Hi,
Just a little rant here. I figured it was time to put into use the pc I built myself a bit more than two years ago for hauptwerk, to finally replace an aging 2008 mac pro. Although I have not used windows a lot (that is very little of it since... 1994 when I switched to linux, and to macos in 2006), I am quite knowledgeable as regards computers and I was confident I could easily configure this pc to run hauptwerk 7, with a clean install of windows 10 pro.
Boy was I wrong !
My first blunder was to install windows 10 on a nvme ssd while still having a hard drive connected... The stupid windows installer put the EFI partition on the hard drive, while correctly installing the system itself on the ssd. Quite ignorant of that, I installed hauptwerk and quite a few samplesets, and when moving the computer to the organ console, I removed the hard drive, as it became useless in that configuration... As you can guess, the computer wouldn't find a bootable drive or partition...
Luckily, I could google myself out of the misery of a complete reinstall, but that was close...
Then came the surprise of the cpu surges in red in hauptwerk, and frequent cuts in sound while playing, a thing I never experienced on macos. I followed the guides here and there, and adjusted a lot of settings, often having to look for help in google because the guides gave steps that were impossible to follow (often the settings I had to change were greyed out, and I had to use obscure commands in the terminal instead).
I suppose it took me quite a few days, weeks even, until, hopefully, all the glitches were resolved.
One reason it took me a long time is that I followed to the letter (I think) the guide by cantabile that is sticky in the Technical support section of the forum, but it was not enough... I found the missing piece in a post by Martin Dyde, I still needed to disable Superfetch/sysmain and I think it was not mentioned anywhere in this document...
So in short, macos is much easier than windows, and actually, I would have been better served by hackintoshing my pc and then installing hauptwerk on macos, but it is not really convenient either.
In order to use hauptwerk, one has the choice of overpaying for an apple computer (if one wants to have enough RAM for samplesets) for which there is right now no native implementation of hauptwerk (but it still works through rosetta)
or pay much less for a pc with a lot of cheap ram and storage, but probably require the help of a technician to fine-tune the pc, hoping that a system update won't break it in the near future...
Then I wonder : wouldn't linux be a much better operating system for hauptwerk ? I know, the subject has been discussed here and there, and I quite understand that trying to support every linux distribution would be a nightmare. But would it be necessary ? Most of hauptwerk users will have a dedicated computer for hauptwerk, so if ONE distribution of linux only was supported by hauptwerk (for example : linux mint that I always found to be very easy to install and very stable), maybe (of course I can't try it, so I can only guess) installing Hauptwerk and getting it to perform well would be much, much easier...
(ok, I know, there is a small issue... iLok, but maybe pace could be convinced to develop a driver for linux, I don't know...)
Just a little rant here. I figured it was time to put into use the pc I built myself a bit more than two years ago for hauptwerk, to finally replace an aging 2008 mac pro. Although I have not used windows a lot (that is very little of it since... 1994 when I switched to linux, and to macos in 2006), I am quite knowledgeable as regards computers and I was confident I could easily configure this pc to run hauptwerk 7, with a clean install of windows 10 pro.
Boy was I wrong !
My first blunder was to install windows 10 on a nvme ssd while still having a hard drive connected... The stupid windows installer put the EFI partition on the hard drive, while correctly installing the system itself on the ssd. Quite ignorant of that, I installed hauptwerk and quite a few samplesets, and when moving the computer to the organ console, I removed the hard drive, as it became useless in that configuration... As you can guess, the computer wouldn't find a bootable drive or partition...
Luckily, I could google myself out of the misery of a complete reinstall, but that was close...
Then came the surprise of the cpu surges in red in hauptwerk, and frequent cuts in sound while playing, a thing I never experienced on macos. I followed the guides here and there, and adjusted a lot of settings, often having to look for help in google because the guides gave steps that were impossible to follow (often the settings I had to change were greyed out, and I had to use obscure commands in the terminal instead).
I suppose it took me quite a few days, weeks even, until, hopefully, all the glitches were resolved.
One reason it took me a long time is that I followed to the letter (I think) the guide by cantabile that is sticky in the Technical support section of the forum, but it was not enough... I found the missing piece in a post by Martin Dyde, I still needed to disable Superfetch/sysmain and I think it was not mentioned anywhere in this document...
So in short, macos is much easier than windows, and actually, I would have been better served by hackintoshing my pc and then installing hauptwerk on macos, but it is not really convenient either.
In order to use hauptwerk, one has the choice of overpaying for an apple computer (if one wants to have enough RAM for samplesets) for which there is right now no native implementation of hauptwerk (but it still works through rosetta)
or pay much less for a pc with a lot of cheap ram and storage, but probably require the help of a technician to fine-tune the pc, hoping that a system update won't break it in the near future...
Then I wonder : wouldn't linux be a much better operating system for hauptwerk ? I know, the subject has been discussed here and there, and I quite understand that trying to support every linux distribution would be a nightmare. But would it be necessary ? Most of hauptwerk users will have a dedicated computer for hauptwerk, so if ONE distribution of linux only was supported by hauptwerk (for example : linux mint that I always found to be very easy to install and very stable), maybe (of course I can't try it, so I can only guess) installing Hauptwerk and getting it to perform well would be much, much easier...
(ok, I know, there is a small issue... iLok, but maybe pace could be convinced to develop a driver for linux, I don't know...)