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VST 32-bit or 64-bit How to tell?
I likely have this in the wrong forum; please forgive me.
Is there any way to find out if a plugin is 32-bit or 64-bit? I have a few and I'm trying to figure out if they should be installed in either C:\Program Files (x86) or C:\Program Files.
A couple of these are the compressors Mike Senior talks about in his book, "Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio." However, there's no indication if they're 32- or 64-bit, at least, not that I've found.
Anyone?
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Re: VST 32-bit or 64-bit How to tell?
2013/12/18 17:41:11
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If you open a 32 bit plugin you will notice
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. Dots around the titlebar of the window.
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Check Beatscape, or dropzone, or VC64.
And if you open task manager you will see instances of bitbridge.
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Re: VST 32-bit or 64-bit How to tell?
2013/12/18 17:46:11
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also, if you look at the plugin list in the browser, the 32bit ones will be a different color.
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Re: VST 32-bit or 64-bit How to tell?
2013/12/18 18:02:03
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☄ Helpfulby rontarrant 2013/12/18 19:29:43
The above methods require that you load the dll into SONAR. If the question is how can you tell if it's a 64-bit file just as it sits in the file system, there are at least two ways to do that:
Method #1: If you have a hex editor, you can look at the file header. At byte offset 240 (0xF0) there'll be either "PE..d" (indicating 64-bit) or "PE..L" (indicates 32-bit). Works for dlls and executables. Don't know about other binaries such as drivers, though.
Method #2: Use a file-info tool such as the free Filealyzer (PE Header tab). This one's useful for other file types, too, even MP3s.
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Re: VST 32-bit or 64-bit How to tell?
2013/12/18 18:39:32
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Or you can just look in the plugin browser status bar in X3 when you select a plugin there :-P
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Re: VST 32-bit or 64-bit How to tell?
2013/12/18 19:26:50
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bitflipper
Method #1: If you have a hex editor, you can look at the file header. At byte offset 240 (0xF0) there'll be either "PE..d" (indicating 64-bit) or "PE..L" (indicates 32-bit). Works for dlls and executables. Don't know about other binaries such as drivers, though.
Yup, that's the kind of thing I was hoping to find out. Thanks, bitflipper.
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Re: VST 32-bit or 64-bit How to tell?
2013/12/18 19:29:37
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Thanks to everyone who replied. I guess I wasn't as clear as I thought I was in my explanation, but I need to know before installation. Otherwise, it's impossible to know where to install them when there's no installer.
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Re: VST 32-bit or 64-bit How to tell?
2013/12/18 20:03:14
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☄ Helpfulby LHong 2013/12/19 11:30:35
If its a general DLL you need to know this info about, the easiest way I know other than using Bitflippers hex editor trick is to use this utility. http://www.dependencywalker.com/ Load the dll in this tool and if its 64 bit the icon to the left of the dll will show "64" if its a 64 bit dll. If its 32 bit the icon won't show a number. Its surprising that there is no easy way to see this in Windows. Explorer should show this in the file properties.
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Re: VST 32-bit or 64-bit How to tell?
2013/12/19 06:54:40
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Nice utility! Of course as I am messing with it I drill down into the 32-bit plugs and the first one I grab is SFZ+.dll Eight of the supporting (truckload worth) dll's come up "Error opening file. The system cannot find the file specified (2)." With these errors in the status at the bottom: Error: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing export function in an implicitly dependent module. Error: Modules with different CPU types were found. Warning: At least one delay-load dependency module was not found. Warning: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing export function in a delay-load dependent module. Maybe I should quit playing with it... 
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Re: VST 32-bit or 64-bit How to tell?
2013/12/19 09:07:57
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☄ Helpfulby rontarrant 2013/12/20 05:18:17
Dont worry about those. Dependency walker shows a lot of info that is not necessarily a problem.
Delay load dependencies are not a problem until the app tries to load them. Dynamic loaded dlls are normally checked and there is a fallback. Its only a problem if the root dll's in the top left pane are shown in red.
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Re: VST 32-bit or 64-bit How to tell?
2013/12/19 09:08:04
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Dont worry about those. Dependency walker shows a lot of info that is not necessarily a problem.
Delay load dependencies are not a problem until the app tries to load them. Dynamic loaded dlls are normally checked and there is a fallback. Its only a problem if the root dll's in the top left pane are shown in red.
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Re: VST 32-bit or 64-bit How to tell?
2013/12/19 09:34:10
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Noel, that was my first thought, too. However, I did not mention it because Depends won't tell you anything about a 64-bit file if you happen to be running it in a 32-bit O/S.
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Re: VST 32-bit or 64-bit How to tell?
2013/12/20 05:18:05
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Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
If its a general DLL you need to know this info about, the easiest way I know other than using Bitflippers hex editor trick is to use this utility. http://www.dependencywalker.com/
Thanks, Noel. I'll give that a try, too.
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