EWQL with PT8.0.3 on W7 64bit

[Ludia]

Hi all,

For days I'm collecting and searching info on the EastWest/QuantumLeap VI Play. I'm very much looking foreward to get me the bundle Complete Composers Collection. There's an online store in the Netherlands where I can get this deal below 750 Euros. Still a lot of money so I dived into it and stumbled onto this thread here....

http://duc.digidesign.com/showthread.php?t=207026

Now, a lot seems to be changed but there are still some unknow variables for my situation. The Sounds Online site claims indeed now to support RTAS but in case for PT only for 32 bit XP and Vista, for 64 bit it says n/a.
First question is does n/a suggests it's comming ? or is this due to the fact PT can handle only 32 bit ?
Fact is that when I installed OmniSphere which is also 64, it came also with a 32 bit dll and PT loads just that.

Looking a bit more on the Sound Online site I saw a free edition is available. So I downloaded and installed all 3 parts, starting with the 64 bit msi. Cool, I have a StandAlone app as well and that works as a charm, however loading the VI in PT gave me the exact same gui but I could not click one button in it. So, that didn't work.

Ok, I removed the whole shabang and went to install the 32 bit msi. The interessting part of this was that there was no way to install a StandAlone version of this and somewhere almost in the end there was a failure in some copy function due to DIFxAPI that needed the 64 bit version of it. Nevertheless it seemed installed so I went out to try the VI in PT.... yay, it works.

I was thinking on getting the best of both worlds and copied the play_rtas.dpm and play_rtas.dpm.rsr. Uninstalled everything again, did the 64 bit installation again and placed the copied files back into the plugin folder...... What-do-you-know..... I got the 64 bit standalone now and also the 32 bit version as plugin in PT . (It can be seen in the 'About' box of the app)

I got the free edition running so I'm happy so far. BUT !!!
Was this a correct way to get it running as neither Digi or EWQL support this ?

Is anyone else having EWQL stuff and got it running on PT 8.0.3 W7 64bit ?


Any suggestions are most welcome before I throw 750 Euro's out of the window, or have to wait for 1...2....3....years for a working solution.

Thanks in advance

Regards, Luc