In my case I am a hobbyist using mostly free vsts and haven’t come across anything that is not 32bit. I don’t have the full version of Kontact and use TX16WX as my sampler and have not come across any 4GB plus sample libraries that I want to use but if I did as others have said it would be easier for me to just bridge 64bit for that one plugin.Zexila wrote:Sure, just like with bridging 32 bit plugins, but than he have higher latency and still use more CPU, so this way he actually wins.chk071 wrote:Well, he may have lower latency, but bridging will use more CPU. Not really a win-win situation, but his decision of course.
Of course people’s experiences vary and if it wasn’t for latency I would have gone 64bit a few years ago but I just thought I would share my reason for staying 32bit since it is not always fear of change, incompetence, lack of funds/hardware or other negative reasons.
I have Reaper on two machines, a mini-ITX media PC using onboard audio (ALC898 which is surprisingly good) to which I connect a keyboard and mic for live playing/singing (where latency is important) and a laptop (well a mobile workstation really 32GB RAM Core i7 4800MQ) with a Nanoface audio interface that I use for anything non live. I keep both at 32bit for consistency.
Perhaps at some stage there will be a really compelling reason for me to switch to 64bit although I admit I don’t welcome the chore of reinstalling everything!