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Here my setup (picture follows if possible):

System:
Asus P4B533
Intel P4 1800Mhz
512MB DDR-RAM PC2100
nVidia Riva TNT II Pro, AGP 4x, 32 MB
20 GB Seagate HD
80 GB Seagate HD
DVD-Rom
40x12x48 LiteOn Burner
Realtek Network Card
6x USB 2.0(2x Front, 4x Rear)
2x Pulsar 1 (Slot 2+4)
Pulsar Pro Pack
STS5000
Transient Designer
Poison
SB404
Modular 3
SFP 3.1c
WIN 2000

Programs:
Cubase VST 5.1 r1
Storm 2.0

Other:
Monitor 19" Sampo
Genelec 1029A
Onkyo Hifi-Amp
Sennheiser e2270 Headphone
Midiplus 61 Midi Keyboardconroller
Marshall 30th Anniversary Top 100W
Behringer UB1002
Johnson J-Station
Fender Squier Stratocaster (Japan ´80)with Seymour Duncan Humbucker
1 Kramer Strat
1 Czech Jazzguitar build in 1964 with Zoller-Pickup

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The Z Station Components

CREAMWARE BOX
- Chassis: InWin Q700 Full tower, 300watts, 3 fans
- MoBo: Asus CUBX v1007
- Proc: Pentium III 700MHz E
- RAM: 512MB PC100
- Video: ATI Xpert 2000
- CD-ROM: AOpen 52x
- Floppy: TEAC 1.44MB
- Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7.2K rpm 15.3GB ATA66
- SCSI: Adaptec 29160
- CD-R: HP 6020i (SCSI)
- Removable: Iomega 1GB Jaz (SCSI)
- SCSI HD1: internal Quantum 2GB UW
- SCSI HD2: external IBM Ultrastar 9GB 10K - rpm U160
- HDR: tripleBOARD II (ISA)
- DSP: Pulsar II Plus
- OS: Dual boot: Win98SE & WinXP Pro
- Network: D-Link USB port (WinXP only)

APPLICATIONS
Win98SE (tweaked for audio)
- SCOPE Fusion Platform 3.1
- Pulsar 3.01b
- tripleDAT 3.06
- tripleDAT 3.11b
- Logic Platinum 5.1.3

WinXP Pro (not tweaked)
- SCOPE Fusion Platform 3.1
- Pulsar 3.01b
- Logic Platinum 5.1.3
- Office 2000 Professional
- Network agents
- Winamp 2.80
- Music Match 7
- Windows Media Encoder 7

So far, so good....

Here's a pix of my old setup (circa 1998). I'm currently relocating and will post a new pix when available...




Salut!
TZS


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: The Z Station on 2002-06-04 12:22 ]</font>

Finally got my pix up, see previous post...

Currently relocating, new pix will follow when available...





<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: The Z Station on 2002-06-03 20:37 ]</font>

nice rug....

hi guys

Pulsar1
Gigabyte GA-7DXR+
AMD XP1800
Maxtor 80 Gb ATA133 7200 rpm
512 Mb DDR ram
Matrox Millenium G400

SubMasterVerbTest - 4/5

3 masterVerbs before "master PCI overflow" appears. 4 masterverbs total.

p4b266 motherboard
p4-1.8 processor
512mb DDR nanya
LUNA II
LUNA I/O box
40gb seagate barracuda 7200rpm
60gb maxtor 7200rpm
video asus gforce2 32mg V7100 magic SI
realtek network 100/10mgps
cdrw LG 32x
Roland A37 midi controler
Roland DS90-a monitors

Pictures to follow later.

