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I upgraded to DP 8 so that I could use most of my 16 gigs of ram for MachFive-3 as a plugin. Before the upgrade arrived I figured out that I could run MachFive-3 as a stand alone in 64 bit mode and trigger it with MIDI inter application. Problem solved, maybe.

DP 8 arrives and I find out that my favourite organ instrument plugin (VB3) won't run in 64 bit mode. Back to the drawing board but wait.....

I have found a work around.

1: I open DP8 in 64 bit mode so that MachFive-3 as a plugin can access my 16 gigs of ram (the whole reason I upgraded to DP 8 in the first place).
2: I open DP 7.24 with VB3 running.
3: I use the MIDI inter application capability to trigger DP 7.24 from within DP8.
4: I connect my SPDIF Out on my interface to my SPDIF In.
5: In Dp 7.24 I send the VB3 output to SPDIF and
6: Open a stereo audio track inside DP 8 with it's input from SPDIF

It's not pretty but I hope this helps anyone with a similar problem.

Thanks for posting that. To paraphrase Monty Python: every workaround is sacred.

Hmm.....wow!...... must try this for some other things, like some processing plugins that aren't being supported by some companies but are working fine in DP7.24.

Great workaround idea that might be very useful for some other things as well ?!?!