Anyway Quick and Easy Way to Tell if a Plugin is 32bit or 64bit?

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2013/02/17 11:57:48 (permalink)

Anyway Quick and Easy Way to Tell if a Plugin is 32bit or 64bit?

Instead of using the plugin manager and checking the properties of individual plugins (which takes a long time and is fiddly for multiple plugins) is there a way to tell if a plugin is 32 bit or 64 bit from within Sonar?
 
I used to think it was indicated by the dots underneath the plugin name, but I suspect those dots represent mono (one dot) and stereo (two dots), is that correct?
 
 

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    Re:Anyway Quick and Easy Way to Tell if a Plugin is 32bit or 64bit? 2013/02/17 11:59:58 (permalink)
    32bit plugins in 64bit SONAR have (32-bit) appended to their name
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    Re:Anyway Quick and Easy Way to Tell if a Plugin is 32bit or 64bit? 2013/02/17 12:02:09 (permalink)
    Also if it has a textured bar near the top its been Bitbridged.  

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    Re:Anyway Quick and Easy Way to Tell if a Plugin is 32bit or 64bit? 2013/02/17 12:56:46 (permalink)
    scook

    32bit plugins in 64bit SONAR have (32-bit) appended to their name
    That's only true if you use the "Default All Plug-ins" menu layout.  Doesn't work that way for custom menus.


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    Re:Anyway Quick and Easy Way to Tell if a Plugin is 32bit or 64bit? 2013/02/17 13:00:54 (permalink)
    That is true, when you use custom layouts you takeover responsibility for naming the entries. 64bit SONAR has no control over custom layouts.
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    Re:Anyway Quick and Easy Way to Tell if a Plugin is 32bit or 64bit? 2013/02/17 13:02:14 (permalink)
    John

    Also if it has a textured bar near the top its been Bitbridged.  
    Hi John,


    Could you post a screen shot? I'm looking at my X2a tracks & FX bins with mixed 32/64 plug-ins side by side and can't see a difference. Maybe I'm just not looking at the right thing.
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    Re:Anyway Quick and Easy Way to Tell if a Plugin is 32bit or 64bit? 2013/02/17 13:08:39 (permalink)
    He is referring to the plugin GUI. By default in 64bit SONAR 32bit VST plugins are wrapped with BitBidge. When you open the plugin, the GUI will not have the normal VST header. To view the normal VST header, hold down shift when double clicking the plugin in the bin. You may have to move the plugin window out of the way to see it.
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    Re:Anyway Quick and Easy Way to Tell if a Plugin is 32bit or 64bit? 2013/02/17 13:15:36 (permalink)
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    He is referring to the plugin GUI. By default in 64bit SONAR 32bit VST plugins are wrapped with BitBidge. When you open the plugin, the GUI will not have the normal VST header. To view the normal VST header, hold down shift when double clicking the plugin in the bin. You may have to move the plugin window out of the way to see it.

    Ah, thanks.

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    Re:Anyway Quick and Easy Way to Tell if a Plugin is 32bit or 64bit? 2013/02/17 13:44:55 (permalink)


    The one on the right is 64 bits the one on the left is 32 bits. Notice the texture in the left plugin bar just below the title bar? The 64 bit plugin is smooth in that bar. 

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