I can see the nightmare unfold.

(The devil is making me advocate)

Some users scour around to find an Xp machine because a whack of stuff won't run at all on Vista or any 64 bit machine.

So then you are going to need two versions of band in a box.

32 bit and 64 bit.

Right now, even with Win 7, 32 bit is an option.

But here, new users who are amateur musicians and not computer people have to decide all the current outlay of product, which is confusing at best, but then they have to decide 32 or 64 bit. Then they find out that band in a box won't use billy joe's taser plug in, and billy joe is NOT going to fix it for 64 and then they return the 64 bit for a 32 bit, only to find out that there is no 32 bit anything on Windows 9, so won't the forums be fun.

Now our newbie posts a problem.
But someone says, which version.
OK, then some one says which o/s.
OK, then some one asks which is it 32 or 64
Of course to some of the above our fearless new user to the forum, who may or may not have paid for anything, cannot figure out how to run dxdiag and doesn't know 8 from 64.

BUT again one central question remains.

What do I get, at the end of the day. My quad core system with the fancy video card, 10 gigs of memory, 1 TB hard drive, is running win 7 / 64 and is up to date.

I'm not against this for me, but if 2013 was 64 bit only 2/3 of the customers would be out of luck, that's my opinion.

So far neither question has been addressed.

What to I get? Speed is not an issue for me, but, make everything almost instantaneous, perhaps.

I really don't care.

We have cowbell, I just need a really good euphonium section. Then Eflat Tuba solos. After that the Bbb Tuba waltzes.

I'm hoping to get Hummel's tour de force on a rotary baritone (as a purist in E), then for tuba later. But I need more realistic backing tracks...LOL

@mal - of course I'm difficult to understand:
1. I live in the colonies.
2. I have used French as a first language for most of my life.
3. I watch some American tv.
4. I take more drugs that most musicians ever saw. In a week. Including psychotrippy stuff.

John Conley
Musica est vita