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

[jancivil]

access to ram?

WHO KNEW

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so bones is set in his ways and others dont agree...if you cant make the point without you statements or name caliing you have no point to make.../end

edit: not directed at anyone but I feel like locking this now, I wont because I think melda wants to gather info...I ill delete any disruptive posts from this point on when I get home this evening

[BONES]

Hey! I've been on 64 bit for more than two years now, with three different hosts, I am anything but set in my ways. The thing is that in all that time I am yet to identify any positive outcome from the move. It's all downside as far as I can see and nobody else is providing any concrete evidence that their situation is any better. It's all based on the assumption that 64 bit is better and nothing more.

Argument from ignorance much? Rather gobsmacking in 2019 to see this.

And yet, still nothing. Seems the ignorance might be on your end.

I can lean back and relax in the knowledge that i'm future proof, and will able to use anything developers release in the future.

First of all, you can't possibly know that. What if Steinberg release VST 4 tomorrow and withdraw all VST2 and VST3 licenses? Your knowledge is actually assumption.

Secondly, the problem with being future proof is that it comes at the expense of your past. I'll deal with future problems as they arise but right now the problem I have is maintaining backwards-compatibility which is a problem I could not have dealt with in the past (when it would have been a future problem).

And in the knowledge that my plugins and hosts, if done right, use less CPU, and boot up quicker.

Do you know that for a fact? Because I can assure you the opposite is true for me, in both Orion and Cubase, and it has bugger-all to do with doing anything "right", it is simply a fact.

Apart from that, yeah, i really don't know much you could do with them which you couldn't do with 32-bit plugins. But then, what can your 32-bit plugins what your 16-bit plugins couldn't do?

There were never 16 bit VST plugins.

Or your DirectX plugins. Do you still use those?

I never used them. They were never necessary and you had no control over where they were installed.

access to ram?

Every computer I have ever owned has been able to access RAM, it's not anything new. Even when my PC had just 1MB of RAM I could still open 10MB documents. And that's what I am talking about - what does the ability to access large amounts of RAM actually allow you to do that you couldn't do before? The answer, as far as I can see, is nothing at all.

[dnekm]

In the end of things.... you do not require the latest a greatest (though you may think you do) - you work with what you have and have access to to make something that is hopefully usable to someone else. Or - in the case of music - enjoyable by someone else.

You work with the tools in hand to do what you want to do.

Disputing the merits of the tools in hand is a sign of not doing a damn thing.

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Hey! I've been on 64 bit for more than two years now, with three different hosts, I am anything but set in my ways.

well it wasn't meant as an insult, but you dont seem to want to take it in the manner it was intended...nothing new

from the 1st page of this thread

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

so
i'll lock it and keep it as a a reminder of yet another fine example of respect