Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7/8/10 operating systems are available in two versions: the 32-bit and 64-bit edition. The main difference between these versions is the size of RAM that can be addressed by the operating system and applications.
Windows x86 (32-bit) version
Jun 05, 2019 32-bit plug-ins on 64-bit Windows: C:Program Files (x86)Common FilesVST2. Any other folder your VST host application is scanning during startup by default is also suitable. But, to keep plug-in installations independent from a specific VST host release, never install plug-ins into the program folder of the VST host application or any other.
A 32-bit operating system like Microsoft Windows Vista allows you to run 32-bit applications only, while each application can address up to 2 GB of the available RAM. Generally, all Steinberg applications are available as a 32-bit binary and can be run with 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Windows x64 (64-bit) version
- Oct 25, 2011 How to install a VST plugin in Windows OBEDIA. Drag and drop a.dll file for a VST plugin to install it on your Windows Music Computer running Windows 7. Depending on your host application.
- Gig Performer is a cross-platform (Mac/Windows) audio plugin host for both live performance and session musicians (keyboard players, guitarists, singers, drummers, FOH engineers) looking for an intuitive fast and flexible VST/VST3/AU plugin hosting environment for their software synths and effects.
The 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7 let you run 32-bit as well as native 64-bit applications such as Cubase 6 or Cubase 6 x64. Thanks to the OS built-in compatibility layer that allows 32-bit software to run on 64-bit operating systems, all Steinberg 32-bit applications supporting 32-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 are supported on 64-bit operating systems as well. The difference is once again the amount of RAM available to applications. While a 32-bit application running on a 64-bit operating system can address up to 4 GB of RAM, (which is already twice as much as under a 32-bit version of Windows), a native 64-bit application such as Cubase 6 x64 supports a much larger RAM capacity.
For many of its products, Steinberg already provides both 32-bit and 64-bit versions that are found on the same installer disc. This allows you to choose which version best fits your current requirements. Please note that if your installer includes the 32-bit version, but not the 64-bit version (such as Sequel), your product does support Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit / Windows 7 64-bit versions but is not able to access more than 4 GB of RAM at a time. If a native x64 application is also included, the system requirements on the corresponding Steinberg product page mentions that a native x64 version is included.
Please note that there are further differences between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Steinberg applications. For example, some components may currently not be available in 64-bit, such as QuickTime and Rewire. Generally, 64-bit VST hosts won't be able to run 32-bit VST plug-ins, but only native 64-bit VST plug-ins. However, Cubase 5 x64 can also support 32-bit VST plug-ins thanks to VST Bridge technology from Steinberg, which allows 32-bit VST plug-ins to run in a 64-bit host environment, Please note that compatibility issues may still occur owing to technical limitations in the bridging process. These limitations do not affect running 32-bit Steinberg host applications under Microsoft Windows Vista/Windows 7 64-bit versions and affect only native x64 host applications.
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JBridge works perfect, I use it since years and years, and I have never encountered any issue with it. There is absolutely no need to run it as administrator (when someone is constraint to run a musical plugin or a DAW as administrator it is because he has placed it in a folder protected by Windows [since Windows 7 several trees are considered as so important for the security of the system that Microsoft decided to protect them by default so that they should be altered only by installers, and it is also the reason why there is a tree named C:ProgramData to place daten used by the programs in another place than the programs themselves] or because he has not installed it exactly as it was intended to be). Since Windows 7 the best way to run musical plugins (and many programs in general) is to not install them in the tree “C:Program files” nor in the tree “C:Program files (x86)” but to install them elsewhere (where you want as long as it is not at least in these two folders). The best place is in your “Documents” tree or by creating a special tree for your needs. If the installers continue today to propose the tree “C:Program files” or the tree “C:Program files (x86)” by default it is for compatibility with the previous versions of the system (up to XP)… and these installers never forbid someone to change the installation folder/tree suggested by default. All my software stuff for music is installed in a dedicated tree named “C:EM” (“EM stands for Electronic music”) and all my software stuff for sciences (a dozen of big applications) is installed in a dedicated tree named ‘C:Sciences”‘ and the same for my dozen of programs of imagery (Paint Shop Pro, Corel Video Studio, etc.).
JBridge works absolutely perfect, it doesn’t require anything when you launch it in the purpose to add new 32-bit plugins and it doesn’t require anything either to do the job in a totally transparent way when using it in your 64-bit DAW to compose, play, or whatever you want. You don’t even remind that it exists and is running in background.
It doesn’t require any attention, it doesn’t add any latency, it doesn’t add any substantial need of CPU, it requires such a small amount of memory (a few Kb, that’s all) that it is totally forgotten by the musician even for the use of many simultaneous instances of musical plugins in his work.
And it is not for nothing that it summarizes more than 50 favorites on the KVR community as everyone can clearly see here at the top of the rightmost column of the present page.
This tool is a benediction to run any 32-bit plugin in a 64-bit DAW and with any number of instances you want and without any special authorization… the 64-bit DAW doesn’t even know that the plugin you run on it is a 32-bit plugin .
A top notch tool for all the amateurs of instruments and effects developed with Synthedit or Synthmaker/Flowstone.
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