Cakewalk’s BitBridge technology allows you to use 32-bit VST
effects and instruments when using the x64 version of SONAR.
Note that BitBridge server configuration is only available
in SONAR Producer.
32-bit VST effects and instruments are loaded into
“servers”, and each server can address up to 4GB of RAM.
BitBridge supports up to 32 independent plug-in servers, and
each server can address up to 4GB of RAM, allowing access to
a massive 128GB of RAM (the max supported by Vista Ultimate
X64). This allows SONAR x64 to address all available RAM in
your computer.
By
default, SONAR manages memory automatically, and will
allocate and allow access to all available RAM dynamically
as plug-ins are used. This is done by dynamically creating
new BitBridge servers only when necessary, up to a maximum
of the available RAM.
Server loading is either automatic or customizable, giving
you full control over which server to load plug-ins into. To
enable automatic server loading, select Automatic (Based on
available RAM). To manually manage BitBridge servers, select
the server that you want plug-ins to be loaded into. After a
specific server is selected, all plug-ins subsequently
loaded will be loaded into that specific server, bypassing
SONAR's automatic memory management. This also applies when
you load a project that contains VST plug-ins.
Custom server assignments are saved with the project file.
Tip: To more optimally use your available memory, assign
memory hungry VST's to their own private BitBridge server.
The actual memory consumed by a server instance is shown in
the server list, allowing you choose which server you may
want to load into.
Custom server assignments are saved with the project file.
Note: Server management is common for all loaded projects.
If you have multiple projects open simultaneously, you can
potentially overflow the 4GB capacity of a server if the
projects reference the same server. Under this condition, a
plug-in may fail to load. If this occurs, close the current
project before opening another project.
