For one that thing looks ancient. It's NOT 64 bit which means most newer plugins will never work with it, IF it ever worked very well with mainstream plugins to begin with. I swear I expected to see super mario pop out of there somewhere while looking at their web site. It's actaully amazing they still have that site up. I heard of this back in the day and remember laughing at it back then.



Good luck getting it (or anything like it) working with modern audio hardware. Unless you already have some soundblaster or midi-man computer ware laying around collecting dust and the drivers and host machine to run it all. don't really see the point actually. I mean I get the point of older OS's they can actually be more respectful of user privacy than anything released today. However I do not share that same opinion of ancient audio wares... They are just ancient. My guess is, from remembering what it was like using similar mainstream audio products of that day, when pushed, that thing will just start breaking down. In that era, even the main stream devs like Steinberg, Motu, Cakewalk, etc, all had difficult times dealing with the memory models of those earlier windows OS's. I still remember dealing with Cubase 3, 4, 5 on WinXP on machines of the day. They were all OK up to a point, but when the projects got larger the performance went down, noticeably. And seemingly no matter how many extra hardware resources one would throw at the problem it never seemed to fix or improve the issues much.

Compatibility & System Requirements
All MW products are compatible with Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/VISTA/7

Minimum: Multi-media PC with Pentium Processor, 2G HDD, 16MB (Try running any other music software on this system!)

Recommended: Pentium Dual Core with 2GB Ram if you are planning to run a lot of VST instruments and effects.

Personally, if you're looking for a good solid DAW I would try Reaper. Since you aren't looking for all the bells and whistles you could probably do with just the free version. It's a solid MODERN audio engine to work with and not 10-15 years old that can work with modern audio hardware and will yield a professional sounding result.

 

Last edited: Sep 27, 2023

@clone
Thanks for your suggestions. Let me try some of these alternatives.

 

@saccamano
Yeah, it is ancient. Nevertheless, it works with my M-Audio Air 192|4 and it is stable except that it crashes once you hit the internal explorer button

 

I just installed Radium's 1.91 version.

It works perfectly on this Wn10 Ent 22H2 build 19045.3570 laptop. Didn't see my ASIO drivers, of course.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.21 GHz

 

Last edited: Oct 15, 2023

I would use a TEAC 144 !

 

Does anyone else remember using Cubase 3/4/5 on Windows XP on here? Were these retail versions or something? I don't. I remember using the Radium release of Cubase 3.7, and then it taking (10,000 hours cracking time according to nfo file) almost a year after the release of Cubase SX for a release by H20 due to the Syncrosoft dongle they switched to for that version. But by then we had Logic 4.11 (with ES-1) to use in the meantime. If you want to BS people, you could at least get your story straight.

 

Making Waves was a great sequencing program for sequencing beats externally of your DAW. Back then, I don't think it was possible to sync 2 of these types of programs together unless you had a MOTU timepiece and sync'd via midi. Anyway, I never screwed with it on my Pentium II Win 98/XP 350MHz machine. Then, I imported the beats back into the DAW. What a PITA that was, but it was loads of fun and inspirational. MW was a great tool, and did give you control of each steps (...sample file for me) release value! - something that FruityLoops couldn't do yet since that was before FLs infamous piano roll mode. Hell, now I'm considering firing up MW for a random break/beat, just to see what happens in 2023

 

I remember that I could never get the damn thing to not crash upon start and scan. Wavelab worked like a champ back then though.

 

Thanks! Let me try this.