jBridge

First of all, I can't believe that any of the major music software houses haven't at least tried to write/licence/include such an essential utility in their very expensive products. There are some that include compatibility with jbridge, but for it's very reasonable price tag, it pays for itself many times over if you consider replacing your collection of 32-bit plugins in order to work in a 64-bit host.

In my case I fell in love with Studio One 3 x64 after many years of being a Cubase user. There were just a couple of things bothering me. My Focusrite Liquid Mix and my EWQL Colossus are antique 32-bit abandonware but a regular feature of most of my productions.

So to keep this review short, I can confirm that jbridge can handle both with minimal tweaking on my Win7 x64 machine. Thanks J, you saved my ageing gear from the 32-bit bin for less than €15. Brilliant.

As for the tweaks, the first one is obvious cause it's in the instructions, but I missed it cause I was impatient and the plugins didn't work. You absolutely MUST set "run as administrator" in the file properties for jbridge and it's two auxhost files. I also set Studio One to run in admin mode. Once I had done this Colossus worked.

To get the Liquid Mix to work, I had to enable the "run in existing auxhost" option, otherwise I could only get one instance. Now it's running great even at low latency.

For functionality alone I give it a 10. It has tooltips but could use a proper help file, even in html or text or whatever.

Massive respect *****.