[mike connelly]

I don't buy this excuse at all. It makes sense that it's impractical to update RTAS and TDM to 64 bit for whatever reasons. But that's no reason not to include 64 bit support.

Just make an app that runs in 64 bit with the new plugin format, and if you need to run RTAS or TDM plugins you have to run the app in 32 bit mode. Not the best for users but way better than not supporting 64 bit at all. At least users who have all the plugs they need in the new format can run 64 bit.

And if digi really wanted to they could create a bridge so the 32 bit plugins ran as an external process and just send the audio back and forth. Which is what all the other 64 bit audio apps have been doing for years. And if they really wanted to have 64 bit support this decade they could have gone with VST and AU instead of creating yet another new proprietary plugin format, since there are a good number of 64 bit plugins already on both PC and mac.

Same goes for hardware support of old stuff that can't be updated. Release a 64 bit app but with older hardware you can only run it in 32 bit mode. PT is hardware independent now, no reason to punish people who are running other hardware that has 64 bit drivers.