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Published on 05/06/02 at 04:36
6-DSP card with inputs / outputs Zlink, ADAT, analog, noon and SPDIF. An octopus cable allows
you connect the south and analog audio / SPDIF.
I use a Roland VM3100 Pro console connected via ADAT, a total of 12 in / out.
I kept wearing Zlink free extension for 8 In / Out Future ...
After suffering quite a plaster on my first card Pulsar I to 4 DSP mounted on a G3 B & W, I
Pulsar II spent on a G4/867 with 1GB of RAM and 100 GB hard drive.
This card is available in Pro version symmetrized and AES / EBU is what I had in Pulsar, but for the II I
SPDIF jack version because I had nothing to AES / EBU. The analog connector is in RCA jack
instead of the XLR on the Pro version.
UTILIZATION
Installation is fairly simple, just install the card and load drivers. The complication comes
over the implementation because the particularity of this map is to provide a virtual studio that will
set inside the house before the software interface to exploit its system.
On this point it is also better to add the 150 € extra and take the option to ProPack
enjoy the many additional effects and synth.
The paper manual is pretty basic, but the included CD offers a complete documentation GB format
PDF.
GETTING STARTED
Present version of the interface PULSAR, driver and management software is version 3.01, but I'm waiting
forward to version 3.1 which will enable to manage this map as a simple sound card and use
synths or effects associated directly inside of our favorite sequencer.
Version 3.01 fully supports Cubase, Logic and Digital Performer and all applications
Audio format support ASIO2.
The latency of the map is customizable, and its resolution. For my part I used 16-bit / 44Khz
with a latency of 23 milliseconds, which does not penalize me in because I do not feel ASIO2 delay
when I play a synth native.
The dynamic is quite good, the effects included too, and some synths card sound great. All
OVERALL OPINION
the interest of this map lies in the DSP that can be associated éttendre as a system
Protools TDM, adding maps Pulsar or Scope (more expensive). Pulsar card he y '6 and a DSP
Scope y'en it has 15. Advertising. Creamware DSP said that each card is a G4, I off on my G4/867Mhz
Launches FM7, Reason, Halion, Battery, and I still have the burden to put plug-ins effects, but the
Pulsar when I put an interesting synth and I told him a polyphony of 4 or 5 notes, I saturate
almost six integrated DSP, so do not rely too heavily on advertising. Creamware unless the manufacturer have
made these tests with G4/50Mhz ... that exist only in Creamware.
After having a Audiomedia III (which I still use Protools for), a Midiman 2044 &
Delta 66, a 1212 and a Korg Audiowerk II, I remain convinced that my Pulsar for a bright future ahead of it
provided that the pilot is to meet the devar be the case with version 3.1 expected in a day
another.
you connect the south and analog audio / SPDIF.
I use a Roland VM3100 Pro console connected via ADAT, a total of 12 in / out.
I kept wearing Zlink free extension for 8 In / Out Future ...
After suffering quite a plaster on my first card Pulsar I to 4 DSP mounted on a G3 B & W, I
Pulsar II spent on a G4/867 with 1GB of RAM and 100 GB hard drive.
This card is available in Pro version symmetrized and AES / EBU is what I had in Pulsar, but for the II I
SPDIF jack version because I had nothing to AES / EBU. The analog connector is in RCA jack
instead of the XLR on the Pro version.
UTILIZATION
Installation is fairly simple, just install the card and load drivers. The complication comes
over the implementation because the particularity of this map is to provide a virtual studio that will
set inside the house before the software interface to exploit its system.
On this point it is also better to add the 150 € extra and take the option to ProPack
enjoy the many additional effects and synth.
The paper manual is pretty basic, but the included CD offers a complete documentation GB format
PDF.
GETTING STARTED
Present version of the interface PULSAR, driver and management software is version 3.01, but I'm waiting
forward to version 3.1 which will enable to manage this map as a simple sound card and use
synths or effects associated directly inside of our favorite sequencer.
Version 3.01 fully supports Cubase, Logic and Digital Performer and all applications
Audio format support ASIO2.
The latency of the map is customizable, and its resolution. For my part I used 16-bit / 44Khz
with a latency of 23 milliseconds, which does not penalize me in because I do not feel ASIO2 delay
when I play a synth native.
The dynamic is quite good, the effects included too, and some synths card sound great. All
OVERALL OPINION
the interest of this map lies in the DSP that can be associated éttendre as a system
Protools TDM, adding maps Pulsar or Scope (more expensive). Pulsar card he y '6 and a DSP
Scope y'en it has 15. Advertising. Creamware DSP said that each card is a G4, I off on my G4/867Mhz
Launches FM7, Reason, Halion, Battery, and I still have the burden to put plug-ins effects, but the
Pulsar when I put an interesting synth and I told him a polyphony of 4 or 5 notes, I saturate
almost six integrated DSP, so do not rely too heavily on advertising. Creamware unless the manufacturer have
made these tests with G4/50Mhz ... that exist only in Creamware.
After having a Audiomedia III (which I still use Protools for), a Midiman 2044 &
Delta 66, a 1212 and a Korg Audiowerk II, I remain convinced that my Pulsar for a bright future ahead of it
provided that the pilot is to meet the devar be the case with version 3.1 expected in a day
another.