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MeldaProduction · Post by **MeldaProduction** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:11 pm

With the Catalina killing the 32-bit support (hence also PT 10, which is mostly used on macOS anyways), I'm thinking about dropping 32-bit support in general from the next major update of our plugins. Apparently many developers already release only 64-bit stuff anyways. Not that it's a big deal to release 32-bit plugins, it just makes the building slower and installers bigger. But I wonder, would you care?

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:16 pm

There's been a couple of such polls from developers before. And, it always came out that the vast majority is 64-bit only by now.

mike_the_ranger · Post by **mike_the_ranger** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:19 pm

Pro Tools user here on Windows. Though we're already using the newest PT and therefore 64bit, we have backup/legacy machines with PT 9 & 10 as well as old 32Bit plugins installed. Project recall is a big thing here.

waltercruz · Post by **waltercruz** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:19 pm

MeldaProduction wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:11 pm Apparently many developers already release only 32-bit stuff anyways.

you mean 64-bit?

MeldaProduction · Post by **MeldaProduction** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:20 pm

waltercruz wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:19 pm
MeldaProduction wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:11 pm Apparently many developers already release only 32-bit stuff anyways.
you mean 64-bit?

Ups sorry

MeldaProduction · Post by **MeldaProduction** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:21 pm

mike_the_ranger wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:19 pm Pro Tools user here on Windows. Though we're already using the newest PT and therefore 64bit, we have backup/legacy machines with PT 9 & 10 as well as old 32Bit plugins installed. Project recall is a big thing here.

Aaaaha! That would mean never dropping 32-bit support. On the other hand if the old versions keep working, that shouldn't be a problem, right?

mike_the_ranger · Post by **mike_the_ranger** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:47 pm

MeldaProduction wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:21 pm
mike_the_ranger wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:19 pm Pro Tools user here on Windows. Though we're already using the newest PT and therefore 64bit, we have backup/legacy machines with PT 9 & 10 as well as old 32Bit plugins installed. Project recall is a big thing here.
Aaaaha! That would mean never dropping 32-bit support. On the other hand if the old versions keep working, that shouldn't be a problem, right?

Indeed we're not gonna start new projects there

toonertik · Post by **toonertik** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:30 pm

32 bit DAWs I still use.
Cakewalk's Project5... Acid7 .. Soundforge11. No plans to upgrade them and will keep using them.
It's no problem for me if there are no more 32 bit plugins for these as I use them to do little things (the things they excel in or are quick for me) .. render and then mix in a big grown up 64 bit DAW..

AdvancedFollower · Post by **AdvancedFollower** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:04 pm

Nah, I've had 64-bit CPUs since 2003 (Athlon64), so 16 years now, and I switched to 64-bit OS and DAW as soon as that was feasible.

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:13 pm

I voted "everything is 64-bit"... in terms of DAW, yes. I have Jamulus linked to Reaper using ReaRoute. Reaper is 64 bit, Jamulus is 32 bit, and ReaRoute happily stitched them together.

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:25 pm

chk071 wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 8:16 pm There's been a couple of such polls from developers before. And, it always came out that the vast majority is 64-bit only by now.

They also tend to turn I to uglies over the e2 bit 64 bit debate...that has been well covered...here on the first page I am saying please stay on topic and the topic is NOT 32 vs 64 bit...I won't say it again...no offense pljones...nothing wrong with starting this thread

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:48 pm

I have voted "No! Everything is 64-bit here".

Actually it's not totally true, as I still use a very small number of 32-bit VST plugins... but they work perfectly with JBridge when I use Mulab 64-bit. And they work perfectly also in Cakewalk 64-bit which has its own transparent bridge.

So for me... no problem at all if you choose to stop the releases in 32-bit. I'm Ok for full 64-bit developments.

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:52 pm

I'm still using EnergyXT2 on my 64-bit machine. I plan to move to StudioOne when I upgrade to a new machine before Jan 14 (Win7 EOL)

BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:53 pm

Grammatically the title seems strange, no ?

I would have written "Poll: Who still uses a 32-bit DAW?"

But English is not my native language.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Tue Oct 29, 2019 12:01 am

BlackWinny wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2019 11:53 pm Grammatically the title seems strange, no ?

No.

KVR Audio

Poll: Who is using a 32-bit DAW anymore?

Do you need 32-bit plugins on Windows?