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I don’t know abou the pro but my Ipad 4 air works fine although nothing on it obviously gives the best experience

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The general concenses, as far as I understand, is that W7 is still the most stable for DAW duties.
W10 is slowly catching up as more and more develloppers are getting the drift of W10.

For me, there’s absolutely no reason to make the switch.

@frank : new W7 licences are cheap these days

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Common practice for me too; one dca for the monitors and for the fx-returns

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Hi Frank, I just confirmed that my T410 also plays back without one hickup. Hope yours does too !

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Ah ! Hold your horses ! I was only talking about recording as that is how I (sometimes) use this. How are you picturing you want to use the QU + laptop rig ? Maybe I can imitate that to double check for you. I’d feel bad if were to buy another useless laptop….

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Unfortunately I’m only sure it works with Studio One 2.

It’s a 64bit W7 pro I7 @ 2,67 Ghz with 8 Gigs of RAM. It has a Samsung 840 EVO SSD.

The T61 is older and less equipped but works great too.

Good luck !

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Dear o dear, how hard can it be to actually put in some effort to find something….

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Apologies Frank, I meant to tell you which laptops work for me.

2 Lenovo’s actually, a T61 and a T410. If you need more details just ask and I’ll try to find what you need. I may need some help cause my computerskills are nothing to write home about I’m afraid.

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Uhmm, it seems our friends at HQ ran out of software…… I get the dreaded 404 at the DL-page 🤬

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Wow ! Impressive….

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Sooooo, went and experimented a bit with this. Activated the noisegenerator on monomixes 1 through 4 amd stereomixes 5/6 through 9/10 and mains. Connected the headphonesoutput directly to 2 inputs on my interface, panned them hard left and right, set up a stereotrack and inserted a phasemeter and a spectrummeter. All eq’s etc. disabled.

I’m not phasemeter savvy enough to be able to interpret the results but there are definitely huge differences in the view the phasemeter gives when combining f.i. left mains with mix 1 vs. looking at main L against main R. Thank goodness at least the mains are fine…

Then watched the RTA; overall fine except in mix 5-6 and 9-10 which have a huge dip at 8 kHz (white and pink noise). That also shows when using “sine” for a signalsource.
An average signalstrength of -48dB shows a dip to -79dB in white noise, this is in L+R mode. L-R mode shows 8kHz as loudest with a dip at 16 kHz. Looking at either L or R seperately gives a perfect graph

I have zero clue as to what is happening here but, at least in my case, the honourable Mr. Moffitt is on to something.

I’m just happy my or any bandmembers ears never noticed anything 😉

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Thanks for your explaination Jeremy ! If I have some time left this christmas I will try to replicate this with my Qu-SB as far as that’s possible with my very basic setup and see what happens.

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Ok, thanks !

Question: do you take the RTA plots for the stereo sources with one mic measuring 2 speakers firing ? 1 Mic, 1 speaker for the mono sources ?

Did you also use the exact same setup when you measured the mains out ?

What I’m getting at is that a less thank optimal measuring environment could also influence the outcome of the test I imagine ?

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I have a very basic understanding what Smaart is used for but not enough te be able to interpret the graphs. Care to explain ?

Also, why is it a problem if some outputs aren’t totally in phase ?

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Arghh, I’m thick !

Extreme drive

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