Hello.
Long Time no see!! I have to reformat my drive and reinstall everything. Is XTC mode worth installing? I remember trying to use it once before and I got messages saying that it doesn't work while Pulsar is running. Can anyone shed any light on this please? The trouble is that if I don't have Pulsar running, I won't have a soundcard.
Please help.
Is XTC Mode worth installing?
Further to what stardust was saying, and in relation to your concerns about not having a sound card...
In XTC mode (when you exit SFP) there is still an ASIO driver running that details all the Ins and Outs of your Pulsar. It's actually a little nicer because the XTC ASIO driver properly names each I/O port. Not as flexible with routing, but if you don't need routing flexibilty....who cares?
There are more heated arguements on this forum than one can count, but what it all comes down to is personal preference. If you prefer to work in your host VST software environment, for example: Cubase and you use more VST plugins than Creamware Plugins in the SFP environment, then XTC is for you. The only catch is you can't use it with a Dual CPU computer....horrible months and months and problems...don't try.
I personally prefer the XTC style of working and since I realised my Dual Xeon PC hasn't made friends with my Luna II EX or my 14 DSP Booster, I instead bought two UAD-1's and a TC Powercore Firewire and I'm now loving life. However, what I have to say in defence on SFP mode is that the 48bit mixers have lovely-sounding summing....much better than Steinberg summing....MUCH! So if you prefer to use SFP mode then you can rest assured you've got summing that's on-par with ProTools (which is good).
Have fun,
Cheers,
AudioDan
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: AudioDan on 2005-10-17 06:51 ]</font>
In XTC mode (when you exit SFP) there is still an ASIO driver running that details all the Ins and Outs of your Pulsar. It's actually a little nicer because the XTC ASIO driver properly names each I/O port. Not as flexible with routing, but if you don't need routing flexibilty....who cares?
There are more heated arguements on this forum than one can count, but what it all comes down to is personal preference. If you prefer to work in your host VST software environment, for example: Cubase and you use more VST plugins than Creamware Plugins in the SFP environment, then XTC is for you. The only catch is you can't use it with a Dual CPU computer....horrible months and months and problems...don't try.
I personally prefer the XTC style of working and since I realised my Dual Xeon PC hasn't made friends with my Luna II EX or my 14 DSP Booster, I instead bought two UAD-1's and a TC Powercore Firewire and I'm now loving life. However, what I have to say in defence on SFP mode is that the 48bit mixers have lovely-sounding summing....much better than Steinberg summing....MUCH! So if you prefer to use SFP mode then you can rest assured you've got summing that's on-par with ProTools (which is good).
Have fun,
Cheers,
AudioDan
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: AudioDan on 2005-10-17 06:51 ]</font>