pulsar with laptop?

peripatitis · Post by **peripatitis** » Thu Aug 30, 2001 3:17 pm

Is there a way to use the pulsar card with a laptop system?

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Fri Aug 31, 2001 6:25 am

There is a PC-card to PCI expander by Magma http://www.magma.com that is tested by Digidesign and approved to run Protools on. I know that there was one guy running Pulsar on a laptop on the Creamware forum. This was on a Mac but it probably works on PC:s as well.
I have my doubts about the PCI performance of such a solution though. Pulsar is more PCI hungry than Protools as Protools has memory on the DSP cards and Pulsar has not. But if you don't run any reverbs it should work.

peripatitis · Post by **peripatitis** » Fri Aug 31, 2001 5:09 pm

Thanks jupiter for your reply , i have heard
about the magma system , however i am a little sceptic about possible latency problems that might occur with the use of a
pcmcia card for connecting it to laptop ,
have you heard anything about that?

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Sat Sep 01, 2001 1:37 am

There is afaik no technical reason to have latency problems with this setup.As long as the PCI bus keeps up with the load there is no problem. If not you get PCI overflows. I see no reason that there would be more latency.

JoeKa · Post by **JoeKa** » Mon Sep 03, 2001 12:10 pm

Are there any Laptops with real PCI-Slots?

algorhythm · Post by **algorhythm** » Mon Sep 03, 2001 3:35 pm

yeah, i read about a PC laptop with pci slots (2?) in computer music about 2 years ago. that is all i remember though. . .

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Tue Sep 04, 2001 11:28 am

Magma expanders work, the only limitation will be how much data you can push through the PCI bus, we all know Pulsar loves to hog as much PCI as you feed it, so depending on your needs, it may work, or it may not give you enough throughput there.

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