Is anyone using 6.5.1 on XP?

Cubase
#1

I have a musical colleague who runs 6.0.5 on XP.
Has anyone tried 6.5.1 on XP?
Does it work?

As for me I am using windows 7 64

First impressions:
Wow two synths I will actually use!
So far so good. Early days, but I have yet to encounter a problem.
Padshop does the trick for me and if I could import audio it would be perfect. Can you do this or is this something for the wishlist?
Retrologue is a great sounding analogue that seems like it is easy-ish to tweak and create your own sounds.
I have not yet tried working with the lanes. Has anyone any thoughts about this?

#2

Yes, I do,

Two problems:

  • Cannot import 320 Kbps MP3 files

Problem with MIDI timing on a VST instrument, after recording the first note starts at b.e. -2.1.1.104, so it won’t playback.

Regards,

Mark

#3

Presumably this problem was not there in 6.0.5?
I thought the timing issues were history?

#4

Indeed, it wasn’t.

I already asked support, their answer:

This is because you are running on XP, we don’t support that anymore.

Regards,

Mark

#5

How are you dealing with this Mark (I am on XP SP2 Cubase 6.05)? Were you able to roll back to 6.05?

#6

I think I can roll back. But I can live with this issues. I just convert an MP3 to a lower bitrate befor importing, and If I recorded a VST instrument, I manually change the starting point of the MIDI track.

#7

I don’t think midi timing is related to XP. Steiny just doesn’t support XP so thats the answer for all issues related to it. I use 6.5 on XP 64x and NO midi timing issues at all.

#8

So do I.

Do these have dodgy tags somewhere?
I ran across this, and it was caused by tagging…

#9

MIDI timing is an OLD issue, with lots of messages and a simple solution. If I remember right, it involves setting your preferences to use the system time for MIDI, or some such. Just search the board and you should find it.

#10

I use it in xp 32bit and also win 7 and have no problems with MIDI timing.