I put my foot in the W10 water, and as a familiarisation exercise I upgraded my non HW MacPro from W8.1 to W10 (a 2007 MacPro 1,1). The upgrade worked seamlessly. This experience gave me confidence to upgrade the Windows side of my HW MacPro 5,1 from W8.1 to W10. The outcome? HW runs without a hitch. BUT! My Edirol UM-880 has no functioning driver for W10 so I had to move the MIDI ports to a spare RME Fireface 400.
It has been written elsewhere that W8.1 drivers would work under W10. Certainly not the situation with the UM-880. I note that others in this thread with more recent Edirol devices have also experienced the same outcome as me.
I have clones of all of my hard disks. So, if an upgrade doesn't work out, I can revert to what was without angst.
Quite frankly,
in my installation the W10 audio outcome with HW is the best that I have ever experienced using any version of Windows. My recent preference has been to run HW under OSX, however, W10 might change that, except for the comparatively (to OSX) clunky interface. And, just like W8.1 every now and then, especially in the 30 mins after starup, the HW CPU indicators max out for no apparent reason. Aside from this issue, could the excellent W10 outcome with HW be due to this?
http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home-pa ... udio-usersCheers,
Ian McLean