johnonguitar Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 So who is using their Helix with a laptop for either plugins, looping or any other combination? What sort of music do you play, what's your favourite plugins etc Anyone use any Native Instruments stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterHamm Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I don't have a photo, but I use my Helix Rack with Logic Pro X on my Mac Pro 13" It works fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arislaf Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 Helix, to mixcraft. Nothing more for guitar. Plugins: Sampletank 3, studio instruments of cakewalk, addictive drummer 2 and addictive keys. Also spark dubstep. Music: any kind. Laptop: turbox (clevo) with 2.4Ghz i7, 24gb ram, on windows 10 (for few more days, back to 7 after) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HonestOpinion Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Helix, to mixcraft. Nothing more for guitar. Plugins: Sampletank 3, studio instruments of cakewalk, addictive drummer 2 and addictive keys. Also spark dubstep. Music: any kind. Laptop: turbox (clevo) with 2.4Ghz i7, 24gb ram, on windows 10 (for few more days, back to 7 after) I'm curious, why back to Win 7? I am not big fan of Windows 10 but Windows "Mainstream Support" ended in 2015 for Win 7 and "Extended Support" ends in 2020. With that said, Windows 10 is so invasive that I can understand anyone rolling back, especially if they have older devices that don't play well with it. However, newer devices will inevitably end up with drivers that won't work on Win 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DunedinDragon Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 I'm curious, why back to Win 7? I am not big fan of Windows 10 but Windows "Mainstream Support" ended in 2015 for Win 7 and "Extended Support" ends in 2020. With that said, Windows 10 is so invasive that I can understand anyone rolling back, especially if they have older devices that don't play well with it. However, newer devices will inevitably end up with drivers that won't work on Win 7. I'm with you on that. I run a pretty dense setup with Sonar Platinum and I've got nothing but praise for the performance and stability of Windows 10. I came to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and I saw no difference at all performance-wise or stabilitiy-wise. Some things actually were more responsive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arislaf Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 I'm curious, why back to Win 7? I am not big fan of Windows 10 but Windows "Mainstream Support" ended in 2015 for Win 7 and "Extended Support" ends in 2020. With that said, Windows 10 is so invasive that I can understand anyone rolling back, especially if they have older devices that don't play well with it. However, newer devices will inevitably end up with drivers that won't work on Win 7. 2 reasons: 1: my emulator for playstation2 is not working. 2. my 2nd internal hard disk is always running on windows 10, and that activates the big fan. Too much noise all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncann Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 2 reasons: 1: my emulator for playstation2 is not working. 2. my 2nd internal hard disk is always running on windows 10, and that activates the big fan. Too much noise all the time. Can't help for the emulator, but there's gotta be one that works on Windows 10? But for the second, you should really get an ssd. Even a cheap one. And seeing as you have 24GB of memory, you could set up a ramdisk (softperfect) in combination with backup/mirroring software (syncback), directory junctions, and simple batch files, so that when you record it would be to memory to relieve wear on the ssd. The only downside is if your system crashes, you're at risk of losing data for that session. I've been using this setup for a long time on Windows 10 (and Windows 7 before that) and never had anything crash on me yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterHamm Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 +1000 on getting an SSD as a boot drive. Change my freakin' life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arislaf Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Can't help for the emulator, but there's gotta be one that works on Windows 10? But for the second, you should really get an ssd. Even a cheap one. And seeing as you have 24GB of memory, you could set up a ramdisk (softperfect) in combination with backup/mirroring software (syncback), directory junctions, and simple batch files, so that when you record it would be to memory to relieve wear on the ssd. The only downside is if your system crashes, you're at risk of losing data for that session. I've been using this setup for a long time on Windows 10 (and Windows 7 before that) and never had anything crash on me yet. +1000 on getting an SSD as a boot drive. Change my freakin' life. my first internal is an ssd. I run windows from this. Getting a second ssd as a secondary, will be very expensive since i am playing and installing large games in it. But thanks for the advice :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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