Yeh I know.. Vista was a big mistake.. but I have much more than recording software on this machine.. I have 1 Terabyte of HD space and many applications that I don't want to go through the painful process of re-installing. I still have Windows XP on one of the hard drives and can run it any time I want.. but changing operating systems every time I want to fiddle around with the synth, destroys the creative process.
If I had done it all over again I would still have a PC but with Windows XP still installed.