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Legacy plug-ins, how to access

I recently got the Scott Garrigus X1 power book and thought I'd try his method of preparing a project for export to MP3 (p 478 in my copy)  to see how it compared to ones I'd done before.   For EQ he uses the CW DSP-FX EQ, with precise settings laid out in 7 steps.  However, this is a legacy plug-in (it's not even included in his otherwise exhaustive overview of FX in Chapter 11).  How do I get access to this older plug-in in X1?  
 
I've tried to load it from the Snr 8.5 and Snr 8 discs by doing a partial install (checked 'DSP-FX EQ' in the list).  This has worked before for other old plug-ins like the CW Tuner but I must be choosing the wrong one as it's not appearing in plug-in manager or in the audio FX dropdown or the Shared Plugins Folder in Windows Explorer.   If I open up the 8.5 'plug-ins overview' PDF, the plug-in is listed and described so it should be there somewhere.
 
(I realise I can use other EQs to imitate his settings but as he's provided precise settings and screenshots of these plugins I wanted to use this one for comparison.)
 
PS - he also uses the FX Compressor/gate in this process, which I also can't find, it doesn't appear to be even listed in Snr 8 or 8.5 dropdowns in the custom install.

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Re:Legacy plug-ins, how to access 2012/04/10 18:38:39 (permalink)
Did you re-scan VST plugins?

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Re:Legacy plug-ins, how to access 2012/04/10 18:51:08 (permalink) ☄ Helpful
Many of the old plugins are DX 32 bit and can not load in a 64 bit host.

You can get around this by using a DX to VST wrapper to turn them into to VSTs. They will then be 32 bit VSTs and will load under Bitbridge.

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Re:Legacy plug-ins, how to access 2012/04/11 17:47:05 (permalink)
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Did you re-scan VST plugins?


Well these two aren't VST but yes in the meantime I would have done a couple of scans anyway thanks.

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Re:Legacy plug-ins, how to access 2012/04/11 17:49:31 (permalink)
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Many of the old plugins are DX 32 bit and can not load in a 64 bit host.

You can get around this by using a DX to VST wrapper to turn them into to VSTs. They will then be 32 bit VSTs and will load under Bitbridge.

I didn't realise that - I assumed because other old ones loaded OK that 32 bit would work.  That's useful to know thanks.

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Re:Legacy plug-ins, how to access 2012/04/11 18:55:41 (permalink)
I don't know the thinking about this at CW but it is a little strange that the oldest DX plugins were updated to 64 bits but not the newer ones.

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