I have several 32 bit products from IK and others installed on my 64 bit W7 system and all are easily managed and work fine with X1. EXCEPT, I just loaded IK's Philhamonik (v 1.1.1), and while it works in another 32 bit daw, X1 will will not recognize it. I have the X1 plugin manager/options set to scan the folder with the Philharmonik .dll (same folder as Sample Tank, which works fine in X1), but can fine no mention of Philharmonik in the manager. EXCEPT that is does appear in the VST Audio Effects - (???) In another post about this, there was mention of the bitbridge and IK products. I don't know much about how the bitbridge works, but I'm under the impression that it is automatic, nothing for me to do. Is that right? I've uninstalled and re-installed Philharmonik - no help. Any solutions or suggestions for me to remedy this? Thanks so much.

Bump - Anyone???

Try using JBRIDGE and setting Cakewalk Plug in Manager to use JBridge rather than Bitbridge for the plug in....

Jbridge has solved alot of my 32 bridge woes.....

It can be bought for a very small price (About 30 bucks or something)

Hope this helps.

In plugin manager select philharmonic in the centre window then options where you can access the plugin settings. There select to run as a synth. Somehow SONAR is seeing it as an fx. I'm not at my SONAR right now but will get back later today with more precise details if you haven't been able to get there from my approximate explanation.
When you say that it works in other 32bit daws I assume that you are using the 32 bit version of SONAR in which case Bitbridge is not an issue.
Telling us you are using Win 7 x64 does not however tell us SONAR 32 or 64 bit.

I have Philhamonik running just fine with Sonar X1 64 using bitbridge. The version is 1.1.2 though.
In Plugin Manager the path shows as-----
c:\program files (x86)\steinberg\VSTplugins\Philharmonik.dll (default installation path, I left as)

But, as Mudgel suggested, it may be selected to run as an fx. In the field named- Plug-in Properties-the box-Configure as Synth is the one checked.

Hi,
I remember having an issue when installing Miroslav on my Win 7 64 for use in 8.5.3. I am now running X1 and Miroslav is working fine.
 
When I installed Miroslav, it was installed here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\IK Multimedia\Miroslav Philharmonik
 
I have my VST scan folders set to the 2 cakewalk vst folders:
C:\Program Files\Cakewalk\Vstplugins
& C:\Program Files (x86)\Cakewalk\Vstplugins
 
In order to get the Miroslav to work, I needed to copy 2 files into the (x86) cakewalk vst folder:
Philharmonik.dll
& Philharmonik.ini
 
The dll file could be found in your Miroslav folder. The ini is a configuration file I believe I found online some where (i didn't have it anywhere in the Miroslav install folders).
This is what is inside the ini file (copy this and save it in wordpad with the name Philharmonik.ini):
 
[VPA]
GUID={C60BC4DD-835B-4AC6-AFDF-8995E0468B28}
ChannelsIn=0
ChannelsOut=ASK
ID=1346908464
ProcessIndex=0
[VST]
Name=Philharmonik
 
 
Hope this helps.

Hi there dfp.
I have the same issue with Miroslav Philharmonik. It works fine as a standalone product, but when I load it in Sonar X1 64 bit  Windows 7 64 bit, it just says, Failed to insert soft synth. The synth may not be properly installed.
 
Now I have tried everything under the sun. Started Sonar as Admin, tried the above fix with no luck. Someone please help. Everything is working fine in standalone mode, all the instruments work.
 
Thanks in advance, Tones..

friendly bump

One option is to install Sonar in 32-bit. You can have both 32 and 64 bit installed at the same time. 

Thanks Dave, i'll try that, I was wondering if it's a 32/64 bit issue. I'll post my results!