you know, i'm not sure why i thought loading cubase in virtualbox would be an easy task...

it doesn't know how to read the soundcard emulation. it's not going to figure it out. and i don't know how useful the test would be anyways.

this laptop was given to me as a gift. i'm grateful for it, no doubt. but, it has a chip in the bios that prevents xp from loading. no joke. microsoft is that neurotic about it. i'm not particularly keen on a reinstall, but it's not an option, anyways.

i do not believe that there is a way to install the h20 drivers in windows 7.

my other modern laptop has the same issue. my ancient laptop is ancient. you don't understand. 1997, i think.

that leaves my living room pc as the only serious option, although it's stripped down so far that it might not install. i've run cubase on it in the past, but not sx3. it's the exact reason i upgraded; it was just not useful to run a daw on. pIII. 500 Mhz. well, there's only one way to find out what happens...

yes. i have a pIII kicking. it just sends youtube videos to a tv i found on the side of the road. and audio signals to the stereo. but i wrote a third of the discography on it...

actually, that might be a better idea, because it's the only specifically 32-bit processor around. i suspect that this may be significant.