X1, 32 or 64 bit installation? moving from reaper?

Hi there,

coming from reaper...
I used different daws in the past, my latest daw, I'm happy so far, is reaper.
But there is one major  feature I'm missing so bad: Matrix view.
For my needs, I see a high potential in musical creativity, and I also don't see, that a comparable feature will be implemented in reaper in near future.

I also see,  that there a may people, complaining about bugs.
But it's time to decide, while sonar 8.5 producer including upgrade to x1 can be bought as a deal.
So I had to buy shortly and to wait, until it's stabilized.
In addition there is a smile for a nice and clean gui, pro channel, hopefully good usability, and I believe a lot of interesting features, I've never seen before.

Are there other reapers here, thinking the same way?
How are your experiences when moving from reaper to x1?
Is it hard, to swap?

Is there a need to go into the huge manual, or can one get used to it just by using it?

X1: 32 or 64 bit Installation?
I've a lot of virtual instruments and effects, many of them I'd like to keep using.
Most of them are 32-bit, while I'm running Windows 7 home producer 64-bit, no problems so far in reaper 32-bit.
In case I'd by x1, should I go the same way, so I mean: Install x1 as 32-bit?
Is there any loss in quality or performance, when using 32-bit version compared to 64 bit?

Can I install x1 32 and 64 it in parallel, or might that cause problems?

Many thanks for reading, helpful answers welcome
ThomThom

Welcome to SONAR;

You'll find that many if us have multiple DAWS; Reaper being just one of them.

At the moment there's quite a few complaints about SONAR X1 but we're confident that Cakewalk as usual will get the job done and the forthcoming X1b update should get us pretty close to a good stable release with an improved feature set over the X1 release of just 6 weeks ago. So don't sweat getting into SONAR.
 
I'd wait till X1b was released before installing so you don't have to cope with any of the main bugs and you'll also start fresh with some of the expected changes as part of the back lash from the X1 release being a little too early.

As far as 32 & 64 bit goes. there's no sound difference and a project made in one will play in the other. Your only issue is plugins. of course if a plugin is needed you can easily bounce that track down so you can bypass the need for the plugin. SONAR's Briodging technology is better than in the past but not perfect. many of us use jBridge and find it bridges most of the 32 bit apps that Bitbridge doesn't.
 
If you give us a list of your plugin we'll probably be able to tell you what should work.
YES you can run both 32 and 64 bit on the same computer without any hassel. though it takes a bit of planning to organise the location of your 32 bit and 64 bit plugins. But again theres plenty of help here with those little house keeping kind of chores. 
 
Many of us run both for the very reason that you may want to use 64 bit for the extra memory with big sample based projects and lots of intense plugins and many tracks but you may also want to REwire and unfortunately Propellorheads hasn't updated the Rewire libraries to 64 bit yet. the good news is that REX2 files now are 64 bit compatible and for many that's a big advancement. If you've got the PC by all means run a 64 biot OS ans run SONAR 32 bit if you want. It works perfectly well. The beauty is you get the choice. 

So go for it but as I said I'd wait till X1b before installing. that said many have few complaints and will say just go for it. depends on your rush and if you want to taske some potential risks.
I don't think its going to be hard to swap to SONAR. Reaper has a lot of personalization available in its setup whereas the whole shift in SONAR's design with X1 is for a simplification of the process and they've tried to make things logical to find and work with.

All the  best.

I suppose if you have lots of virtual instruments,32 bit is a good place to start to avoid any problems.
I run W7 64bit but use X1 32bit..purely because there's some stuff i didn't want to reinstall and it works fine.

regards,
dAVE B

Firstly let me thanks for supporting my questions.
Nice people here!

In many posts I saw people saying, the matrix isn't finished.

Too bad, that there is no trial version yet, so I could check my most important feature, the matrix view, first.

ThomThom


Firstly let me thanks for supporting my questions.
Nice people here!

In many posts I saw people saying, the matrix isn't finished.

Too bad, that there is no trial version yet, so I could check my most important feature, the matrix view, first.

Sign up for the groove3 videos - you'll see the matrix and all that it currently can do.  It may suit your needs just fine even though it is not Ableton Live yet.