Approaching ARM on Windows

I succeeded installing Maschine on my Windows ARM laptop. Here's how

• Download and install Native Access
• Start installation for Maschine, which probably fails or hangs
• During the attemt for installation, go to c:\Users>Public>Public Downloads. This is where Native Access temporarily stores your installation file. Copy the file to a different location and restart your pc to make sure the installation attempt by NA ends
• Unzip the installation file and manually install. You'll get an error on installing a virtual midi driver which is probably why Native Accessfails to install Maschine, but ignore the message and continue and finish installation
• Now Maschine works. You can activate it in Native Access

Native Instruments, if you read this: Pleas fix the error on installing a virtual midi driver on Windows ARM pc's.

Correct, it's running in x64 mode. But I'm not using Maschine that much. I have a Maschine + and sometimes need the app to edit out some groups or projects. For me it's more important that it runs, than that it runs efficiently.

But still NI should address the installation issue regarding the midi driver. Probably an easy fix which saves a lot of people trouble.

Is there somewhere I can drop the suggestion? Contacting NI directly seems impossible.

For me this is still the age-old conundrum of RISC versus CISC that's been a point of discussion for decades. Everything looks promising for RISC processors until you examine the actual marketplace in which these systems must function. MS and Apple both were initially built on the premise that hardware outperforms software, which is not necessarily the case IF the hardware is replaced with RISC based processing, which it's not for the most part, at this point. You can still do it with non RISC based processors, but as can be seen with Apple's adventure into RISC, it's not always easy and can be quite problematic. And you tend to sacrifice quite a lot of the overall gains in processing speed and heat efficiency that comes with RISC.

I personally think the promise of RISC will require a much larger investment and involvement in creating RISC based peripherals before it can gain any real traction in main general processing machines. In the music business, for example, guitar modelers have been relatively stagnant in processing power for several years now because the DSP processors have reached their practical limits, and adding more processors increases the price and heat significantly. THIS would be a practical use for RISC processors that would make a difference across an entire segment of music production. The same is likely to be true for advanced electronic keyboards as well as mixing boards and the like. But all of those applications will also require RISC based rather than hardware based A/D D/A conversion to stay consistent and gain the benefits.

I think most of these various complex peripheral segments will need to make these types of transitions for it be become practical and easier to create general purpose computers that can operate effectively and predictably in a RISC based world.

As there is no software from NI which actually supports Windows on ARM, I wonder how much help you can get from support though.

Windows will not become primarily ARM platform. At least not in following 10 years. ARM is not more energy effective than x86, if it is made on comparable node. And if one puts Intel aside.

I strongly doubt, there will be Win Traktor for ARM. No need for.

This years' trial to introduce ARM to Win is already third one. And I bet it will fail as well as two previous ones.