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Just confirmed.
Sound Forge 10 is still only 32bit. I just downloaded the most recent update 10.0.507 and it installs in Program Files(x86).
Glad you did....the 64 bit float part I didn't understand.
There's absoulutely no advantage to be had through SF being a 64 bit executable.
It's not likely you are going to be running a 4 Gb sample library or some such through it or indeed having more than 4 Gb worth of memory loaded up at once of stereo audio files.
Of course some of the 32 bit plugins you'll use with will be capable of handling 64 bit floating point math internally anyway but that isn't a concern for an end user or indeed make any tangible difference to the quality of the output.
Funnily enough I use the free-ware Audacity for encoding and sample rate conversion tasks because it is lightweight, quick and simple and the results are every bit as on a par with the big boys.
That one is a 32 bit executable too.
I think many of the Sonar boys were keen to get 64 bit versions of their DAWs installed just so they could whine about the problems caused by bridging 32 bit plug-ins with it.
I can understand the 64 bit for those running huge projects but I can probably count on the fingers of one hand when it's been absolutely necessary for me to have run a project on a 64 bit DAW since Sonar went 64 bit many years ago now.
Man, for audio editors some people still swear by Cool Edit Pro/Audition from the time Adobe took it on probably a decade ago, that one is most definitely 32 bit and many people still swear by its usefulness and functionality over anything that's come along since.
Soundforge is still a good choice for Sonar users because of the DX plug-ins that come with Sonar still work in the Sony product and vice versa.