I'm not so sure about this.

Both Cakewalk and ProTools were developed in the late 80's by competing companies, Twelve Tone Systems (then Gibson, then BandLab) and Digidesign (now with Avid Technologies) respectively. As far as I know, neither was the precursor to the other, although they may have "borrowed" extensively from each other as features and technology progressed over the years.

Windows XP support ended on April 8th 2014. As a result, Microsoft no longer issues patches or security updates. Due to that, its become somewhat of a "hackers" dream particularly if the computer is used on the internet. Not only that, but as time goes on you may find that newer programs cannot or will not run on XP. Particularly if you get into the 32 bit versus 64 bit arena....Windows XP was 32 bit whereas Windows XP Professional was 64 bit as I remember.

From your "sig", you're running Win 10...one of the most stable and secure Windows OS's yet to be released. Yes, there is the constant forced update issues with Win 10 but I'm willing to trade that off for the security it offers. And, I have no latency or other issues

In my opinion, and mine only, I don't think this engineer is "shooting straight" with you. Yes, there are many people who use XP for recording, several here on the forum do exactly that. But since you already have a Intel i5 processor, are running Win 10 and using a recent interface, stepping back to an older build seems pointless.

It kinda reminds me that he wants you to conform to him and his ways rather than helping you get ahead....but then again that's just me. I could be wrong.

Jeff

Win11, Intel i7 7700K 4.2Ghz, 32Gb RAM, 2x1Tb HD, 500Gb NVMe, BIAB/RB 2025, MOTU 828MK3 audio, MOTU Midi Express, Yamaha Montage 7, DX7II, TX802, Motif XS Rack, Roland Fantom XR Rack, Oberheim Matrix 1000, VoiceLive3 Extreme, Kontakt 6, SampleTank 4.3