No doubt the Abacus and Ikarus are great boards, but it's pretty scarey to me when a boards OS is Windows. Does that mean the board is subject to all the same bugs as the standard Windows program? Do you get freeze ups, and that dreadful "fatal blue screen"? Waiting for it to power up wouldn't be a problem for me, but with a hicup in power and the board has to completely reboot, that makes me nervous. With boards that don't have Windows, typically you're settings go back to where you were last at start up, and it doesn't take long either.

Squeak
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GEAR: Yamaha MOXF-6, Casio MZX-500, Roland Juno-Di, M-Audio Venom, Roland RS-70, Yamaha PSR S700, M-Audio Axiom Pro-61 (Midi Controller). SOFTWARE: Mixcraft-7, PowerTracks Pro Audio 2013, Beat Thang Virtual, Dimension Le.