SFP 4.0 with a MAC G4 dp and MAC OSX 10.3

raboz · Post by **raboz** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:32 am

Hi guys!
I'm wondering to use my "old" pulsar in a real commercial studio environment that I'm creating.

I've always used it on a pc platform and it worked smoothly.

Apple "pros" told me that I'd be considered a mad if I tryed to use SFP 4.0 with a Mac G4 Dual Processor / OSX Panther.

I would like to keep my pulsar that currently runs smoothly whit my Yamaha 02r and Cubase Sx 1.x !

Has any of you guys a REAL commercial studio experience about this topic/particular configuration?

Thks a lot in advance!!

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:34 am

SP 4.0 doesn't work in OSX, yet.

Look in this topic: http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... orum=5&111

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raboz · Post by **raboz** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:43 am

Thks!
So I wasn't mad but simply "un-informed"!

So I have to throw it away ... ?

May It works under os classic? If yes, witch software sequencer version might be used?

Best regards!

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 7:59 am

sorry, not at all - 'Classic' depends on the hardware layer of OSX which doesn't know anything about your card (yet).
On the software side it seems REALLY good in providing the 'old' environement, but that doesn't help here.

The most 'professional' way would be to route Pulsar stuff via Adat into OSX, for example using an RME board.
Your host for the Pulsar may vary - if you're only after synths ANY cheapo Powermac with PCI slots does the trick. I've tried it with an accelerated 7600, but anything from 200 MHZ should work.
If you need PCI bandwidth for heavy delay fx and reverbs you should at least have a G4, but even those are pretty affordable 2nd hand. Once SFP is transferred to OSX (there's a community project in progress) you may resell the 'aux' machine with little to none loss

cheers, Tom

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samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 9:04 am

On 2004-06-28 08:43, raboz wrote:
May It works under os classic?

Are you referring 'classic' to straight on OS9 or as Astroman suggested 'classic from osx'?

If the first (ie you boot in OS9) then you can use your Pulsar card

raboz · Post by **raboz** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:47 am

HI all!

Thanks to astroman "insight" effort in explaining me those important concept

I was really meaning Pulsar under OS Classic and not OSX emulation, but thanks anyway!

It might seem impossible but I've always used SFP 3.x via Cubase so I've never mind the latency between Pulsar Midi In > Adat Out.

Has anyone of you idea of how many "millisecond" it takes?

Thks a lot, you're all great and very very kind, it all gives the idea of "living" in a real community!!

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Wed Jun 30, 2004 4:15 am

The latency is, I belive, the one you can set in Pulsar's ULLI setting. So it depends on the frequency

I have the second setting (counting from top) and I really don't remember it since I haven't changed it for... 2 years? It's probably 4ms@44.1kHz