Started/suffered with BIAB on floppies and WIN 3.1 back in the
late 1990's.Since I'm retired recently, I finally might have time
to upgrade from version 2008.5. But this new activation cxxp
and all the workarounds mentioned in the forums makes me nervous
like Don Knotts (but that's for another post)!

What I noticed is that the new GUI has a thru button, but no
MSB bank select in sight anywhere. In the new GUI video the
thru button is mentioned but not explained (does another line
show up in the new mixer under soloist?). I use the thru channel
and MSB a lot with my Ketron SD2. On forum I see mention of a
hot-key to get to the old mixer, but I'm still curious about the
thru button and wondering if MSB is available @new mixer.

As you can see below I'm still using WIN XP. When I change
would you suggest WIN7 rather than WIN8 (got used to WIN7
on a friends laptop recently). Seems like you have to hunt
things down more in WIN7 vs WIN XP, and another friend thinks
that WIN8 is even worse!

Leeman

Dell Inspiron 1501 AMD64-AthlonX2 2GB(maxed)WIN XP
Edirol: UA-4FX interface, M10-DX mixer
Ketron:SD2
Lexicon:MRC
Roland:A50 midiboard,DR660 drum machine,MKS-20,MKS-30,MKS-70,
D550 modules, M-120 mixer
Yamaha:TX802 module
TC Helicon:HarmonyM
Oberheim:Drummer