Power Pulsar any News?

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Mon Oct 29, 2001 7:45 pm

anybody had a chance to play with it?
Any opinions?

Alex

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Mon Oct 29, 2001 9:22 pm

It kicks ass, but ProPack just kicks ass in general (PulsarMixer is sweet with 24 channels visible at once)... what do you want to know about it?

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Tue Oct 30, 2001 4:21 am

I want to know how would you compare it to Pulsar II Price/Performance

mano · Post by **mano** » Tue Oct 30, 2001 5:46 am

Pulsar II = 6 DSPs for 1100 dollars
PowerPulsar = 15 DSPs for 2400 dollars

enought said!

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Tue Oct 30, 2001 8:40 am

More DSP perr $ with the powerpulsar and better upgradeabillity if you want to end up with an extreme multiDSP system.

Pulsar2 gives you extra ins/outs, when you rach the same amount of DSPs.

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Tue Oct 30, 2001 9:41 am

At this current time, the PowerPulsar is probably the best deal of all the Creamware products... At least until ScopeSP V3.0 is released

A normal Pulsar2 will take take you very far, with only a little DSP swapping to use it for everything. PowerPulsar you will use in almost the same way, but you can be lazier about keeping tight control on the amount of DSP you can use.

Some of the things you'll do with a PowerPulsar, is load up a synth like LightWave (DSP intensive), and give it 16 voices, then load a Mixer, and the STS sampler... whereas, with a Pulsar2, you can't get 16 voices on the LightWave, so you'll use like 8, and it will fill your card -- so you record it to .WAV and remove it, then load a Sampler/Mixer project, etc.

Really, a Pulsar2 will handle quite a few tasks for you in the studio, just as many as PowerPulsar -- but not as many at once.