

Note that, if you do decide to buy 圆4, you can't buy it as a retail package, but only as an OEM product, which means you might have to buy some random piece of hardware with it. If you think you're going to be installing the trial version of 圆4 more than once, you might considerĬombining SP2 with it on one installation CD. (which is not the same as XP SP2, just to confuse you). Note that, unless they've updated the trial, you'll also want to install On Windows, XAudio2 is provided as a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) installed into the. On Xbox 360, XAudio2 ships as a static library that is compiled into the main game executable. Perhaps the easiest way to do this, if you're reluctant to buy a whole new computer, is to get an additional hard drive for your main DAW, and install 圆4 on that.ġ20-day free trial of WinXP 圆4 that you can download from Microsoft, which is what I used. XAudio2 is a cross-platform API that has shipped for use on Xbox 360 as well as versions of Windows, including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. But I didn't overwrite my existing 32-bit XP setup, so that was still available in the event that 圆4 didn't work out. I set up a new system with WinXP 圆4, and installed all the critical hardware and software in it and made sure it worked (and made some changes as a result).

Do what I did, and try it out first before commiting to it.
