Space Designer- 64 bit?

Hello friends,
Is Space Designer 64 bit when running in 64 bit mode? Altiverb is becoming problematic. Just curious. Thanks!

If Logic is running in 64-bit mode, then all of it's DSP processing code (remember, they are not plugins) are also running as 64-bit code.
This has nothing to do with the audio - Logic implements a 32-bit floating point audio engine, and this isn't not likely to change (it's perfectly adequate for this task).
When there are specific 64-bit optimisations in the DSP code I don't know. In any case, there are no functional or audio differences to Space Designer whichever addressing mode Logic is running in.

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