Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
My sound patches: espenkraft.com • I'm using an Intel i7 2600K system from 2011 as my main computer because it runs so smoothly. I have no plugins or software that requires any online connection (I don't even have a network card installed) and my 2005 32-bit DAW (Nuendo/Cubase) is set up exactly how I want it.
Newer versions are simply inferior to me for daily work.
I'm also relying on so many useful plugins that will not run on a 64-bit system. As such I have to do regular backups of the hard drives as well as having spare components at hand that works as a direct swap if problems occur. That's really the true risk of running an old system like this. Spare components.
Considering we recorded onto tape back in the day this DAW gives me endless power to do everything I want to do in a production. I see no reason to upgrade anything. I don't have to, I don't want to and this way I get to spend most of my income on something else than chasing the newest temporarily high.
I'm in it to make music.
Find my music here:
Bandcamp: espenkraft.bandcamp.com
My sound patches: espenkraft.com • I'm using an Intel i7 2600K system from 2011 as my main computer because it runs so smoothly. I have no plugins or software that requires any online connection (I don't even have a network card installed) and my 2005 32-bit DAW (Nuendo/Cubase) is set up exactly how I want it.
Newer versions are simply inferior to me for daily work.
I'm also relying on so many useful plugins that will not run on a 64-bit system. As such I have to do regular backups of the hard drives as well as having spare components at hand that works as a direct swap if problems occur. That's really the true risk of running an old system like this. Spare components.
Considering we recorded onto tape back in the day this DAW gives me endless power to do everything I want to do in a production. I see no reason to upgrade anything. I don't have to, I don't want to and this way I get to spend most of my income on something else than chasing the newest temporarily high.
I'm in it to make music.
Find my music here:
Bandcamp: espenkraft.bandcamp.com
