Hey Folks.
During the early part of last year I had a mixed bag of success and failure with the new Sonar updates; quite a few niggling problems and the dreaded white screens! Working in the studio this week I realised that despite editing and recording a variety of projects with all kinds of plugins (including melodyne 4) I have not experienced a single crash, whitescreen or restart. Upon reflection it has pretty much been this way for the last 2 months.  It's funny how you notice the problems but tend to take it for granted when they aren't there. Sorry about that bakers!
 
The thing that made all of the difference was I changed over to a purely 64bit system - windows, Sonar and ALL plugins. It was admittedly hard to let go of a couple of oldies but goldies, but I am so glad that I did. Most of the clinging to old plugins was just habit, and I am certain that I have found better sound now that I have been forced to use newer options.
There are probably people running bridged plugins without issue - I guess it is the luck of the draw, but the results of my undoubtedly skewed study of one are that getting rid of all 32bit plugins, along with bitbridge and jbridge certainly did the trick.
I know this has all been said before - it was a post like this that planted the seed for me to change over. Just thought I would pass it on in case anyone else is late to the party like me.
 
Happy days:)
 
 

i've been x64 pure for years, never looked back!

This is a great thread. I couldn't be happier this is being pointed out. Great advice from the OP.
 
I have been fully 64 bit for a long time. 

I agree with OP. Have been doing all 64 bit for a few years, and it is sooo stable

i went full x64 the day NI released Kore 2 as a 64 bit plugin back in 2011.  how i loathed using bridges because of all the crashes and glitches

I'll be 63 on Sunday.
 
Next year however I'll be 64 all the way.
 
 

tenfoot
...The thing that made all of the difference was I changed over to a purely 64bit system - windows, Sonar and ALL plugins....

Agreed! +1

Yes - I was a bit late to the party guys as I was stuck with 2 Yamaha digital desks that had no 64 bit drivers. Great to hear others with the same experience.
 
And happy birthday Bapu. Heres hoping 64 stops you glitching and crashing too:)

Yeeeesssssssss!!  I didn't switch to 64 until about a year ago.  I've never looked back.

It all sounds pretty tempting, and for the most part I am already running things that way ... but there are still a few things I can't give up unless somebody can point towards some replacement plugins. I'm still badly addicted to the old NI B4 plugin. I don't think Native Instruments themselves are even putting this out anymore. What else can a guy use to get credible B3 organ sounds?
 
I also was a big fan of Dreamstation believe it or not. That synth was so lightweight and easily programmable that it became a go to for me. I need something like this in 64-bit as well. Tried to make Novation Bass Station work and it crashed my system left and right. They don't appear to be too supportive of 64-bit over there at Novation. Well,  there was a version to be sure, but it messed things up for me.