Bug reports & end-user support for Akai's MPC Software 'controllers' including the new MPC Studio 2, the MPC Touch, MPC Renaissance & original MPC Studio and MPC StudioB lack.
User avatar
By Metatron72 Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:59 pm
TT_Lab wrote:Update to W7? :nod:


Really though, it's worth the upgrade fee. When they coded 7 they realized that the main problem with Vista was that it tried to pre-buffer a ton of RAM at startup with the idea that it would dynamically allocate it to apps and services as needed. In practice Vista could never do this quickly enough. With 7 they went back to the XP way of allocating and loading with your RAM and it makes a huge difference. Like having 40-60% tied up idle after a bootup in Vista would only be 10% RAM already loaded in the same scenario on Windows 7. Audio apps especially didn't like the Vista RAM allocation methods.

I realize this doesn't help your issue at all, just encouraging you to update if you can. I know of no way to make a incompatible Win 7 installer backwards compatible with Vista.
Last edited by Metatron72 on Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:42 am, edited 1 time in total.
User avatar
By Metatron72 Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:50 am
kaydigi wrote:Win 7 is dope, going to skip 8 and see if 9 improves upon 7.


I'm more prone to check out 8 now that I've confirmed that 32bit apps will still run on it. The guys at Cakewalk have said it is already outperforming 7 in their tests.
By Clint Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:44 am
http://www.akaiprompc.com/mpc-renaissance

Minimum Computer specs:

Mac: 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended) Mac OS X 10.6 or later DVD-ROM drive

Windows: 2 GHz Pentium® 4 or Celeron® compatible CPU or faster (multicore CPU recommended) 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended) Windows 7 (32 or 64-bit) DVD-ROM drive



It pays to do some research before spending over $1000 on a new product.
User avatar
By Metatron72 Tue Oct 16, 2012 3:21 pm
mQueue wrote:What's the problem with the disks? There has to be some way to extract the data. This is the first I've heard of a CD not being Win7 compatible, hit me on PM if you need.


They're trying to run a Windows 7 installer on Vista and XP. Yeah, other way around they would just use compatibility mode.