Does Pentagon vocoder work on W7/64 X1 64 bit?

You can disable UAC or Just run as administrator. This should fix your issue, if its not running in 64bit
Cj

I've never used Pentagon before, so thought I'd take a look at it.  But it's causing the same sort of problems.  It seems to load, but then X1 hangs.  I'm running X1P B x 64 under Win7x64, as an administrator.  There are two dll's, P1DXi and Pentagon I.dll,  each dated in 2006 and in the shared DXi folder, so I'm thinking the new VST didn't get installed.  (Don't recall omitting it, but maybe I did.)  My X1 install was by download upgrade (from 8.5.3). 

So I'd like to try a selective install, but don't want to screw up what is so far an otherwise stable and patched X1 install.   Does anyone recall which download file I need to run in order to do a custom install for only Pentagon?

Assuming I get it installed ok, how do you use it as a vocoder?  I don't see a preset with that name.  As FX rather than instrument?

Thx,  Ron

EDIT:  Guess this answers my second question.

OP here following up.

Here is the procedure to get Pentagon to work as a vocoder, and some observations.

1. Start by creating one midi and one audio track.  The output of the midi track should feed into the input of the audio track.  An easy way to do this is to load the "Normal" template when opening a new file.
2. Insert Pentagon into FX bin of audio track.
3. Choose a patch.
4. Click on the space near the bottom center of the screen which says Pentagon I to select the menu item for "Voice Modulator".  Turn this to on.
5. Drag an audio clip onto the audio track.
6. Press Play on transport.
7. Play something on keyboard.

Here are some observations on things that seem to cause problems.

• I was able to do the above process with the DXi version, but not VST.  For some reason, the VST version did not seem to go into "Voice Modulator" mode.  It would simply play like a normal synth.
• Do not turn on 2x Oversampling.  When I did this, I would get a low pitched blip, followed by no sound.  Furthermore, the problem persisted when I turned off the oversampling. 
• As CJ pointed out above, make sure that you are set to run Sonar X1 as an administrator. 

AFAIK, there isn't one and won't ever be. Pentagon has been around for a looooong time. The 32 bit version works just fine under 64bit sonar.