System works *PERFECTLY*

Intel 2.4ghz (533)
Asus P4B533
1gb Corsair XMS DDR333
2x WD 120JB HD
Sony CRX1610 cdrw
Linksys NIC

Creamware Pulsar II Classic
Steinberg Midex8

AMS gTower Case
380w Anatech PSU

Midiman Oxygen8
Fatar SL-161 Controller

Alesis Andromeda
Access Virus-B
Studio Electronics ATC-1 (on loan)

Mackie HR-824 Monitors
Sony MDR7506 Headphones

Soon to be added:

Studio Electronics ATC-1x
RME AD-8 Converters
Lucid DA96 Converter

Software:

Steinberg Cubase SX
Steinberg Attack
NI Reaktor 3.x
NI Battery
Wavelab
Misc. Plugins

Creamware Software:

STS-5000
ProPack
Zarg Pro-One

On 2002-06-03 20:34, The Z Station wrote:
Finally got my pix up, see previous post...

Nice composition
I just wonder, how exactly did you get rid of all your cables?? My wife would love a cableless setup in my home-studio

Hi

For the last week or so I've been playing with my new system..

[Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop]
1.2GHz P3
512MB PC-133 SDRAM
Intel 815 mobile chipset
32MB GeForce2Go AGP graphics
1400x1050 TFT

Magma CB2S 2-slot PCI expansion with SCSI
( http://www.magma.com/pci/pci_2slot_main.html )
2x PulsarI cards
SFP3.1a (running at 13ms latency - PulsarI minimum)
Windows XP Pro (tweaked)
Logic 5.2

Basically it works very well

Seen 1 or 2 PCI overloads but it's only happened when loading DSP's (loading a device or changing no. of voices), not during playback.

It's working solid enough to make me abandon my previous CUSL2 setup I'm sure it wouldn't pass a heavy Masterverb test but to be honest that's not important to me... it runs heavy projects just as well as my CUSL2 did, with lots of routing and delays and other effects like Tdrive, 1 or 2 verbs, 1 or 2 monosynths, and 1 or 2 modulars (depending on what they're doing).

Intended use is Logic+Pulsar for mobile use, and, in the studio, using as a standalone pulsar box hooked up to the ADAT connectors on the RME Hammerfall in my AthlonXP Logic box.


peace

As I posted a couple of questions / problems, it might be useful to put my setup here.

DAW:
Athlon XP2000+ (boxed)
Asus A7N266-C
512 MB RAM
IBM 40GB, 7200 (Windows XP Home, Programs)
IBM 60GB, 7200 (Data, Samples)
LiteOn DVD Drive
Pulsar II
Pulsar XTC
Matrox G550
D-Link Network Adapter
19" Rack Mount
2 X NEC 95F Monitor

Software:
Windows XP Home Edition
Cubase SX 1.03
Halion
Kontakt
FM7
B4
Pro52
VST Drum Sessions
The Grand
Virtual Guitarist
Various Sample-CDs (Drum loops, etc.)
Waves Bundle
SFP 3.1c
SEKD Sonoscope

Additional Equipment:
Fatar Masterkeyboard 88 Keys weighted hammer
Houston Midi-Controller for Cubase SX
Waldorf MicroQ
Line 6 Pod Pro
Midiman 2x2 Midi-Interface
SPL Headamp
SPL Keymix
Fostex Digital Patchbay
Sony DAT 760
Philips CD Burner
Ibanez Artist Guitar with Seymour Duncan Pickup
Crafter Acoustic Guitar with Fishman B-Band Pickup

The Pulsar Cards run in XTCmode with 7ms latency. With that setup I can run 10 Masterverbs with one (!) Pulsar Card. I did not try how many MVs are loadable with two cards.

I record directly from SX into my DAT. The Cubase SX Master-Inserts are:

1. GraphEQ
2. PsyQ
3. Optimaster
4. UVhr22 (Dithering)

At the same time I have the SEKD Sonoscope loaded (analyzer) to "see" my music (thank you at0mic). The DAT-Recordings (only the nice ones) are then burnt on CD.

