Good info to know for when i'm at the point where I have something that will all work together, but for now it sounds like i've had to get another computer, pay for an upgrade to caketalking so that it will work with a win 7 pc which is already a couple years behind in technology, as well as needing to update and pay for later sonar version which is also already way behind in technology, , now mostly trying to find out what is the earliest version of sonar that will work with caketalking 8.8 so i can use it on a windows 7 computer and not kill my bank account. I understand that caketalking is limited because of what they did in windows 8, but am sure the frustration is understandable considering i've got to do all of this just to let caketalking work on an older machine. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 10:41 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: upgrading system, and using windows 7 Thanks, DJX. That's just what I was going to say. I'm a bit embarrassed if our webpage does not tell you that JAWS 15 will work with CakeTalking 8.8. It definitely will. From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of D!J!X! Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 10:24 AM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: upgrading system, and using windows 7 Hi, Sonar 8is 64bit compatible, you can select to install 32bit or 64bit when installing. Note that direct x for the most part is useless on 64bit sonar, so if you plan to use allot of those, you might want to stick to 32bit sonar on windows 64. HTH, D!J!X! From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Hillebrandt Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 7:48 AM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] upgrading system, and using windows 7 Howdy Friends, After my xp bit the dust and not worth fixing, couple e-mails from Bill, and see now that I'm going to need to upgrade my caketalking version to 8.8 in order to run on windows 7 which is ok, but pretty sure my win 7 machine is a 64 bit computer so thinking that I may need to buy a new copy of sonar as well, since believe first version in 2009 that i have is a 32 bit. Does anyone know if the version i can currently buy from dancing dots is most current with caketalking 8.8, as hoping to avoid some of the updating and stuff needed to do previously in order to bring sonar 8.0 up to 8.53? Hoping there is a sonar 8.53 64 bit so I will be set. As it is, one crash of my xp machine is going to be possibly expensive and a major hastle configuring caketalking so hoping to find the path of least resistance. at least I already had the win 7 machine or would have just tried to get a "like new" win xp computer. the old caketalking 8.0 worked plenty good for me and was just perfect til the crash, so hoping to get back to that and after only a few days, really missing my recording setup. obviously, at this point will do whatever is required, but looking for least expensive and least hastle as i can since not a computer literate person.... In closing, cant thank those on this list enough for all your help, including Bill and DJX. Hoping to purchase whatever updates necessary today but webpage a little confusing and will probably call office first. As it is, turns out caketalking 8.8 is able to work with jaws 15 and not even on their web page, so not taking any chances of buying anything else til I am sure it will work together. at least believe my focusrite scarlet 2 should work on windows 7. Sincerely, Dave