Guitar - PC interfaces.

[Jackson8090s]

My laptop has Windows 10, I just do forums and reading, email on my laptop, my desktop has all my recording, amplitube 3 ect, ect and it's still on Vista and it works so I'm leaving it alone. I learned a long time ago to stay a few yrs behind on operating systems for that very reason.

[Axewielder]

I learned a long time ago to stay a few yrs behind on operating systems for that very reason.

+1...I'm still running OS/2 Warp.

[javert]

When you guys say "play along" what exactly do you mean? What's preventing you from playing a song with any media player at the same time?

OS/2 Warp? Haha, man.... that was some years ago. That was actually a very good OS. I recently gave up on my linux box at work. I'm getting involved in too many administrative things and people kept sending me word files with track changes, etc., so I finally went all Windows.

[Hellbat]

+1...I'm still running OS/2 Warp.

[Newc]

When you guys say "play along" what exactly do you mean? What's preventing you from playing a song with any media player at the same time?

Can you not drop a CD track into an open track in your DAW and play along with it? That's how I did my Ride The Lightning thing.

[Jackson8090s]

I know I can't use media player when I have amplitube3 open. I've not messed with it in a while. It says another media source is using the driver or some shit.

[MartinBarre]

Can you not drop a CD track into an open track in your DAW and play along with it? That's how I did my Ride The Lightning thing.

Yeah, I did that last night. Loaded Satch's "Big Bad Moon" into Ableton and played along. However, that's a pain in the fucking ass. With Gearbox/Toneport on Windows Xp/8 you could select ANY song in your library and jam along with it in the software, then switch to a different one with just a click. So simple.

Joe, it's not just Toneport, it's Windows 10. I can't get any mp3s to play when I have the Focusrite Scarlett plugged in either, exactly as it was with the Toneport. Clearly some driver conflict. Kinda feel like I blew £65 on something I didn't need now. The only reason I wanted to upgrade the Toneport was because recording anything soft like an acoustic guitar or mandolin was often ruined by pops.

[toejam]

Well, I can play along with any CD through iTunes or Windows Media Player, but I am getting the "pops" here and there through Windows 10 now trying to play my guitar... something definitely got fucked up with the audio. CDs and anything else in my media player sound fine, though.

[MartinBarre]

Joe, I went back to Windows 8, fuck Windows 10. I'm just now looking for the drivers for the Toneport again and there's a new one that adds Win 10 support if you don't already have it (the driver) installed.

[toejam]

Cool. Just uploaded the new driver. I had Windows 7 before, went straight to 10. Doesn't seem that anything's changed with the new drivers, but I don't seem to have any popping/stuttering at the moment while playing. I do have my computer set up to one pair of speakers, and the Line 6 is set up with another set of speakers going through a 1/8" to 1/4" adapter into the Toneport headphone jack.

[MartinBarre]

Mine is working fine again

[toejam]

Nice. I still can't upload any music to it, but playing along with any music files through the media player, CD, or iTunes works fine for me. I really don't want to through the hassle of going back to Windows 7 again. I'll deal with how it works for now.

[MartinBarre]

Nice. I still can't upload any music to it, but playing along with any music files through the media player, CD, or iTunes works fine for me. I really don't want to through the hassle of going back to Windows 7 again. I'll deal with how it works for now.

I would have been happy enough if I could have played along to music via media player but when either the Toneport or Focusrite boxes were plugged in I couldn't get any music to play at all. Obviously a driver conflict. Maybe Windows 10 will sort it eventually but I was also having problems with my emails. I use Livemail to display emails from my 3 various accounts and with Windows 10 one of the Hotmail accounts wouldn't work. Pain in the arse.

I always liked Windows 8 anyway.

[Jackson8090s]

MartinBarre, I use Livemail to display emails from my 3 various accounts and with Windows 10 one of the Hotmail accounts wouldn't work. Pain in the arse

I use Outlook 2010 can't get gmail to work with it.