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Creamware's Scope product family is based on
the Analog Devices SHARC DSP. Scope Project (Pulsar II) is an integrated
audio interface featuring 6 SHARC DSPs per card, while Scope Professional offers
an amazing 14 DSPs per card for an astonishing 2.7 GFLOPs of processing
power.
Available software includes a huge array of software synthesizers and
samplers, a powerful audio mixer, and a wide array of DSP-based audio
effects. The SRB add-on card for Pulsar / Scope systems add DSPs in groups of
either 6 or 14 for a total of up to 45 DSPs in a fully loaded system for
incomparable DSP power.
Today, Pulsar systems are established in thousands of studios all around the
world. Thanks to the flexibility and diverse features they provide, you'll
find them everywhere - from home-recording setups to the biggest Hollywood
film studios.
DSP Powered Music Production Environment
- the most successful virtual studio on a PCI card
The Pulsar 2 is a professional PCI soundcard featuring 6 SHARC DSPs plus
extensive analog and digital I/O. All that DSP horsepower allows the Pulsar
to provide a full-featured digital mixer, several software-based
synthesizers, effect processors, sample players.
The system features 20 I/Os (stereo analog, stereo S/PDIF and 2 x ADAT). Thanks
to the 24 bit/96 kHz AD/DA converters, the utmost in professional sound
quality is guaranteed.
If you require more analog inputs /outputs, the handy external converter Luna
2496 I/O Box will get the job done. Alternatively, a 24-I/O daughterboard with
three ADAT interfaces can be used.
In addition to the drivers for ASIO, EASI, MME, DirectSound, tripleDAT, OMS
and Sound Manager, version 2.0 software includes an ASIO 2.0 driver.
Furthermore, the Pulsar II board is equipped with the newly-developed Ultra
Low Latency Interface (ULLI), which also features hardware-based ASIO
support. The ASIO driver latency can be adjusted to a minimum of 2 ms (!),
thus enabling the configuration to be fully optimized for the host computer -
including the more-powerful computers which the future will bring.
The Pulsar provides a way to offload the mixing and (some of) the effects
processing load from your CPU. You can still use your favorite DirectX
plug-ins inside your audio application (upstream of the Pulsar), and then let
Pulsar's digital mixer handle mixing and any other EQ, compression or other
effects you wish the Pulsar to provide.
There's more to I/O than just the physical I/O connectors on the card. Most
multi-channel soundcards simply provide a stereo WAV driver for each pair of
physical inputs and outputs on the card. The Pulsar allows the user to create
'devices' that correspond to external hardware that is connected to the card
or virtual devices and WAV drivers to interface to your audio application. The
user have the ability to configure the Pulsar by drawing virtual patchcords
between audio sources (devices) and the mixer. Each patchcord represents one
channel of audio, so a stereo device, like a WAV driver, would be connected
using two virtual patchcords.
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And if one Pulsar doesn't meet your demands, the S/TDM Bus
(Scope Time Division Multiplex), an extremely fast interface for internal
connection, allows it to link several cards (Pulsar, PowerSampler, Luna,
Scope).
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The Pulsar user can immediately benefit from the large library of around one
hundred optional software modules, which were developed by CreamWare, by
third party developers such as SPL and Sonic Timeworks, and by SCOPE users.
Specifications
- PCI-board for PC and Mac
- 6 x Analog Devices SHARC DSPs
- 20 I/Os (2 x ADAT, SMUXS/PDIF, stereo analog)
- 32 bit internal bus resolution
- 24 bit I/O resolution
- 96 kHz operation on analog and S/PDIF
- MIDI- In/Out/Thru
- S/TDM bus (Scope interconnect)
- 32 channel digital-mixer and various DSP effects
- Virtual DSP studio effects, synthesizers, sampler
- MME drivers (allowing 16 x Wav/32 audio devices), ASIO-, EASI-,
GigaSampler-drivers
More about Pulsar
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