, didn't you know that?

Bob

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