New BitBridge and jBridge support - THANK YOU, CAKEWALK!

Hey Elle,

You've probably already noticed this, but Bitbrdige 2.0 is way more stable than ever! (and I'm not just talking about the improved compatibility).  I remember that Bitbridge 1.0 would give me all sorts of stability issues when loading huge amounts of RAM.  I tested this again with Bitbridge 2.0 and was able to max out on my system RAM (a little over 7GB loaded on my machine - signature below).  Before, when I did this (with a much lower RAM amount of course, my CPU would be really high.  This time around it was below 20%.  I was soooo impressed, I wanted to kiss Noel.....huh...I meant hug him....(cough, cough). 

I also try to get the engine to motorboat by rapidly changing the playback state of the project and everything ran smooth as butter.  This shows that they really did made more improvements to the audio engine on top of the BIG improvements made to Bitbridge 2.0.  Just hope they keep at it cause, so far, I'm loving it.


Take care!

Well, in that test that I mentioned above, I was using the EWQLSO XP Gold Kompakt Player (4 instances fully loaded -  I could've load more by the way).  It works fine but my problem with it is with it's polyphony.  It was most likely due to me not being able to configure it properly, but I heard some notes getting cut off.  I also have Kontakt 2 which has better controls over polyphony, but I haven't installed it yet on this machine.  I'll have to test that again.

But basically, the Kompakt player works fine with Bitbridge 2.0.  It actually works better now then it did with Bitbridge 1.  It is more stable and lets me load all my RAM no problem.  Just need to configure it better.  If you know how to do this then I'd appreciate the help :-)


Take care!

Upping the latency on my RME won't help with RAM, only CPU usage.  I need to mess around with the DFD settings, which are kinda limited in the Kompakt Player.  There's much more control over polyphony in the Kontakt engine, that's for sure.  I haven't tried the free Kontakt Player yet and, even if I did, it would let me test memory usage on Bitbridge since it is a 64 bit version, no?

Anyways, I'll keep test it it out to see how to up my polyphony.  That's the only problem I'm encountering right now and I think it'll be better once I install Kontakt on my system.  I'll also try the free Kontakt player, but after testing Bitbridge 2.0 some more.

There's really no point in doing that now.  Most plugin developers are getting on track with 64 bit.

A year or two from now and we won't need Bitbridge or JBridge as much.  Just for legacy stuff.


Take care!

This is great news.  Has anyone checked if altiverb 6 works under a 64 bit OS?  Cause I remember hearing it doesn't so I never jumped ship to the 64 bit platform.  Also a while ago their was a thread about Waves plugins not working.  Does anyone have any updates on this?

dexterflex


This is great news.  Has anyone checked if altiverb 6 works under a 64 bit OS?  Cause I remember hearing it doesn't so I never jumped ship to the 64 bit platform.  Also a while ago their was a thread about Waves plugins not working.  Does anyone have any updates on this?

 
Not sure about Altiverb 6, but Elle did mention that her Wave plugins now work.

Lanceindastudio:
Ya know what would be awesome!? If JBridge or BitBridge set something up so that 32 bit DXi stuff could be bridged in on a 64 bit platform!

Jose7822:
There's really no point in doing that now. Most plugin developers are getting on track with 64 bit.

Except I want to use my Dreamstation in 64 bit.  I know there are DX to VST wrappers that could then possibly be bit bridged, but what about DXis?

Anybody know if Tassman 4 works now with the new bitbridge?

vanceen


In what way was jbridge integrated into 8.5.1?

I'm still using jbridge for the instruments I needed it for before, and I haven't noticed any difference.

You don't need to create any DLLs with .64 suffix
You don't need to create any txt files either.
Finally, you don't have to launch jBridger.
All you need to do to have the plug-in jBridged is
- open the cakewalk plug-in manager,
- select the VST/VSTi plug-in you want to be jBridged and
- click the Plug-in Properties button. Here you just tick 'Load using jBridge wrapper' checkbox.

Yes even if there are small bugs in SONAR 8.5.1 64bit, everything work like a dream!
Even Melodynebridge works now with the new bitbridge 2.0 if you use DX-wrapper version.

elle

vanceen


In what way was jbridge integrated into 8.5.1?

I'm still using jbridge for the instruments I needed it for before, and I haven't noticed any difference.

You don't need to create any DLLs with .64 suffix
You don't need to create any txt files either.
Finally, you don't have to launch jBridger.
All you need to do to have the plug-in jBridged is
- open the cakewalk plug-in manager,
- select the VST/VSTi plug-in you want to be jBridged and
- click the Plug-in Properties button. Here you just tick 'Load using jBridge wrapper' checkbox.

Thanks, Elle, I wasn't aware of that at all.

umd


If you really need to use your 32bit DX/i plugins in Sonar 64 bit, there's a way ( or at least that's one of the ways ):

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=177538

Wrap you DX/i effect in a  VST *.dll with polac's vsti/dxi/mfx wrapper and then bridge it.

I tested this with DreamStation DXi a while ago for curiosity, and it worked great, don't know how it will work with other plugins though, but it was interesting to know that it can work.

 
 
 
That's the one I use! =)
Working great and its free too
 
Here is Polac-main site, Press "More downloads"
http://xlutop.com/buzz/

mcdoma2000


Do you download the demo version of jBridge or do you get a link to download the non-demo version when he receives payment? I paid just a minute or two ago via PayPal, but don't know where to download other than the demo links...

Mark McDowell

 
You should recieve a full copy of JBridge on your email account.  It might take a while though.
 

Freddie H

 
The only bad thing with SONAR bitbridge is that, some graphic elements from the bridge-plugin goes behind the Bridgeplugin, like "SAVE"-splash "OK"-splash and so on...


Regards
Freddie

 

Yeah, that gets annoying.  The solution is to right-click on the hidden window's minimized form (the one found on the Task bar) and select "Move".  This will bring the mouse pointer on top of the title bar of said window so you can move it out of the way.
 
HTH

I'm still wonder?

So I'm curious, can someone give me an example that makes it better to use jBridge? What is the benefits with jBridge VS SONAR if it works with both bitbridge? Omnsiphere work with SONAR bitbridge...as example, work with jBridge too. Perhaps thinking on bridge my Nomad Factory blue-series...with jBridge instead if that works now? It does work with SONAR bitbridge now in SONAR 8.5.1.