Pros and Cons of Windows 7 64 bits for audio?

[Scottxx]

Do Lepou's and Onqel's amp sims work in 64 bits systems ?

I ask this because I want to take advantage of more than 3.25 Gb, but still use the best sims out there. That's because I'm building a new PC and don't know if there are more benefits using 64 bits or stay with 32. I own a Saffire PRO 24 and I will work in Reaper.

 

[drew_drummer]

Yes. I recently moved over from a hackintosh, to Win7 64. LePou's work in Reapers bit bridge perfectly. Dunno about Ongel.

 

[Charlez]

Yeah boy, I'm running Windows 7 64 bit and both Lepou and Onqel's amp sims work just fine.

 

[AudioGeekZine]

No cons I've found after a couple months. I don't run REAPER in 64 bit version. AdamWathan doesn't either (I asked him last week).
I only have 4GB of RAM fwiw. Most of the mixes i've done in REAPER have been really stable even running at 64 samples.

 

[Torniojaws]

At least with my Fireface 400, some channels occasionally lock up (no sound and no signal in Firefacemix), until I manually open the Fireface Settings program. After opening, there's a short pop and the channel works again. Usually this happens when I run two different sources at the same time, such as Foobar2000 (music player) on Analog 7+8 while watching Youtube videos with system default on Analog 1+2. The reason I don't have them in the same channel is because Windows 7 does some strange sidechain compression ducking if two different sources play at the same time in the same channel. When I split them up, it doesn't happen.

Other than that, no real problems. Except I still haven't tested multichannel playback while recording multiple channels too. In the summer, I had problems with Win 7 64 and Reaper 64 in this situation. I was playing live backing tracks (7 tracks) while recording 3 tracks (vox, guitar DI, audience mic), but the playback started to cut off every 10-20 seconds for 100 ms or so. Strangely the recorded tracks did not have any cut offs.

 

[Scottxx]

Thanks for the info guys! Anyone with more recommendations can help me a lot. I'm thinking to run Win 7 64 bits and Reaper 64 bits and still working with all vst that I use in Windows xp sp3 32 bits.

 

[drew_drummer]

Further to my last statement; I am running Reaper in 64bits. Runs perfectly.

 

[LeSedna]

I'm highly interested in your move Scottxx since I just bought a new computer that will come in a few days and will be running W7 64 bits and Reaper 64bits too. If everything works perfectly I don't see why I should stick to 32 bits especially because of the 3.25Gb limitation of RAM.

 

[Jind]

I've been using Sonar 8.5 PE x64 on a Windows 7 x64 install and I've yet to find an amp sim that will not work either over Sonar's BitBridge or the third party app JBridge.

 

[guitarguru777]

The only issue I have is the same Audio Ducking problem when 2 sources are played back on the same channel. Everything else is perfect, no driver or stability issues. Almost a year now with no Blue Screens at all.

 

[cloy26]

Yes. I recently moved over from a hackintosh, to Win7 64. LePou's work in Reapers bit bridge perfectly. Dunno about Ongel.

uh oh... why?

Mine has been acting like a bitch lately, especially with reaper.

 

[BrettT]

No cons I've found after a couple months. I don't run REAPER in 64 bit version. AdamWathan doesn't either

Ditto.

 

[darthjujuu]

No cons I've found after a couple months. I don't run REAPER in 64 bit version. AdamWathan doesn't either (I asked him last week).
I only have 4GB of RAM fwiw. Most of the mixes i've done in REAPER have been really stable even running at 64 samples.

i installed both, two icons right next to each other. bounce back and forth as necessary. win!

 

[drew_drummer]

uh oh... why?

Mine has been acting like a bitch lately, especially with reaper.

DAWBench had a hand in it

But mostly because I was using Reaper over Logic more and more, and was not getting any benefit from running a Hackintosh anymore. I was bored one day and figured I'd just rebuild my machine, so I did. Built it up as a 64bit Win7 machine, and it's running very smoothly.

 

[MetalJonesy]

i just upgraded to win 7 64 bit after a few chats with joey. It recognises all the ram which is great, its really quick and it seems now to be stable with PT9

 

[nex666]

I run Reaper x64 on Windows 7 x64, no reason not to run it in 64 mode that I know of..all 32bit plugins run in the x64 one..

Anyone want to tell me the advantages of using the 32bit/x86 version?

 

[Scottxx]

nex666 you dig exactly the point. What I want to have not problems with is 32 bits vsts specially guitar soft with Reaper 64 bits and Win 7 64 bits.

 

[Ermz]

Almost a year now with no Blue Screens at all.

If it weren't for the magic of Pro Tools, I could say the exact same thing.

 

[nex666]

nex666 you dig exactly the point. What I want to have not problems with is 32 bits vsts specially guitar soft with Reaper 64 bits and Win 7 64 bits.

Yeah personally I've never had a VST not work in Reaper x64, even 32 bit ones. Doesn't mean other people haven't had problems.

But I use all sorts of free/bought vsts (mostly the free side), but the usual amp emus, few of the mokafix ones, steven slate drums, kefir, all sorts of stuff..

 

[Scottxx]

Thank you nex666, thank you guys !