Subject:TC powercore and Acid

Posted by: Martian

Date:5/3/2005 9:45:19 AM

Im looking into buying a TC Powercore - Firewire and was hoping to get some feedback on the subject. Is it good/bad or is there some catches in using it with acid? I use E-mu 1820 soundcard.

Martian

Subject:RE: TC powercore and Acid

Reply by: DKeenum

Date:5/3/2005 10:08:49 AM

I can't address your question directly. I don't have the powercore. But I do think you may want to check the compatability of your emu card with the firewire.

Subject:RE: TC powercore and Acid

Reply by: Martian

Date:5/3/2005 10:17:24 AM

This is from the tc homepage

PowerCore and VST
PowerCore is compatible with all VST host applications, such as Nuendo, Ableton Live, Cubase, Wavelab, Acid, Sound Forge, a number of film- & post applications and more.
This means that you can use all PowerCore plug-ins within these programs.

PowerCore and AU
PowerCore is compatible with Apple's Audio Units (AU) format.
This means that PowerCore plug-ins will run in all AU compatible host applications such as Logic, GarageBand and a number of film- & post applications.

I know that protools has issues with the firewire model but where to find out about e-mu issues... Help :-)

MArtian

Subject:RE: TC powercore and Acid

Reply by: SHTUNOT

Date:5/3/2005 12:27:11 PM

Try here:

http://www.powercore.noheaven.com/

Ed.

Subject:RE: TC powercore and Acid

Reply by: Martian

Date:5/3/2005 12:47:39 PM

Okay a lot of adds/issues containing E-mu 1820 and TC powercore. Guess I have to try it out and see if im among the lucky ones :-)

Martian

Subject:RE: TC powercore and Acid

Reply by: jackn2mpu

Date:5/4/2005 11:32:00 AM

I.m using a Powercore Firewire with a Toshiba Satellite laptop (2.53 GHz P4, 1 gig ram, 200 gig Glyph external drive, etc.).Also running an Echo Indigo I/O PCMCIA sound I/O with no problems. You do have to run a bit on the high side with the latency, even with ASIO. TC recommends running 1024 samples, but I've run at 512 samples with no problems, and have even tried as low as 256 samples with only touches of sync loss. And sync loss is the major problem you'll run into with the PoCo. As regards firewire ports, you'll want to make sure you're running an interface with the TI chip set as the PoCo has isues with most other chip sets.
Looking forward to when EMU ships the new 1616m sound I/O setup. It's a PCMCIA card based system that allows you to just run with the card alone, or if you need more connectivity than just a headphone output, there's a break-out box setup that'll give you mic pres, MIDI, SPDIF, and so on.

Subject:RE: TC powercore and Acid

Reply by: Zacchino

Date:5/5/2005 4:44:20 AM

I saw what PoCo could do... But what about Universal Audio UAD-1 Studio Pak ?

Subject:RE: TC powercore and Acid

Reply by: Martian

Date:5/5/2005 1:42:41 PM

Is that also a series of plug ins or?

Maybe you have a link...

MartiaN

Subject:RE: TC powercore and Acid

Reply by: Zacchino

Date:5/5/2005 2:32:45 PM

Yep, almost the same stuff but a lot less expensive.

Universal Audio UAD-1 Ultra Pak

Subject:RE: TC powercore and Acid

Reply by: Martian

Date:5/6/2005 2:58:54 AM

That looks interesting. I kind of wanted to try the stuff out but there is no demo´s available at this time.... I think :-)

Have you tried any of the plugs?

MMartian

Subject:RE: TC powercore and Acid

Reply by: billybk

Date:5/6/2005 5:05:35 AM

Have you tried any of the plugs?

I have the entire UAD-1suite that I use with (2) DSP cards, in my DAW. I use the VST versions, in ACID Pro 5a, all the time and they work extremely well for me. You can typically get 8-12 of the more DSP intensive UAD-1 plugins going at one time, before you max out the available DSP, on one card. Some of my favorite plugins are the 1176LN, LA-2A, Fairchild 670, Pultec EQ, Cambridge EQ, EMT Plate 140, Precision Mastering EQ & Precision Mastering Limiter.

FYI:

Checkout the UA Webzine article archives. Lots of great info, on the history and real world usage of many of the UAD-1 plugins, especially the faithful emulations, of vintage classic hardware FX that is UA's forte.

Click on "Archives" from the rotary knob, on the upper left:

http://www.uaudio.com/webzine/2005/may/index3.html