To answer a specific question the OP has - as far as 32-bit plugs running in Bitbridge are concerned, there is little or no cost in terms of workflow. (I can't comment about JBridge as I have never used it).

With Bitbridge there is no additional setup involved as 32-bit plugins are wrapped automatically by 64-bit SONAR.

You open the plugin GUI in the normal way by double-clicking the icon in the synth rack. The only differences I believe are a) a wrapped plugin opens in its own window and by default cannot be docked and b) if you need access to the ACT controls you must open the GUI by Shift+double-clicking the icon. This opens a dockable control panel, from which you can toggle the plugin GUI.
Neither of these has ever bothered me, although I only ever use one 32-bit plugin regularly.

My take on this is that 64-bit SONAR does indeed have advantages in terms of performance and stability, with no penalty in usability.

YMMV.

I hope this helps.

For me, I get a certain amount of time between recordings. That's how much attention the mix can get. The faster I bounce, the more work I can do in the same amount of time. With x64, I do more work in the fixed amount of time I'm willing to spend.

Sadly none of us are recording with Elvis or The Beatles. My ex employer (when I was a spotty teenager) was once the producer of The Beatles believe it or not and I suspect he would have a field day reading these posts ;)

And in my day the discussion was what was the smallest van that could carry a Fairlight.... Which nowdays is emulated on an iPhone app.

+1000000000000000000000000000000

Good to see you haven't lost your famous perspective, Freddie.


Perhaps you should consider scientific  notation before your zero key wears out.

CakeAlexS


Sadly none of us are recording with Elvis or The Beatles. My ex employer (when I was a spotty teenager) was once the producer of The Beatles believe it or not and I suspect he would have a field day reading these posts ;)

I'm sure he would Alex.  


Mike

gcolbert


The reality is that 32 bit programs run best on 32 bit operating systems.  If, because of the VSTs and plug-ins, you feel the need to run 32 bit Sonar, you need to consider backing your operating system back to 32 bit Windows.  32 bit applications running on a 64 bit OS don't perform as well or as dependably.  We saw the same issues going from 8 bit to 16 bit applications and again going from 16bit to 32 bit applications. 
 
To the OP, if you have the need to run 32 bit plugs, reload Windows with a 32 bit version.  This will give you the best performance. 
 
The OS bit width and the application word size don't have anything to do with the recording sampling rate and bit depth.  It doesn't matter how you mix and match the OS/Application word width.  The sound will be the same.  in the DAW, the sound is nothing more than numbers and 2 + 2 = 4 if you are using a 32 bit application or a 64 bit application.
 
Glen

Even that is not true! I don't know what you have got this from but I'm sorry, you info can't get more wrong, Glen!
Any x32bit program or x32bit application runs better, faster and more stable on x64bit OS VS 32bit OS. All old XP programs runs more stable and better on Windows 7 x64 then Xp32.
 
So there are no benefits with x32bit only setbacks!
 

I'm glad this thread blossomed without turning into some kind of battle. The variety of responses made for an informative aggregate. I can tell a few people here were following me down the path of workflow vs sound quality considerations for the type of work I normally produce. Best of all I was inspired to do more research about how bitbridge and jbridge work and that it's something you set up one time per plugin as opposed to every instance. Also, that it seems like once a plugin is playing nicely it will continue to do so more or less. 

I don't look at this forum very often but when I do I see posts about 64 bit problems and I guess I got the impression that it was not totally ready for primetime. I also tried using a 64 bit version of vegas 8 early on and while it was great from some things it was very problematic with others. The later versions are completely usable and I don't even have a 32 bit install of those. 

The main factor is that I don't really want to change the way I work all at once. I have to be productive and if I didn't need more processing power I wouldn't change anything. I'm leaving an incredibly stable system behind that was just plain old 32 bit XP that just runs and runs and runs. Unfortunately it just doesn't run fast enough at higher sampling rates so in the name of progress I must move on.


My current plan is to go ahead with my 32 bit setup for my current projects but also start setting up 64 bit X1/X2 installations so I can begin figuring out the plugin management. 

Cheers all.

Oh, and yoko became main singer as they just used pitch correction. Every one could tell but didn't care! Robot sound became legendary to reproduce and v-vocal now sells for $2000. Of course the original code with all it's bugs is best but hard to one by.