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No, it is a good question and I wouldn't mind a good answer.

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I bet you/we have to transfer the tracks to new VSTs.
I'll bet it will be a pain...
That's why I waited until now to go 64bit

mike_mccue


My old DAW is WinXP 32 and the one I hope to buy shortly will be Win7 64.

Is there any ability for SONAR to find and use 64bit VSTs when I open an old project that addresses the 32bit version of the same VST or will all the old data require a bit bridge scheme?

It seems like a dumb question... I've just sort of ignored the issue of the using bridges and waited and I am thinking maybe I can upgrade to all 64 with the few efx I use.



best regards,
mike

Hi Mike, I migrated to x64 a while back and from memory all the 32bit plugins were bitbridged automatically and worked fine (in my case anyway.) The old Cakewalk DX effects show up as missing plugins. So the answer is no there is no magic automatic find and replace for x64 plugs. HTH 

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I have a follow up question, does the so called Bit Bridge install automatically when you install the 64bit version of SONAR?

Bitbridge is invisible to the end user...
It's installed by default with the 64Bit version of Sonar.
Scan your 32Bit VST Plugins folder/s... and Bitbridge (automatically) handles the rest.


Bitbridge works ok with most 32Bit plugins.
For those rare instances where it doesn't, jBridge (3rd party bridging applet) often does and is ~$21

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