OK...

I found their' website...

http://www.fx-max.com/fxt/download.html

From what little I've found, it is still 32 bit but a googling turned up some posts of people running it in 64bit OSs...

I believe I was beta testing it back then as I see it's not free though there is a 14 day download for trial...

Keni

Nope. I clicked on purchase and they went out of business and offer the code, so it is "free".
Thanks
Michael
 
Here's the code
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Thanks pentimentosound...

I used to use this as well, I have a license somewhere for it, and have always found it nostalgic/confusing when I use a 32-bit plugin (ever more rarely, these days) and it has the little FX Teleport frame at the top, even though I don't have that installed any more and haven't used it in years. It was... kind of OK. I guess it was always kind of a doomed stopgap solution given the speed with which raw computer power increases. I know at this point I would rather put money into a newer, better system (not very difficult in my case - my hardware is getting *very* long in the tooth) than a time and energy into setting up and navigating a networking solution. Been there, done that, got the postcard...

It shouldn't matter if all the machines are running the same OS... The commonality here is the Ethernet...

I ran a mixed system with it years ago... But that was before running everything 64bit...

What posts I have found claim that it works fine in 64 bit OS...

Remember that regardless of how much memory you have in each machine, the 32 bit stuff is still more limited to what memory it can use, so memory beyond the 4G limit to 32 bit OS will be the limit of what it can do... The good part is that you can add lots of machines and distribute your plugin's around them all as necessary...

As subtle hearts mentions, I too have so much memory and processor power these days that I no longer need to do this, but it's handy to have around "just in case"... ;-)

Keni

Isn't the 32bit memory limited a windows based OS limitation only.?..I saw a way to hack the reg, and make a 32 bit os of MS actually acknowledge 8gbs on youtube...Perhaps it could be addressed with a hack...But I am thinking more in terms of no os...Just a hack to a bios chip, to run the memory and cpu, through x port...if it can be done, it should be....and all that is then not wasted resources...and not used by any os or services to cause cpu interruption....and smoother game play....may be a resulting factor.
 
Imagine that...one os, running on its own 2 cores, and the drivers being cared for on another 2 cores of another system, and then another to run the DAW,...SELECTIVE PROCESSING!...JUST A THOUGHT AT THE MOMENT?....Cheers!

or make pci card with cpu sockets and controller..and a way to access that, just like SSDs....must be a way to use these cpus of old, tied to the new...or make something to add that selectiveness to the systems we have...to reduce the irq sharing hidden issues..MS makes happen, using only one cpu!
 

Yes...

Much as most of us use graphic cards with their own memory and processors...

When I run an all 64bit project in a 64bit OS, my eight cores run fairly even... If I add a few 32 bit plugins, I see the increase only on core 1...


But with 8 cores and 16G of RAM none of my cores ever reach much more than 10% in a typical 64bit project.... BTW... I'm referring to the OS being 64 bit here, not the record depth... All plugins processing as 64 bit...

My new/next (partially built) machine has more of everything... The need for external processing is no longer a demand...

Keni

swamptooth
something like vienna ensemble pro?

this - I heard this is working really well with VST daws.
Was even recommended this from devs of one of my plugin series.

If you really want to make use of your old hardware then an easy solution would be to set up a softsynth running in stand alone mode on the old hardware and feed it midi, routing the audio back to your DAWs audio input.  Just like you would any other hardware synth.
 
Modern processors have gained enough power now to make "render farms" for audio irrelevant.