Definitely a good idea to go to your Toontrack account,and get the 64 bit installer,in fact it was "Bapu" who pointed this out to me about a year ago,so thanks,because,I could not get J-Bridge to work for me at all,and a real 64 bit version of EZ,is always going to be better than a bridged version.

That being said,I still use lots of 32 bit free/donation plugs,with Sonars bridge no problem.
Bob

Howdy BAPU & everybody... I've been to the Toontrack website and cannot identify the 64 bit installer. I know this is my error ... I did download the most recent update but that has not enabled me to use EZD in 64 bit X2 which is the only version I have on the laptop. Thanks for any help with this! Roy

Personally, I wouldn't bother. They are old and other plug-ins provide the same functionality or better.

I'm surprised you'd say this, Scott. You're assuming he doesn't have many years' worth of existing 32-bit projects that might be revisited. Surely you wouldn't advise him to replace the plugins in all those songs with new and improved 64-bit plugins and start remixing from scratch?

bitflipper

Personally, I wouldn't bother. They are old and other plug-ins provide the same functionality or better.

I'm surprised you'd say this, Scott. You're assuming he doesn't have many years' worth of existing 32-bit projects that might be revisited. Surely you wouldn't advise him to replace the plugins in all those songs with new and improved 64-bit plugins and start remixing from scratch?

Hey Bit,


Well, that's entirely different. Sure, in that situation, it would be useful to install the older plugs. I use my older DAW PC for access to older projects, but I know not everyone can keep older systems sitting around. Or some people are just upgrading the software on the same system.


Scott

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The way I am dealing with a new install under Windows 8 is to avoid 32 bit plugins as much as I can.

If a project opens looking for old 32 bit plugins I am going to replace them with 64 bit versions or totally new 64 bit plugins. 

Only in a very few instances where there is no 64 bit equivalent will I install a 32 bit plugin.

Now I have been moving to a full 64 bit system for audio for some years now and its not so hard to find good 64 bit plugins at this time.

The way I see it is there are only a few holdouts clinging to 32 bits in the VST developer world.