PC:
AMD Athlon XP 2600+
ASUS A7N8X
1GB(2x512) DDR333
ATI Radeon VE
Nokia 449Xa monitor
Seagate Barracuda ATA V 80GB
Hewlett Packard 8100 CD-RW
Logitech internet keyboard
Microsoft mouse
Enermax case and power (VERY SILENT!)
SCOPE /SP

(Notice, no floppy drive )

Software:
Windows XP Pro (fully tweaked)
SFP 3.1c
Emagic Logic Audio
Cool Edit Pro

Other equipment:
Roland JV-1010
Roland JX-305
Roland JV-90
Roland VA-7
Alesis QS8
Korg N1R
Edirol UM-880
Midiman Oxygen8
Johnson J-Station
Ibanez RG-470

Edit: Addition:
Genelec 1030A

Edít2: Latest addition:
Behringer DDX3216

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MAIN WORKSTATION:
Dual 1.8Ghz Xeons (Prestonia's-512MB L2 cache)
512MB RDRAM (2x256 Samsung)
Supermicro P4DC6+ motherboard
(dual u160 SCSI & Intel Pro 10/100 LAN onboard)
Supermicro Tower w/ 420W P.S. &
7 low-noise adjustable rpm fans (inc. 120mm exhaust)
1 10000rpm 18Gb Fujitsu u160 SCSI HD [Appz & OS]
1 10000rpm 36.7 IBM Ultrastor (u160) SCSI HD [Working Audio & Swap]
60 Gb Maxtor 7200rpm ATA-100 IDE HD's [Storage]
old Plextor 8/20 CDR/W
Asus 40x generic CD-Rom
Geforce4 Ti4600 Dualhead
Pulsar2 with XLR/BNC i/o & Pulsar1 classic i/o (10dsps thanks to RedMuze )
22" Hitachi OEM monitor @ 1600x1200
MS Intellimouse Explorer
MS Natural Keybd
Wacom 12x12 ArtzII tablet

Apps:
Logic Audio Plat 5.5.1 & Exs24 & Sounddiver
Wavelab 4.x, Recycle, CDXtract
Tons of VST & Dx plugins
Csound/Melodyne/ (for fun)
SFP-3.1c (ProOne, B2003, MiniMax, Interpole, Optimaster, PsyQ, Vocodizer, GraphEq, Vectron, All the Orbitone stuff, Adern's lovely FLEXOR, Pro Pack, etc...lots of freebies!)


OUTBOARD:
Soundtracs PC MIDI SOLO 16x8 (32 inputs total with monitor ins)
Mackie HR-824 nearfields
Roland MA-8 (micro monitors)

Access Virus Kb
Yamaha FS1r
Roland JD-800
Novation Basstation Keybd. (original, not rack)

Pioneer DJM-600 & 2xTechnics 1200mk3d turntables
Texas Instruments Speak&Math (original owner, can't find my speak & spell)




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not in image:

SOFTSYNTH SUPPORT:
Intel P-3 @ 500Mhx
512Mb pc133 sdram
Asus p3bf mobo
Matrox G400 (single head)
Maxtor 30Gb Ata-66 IDE HD
Maxtor 40Gb Ata-100 IDE HD
Sony DVD-Rom (great for sampling through sp/dif into the pulsar )
Asus 40x generic cd-rom
Sblive running kxdrivers (using 16 asio chans mixed to the 2 stereo outputs)
Enermax 350W dual fan low noise P.S.
17" Princeton Graphics monitor

SOFTSYNTH BACKUP (& Girlfriend entertainment pc)
Intel P-3 @ 500Mhx
512Mb pc133 sdram
Asus p3bf mobo
Geforce2 Ultra 64Mb
Maxtor 30Gb Ata-66 IDE HD
Plextor 12/8/24 Cdr/w
Asus 40x generic cd-rom
Sblive running kxdrivers (using 16 asio chans mixed to the 2 stereo outputs)
300W P.S.
Wacom 9x12 ArtZII Tablet

Apps:
FM7, Reaktor, Csound, MAX/MSP

Both 2nd & 3rd pc connected via KVM to:
MS Intellimouse
MS Natural Keybd
19" Viewsonic monitor

and both summed to: Mackie 1202 vlz pro




<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: valis on 2004-01-30 21:41 ]</font>

hi, a bit late, but here's my studio.
I'm proud Hans Zimmer came by just when I made this picture...





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Let There Be Music!


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: hubird on 2002-10-29 22:56 ]</font>

On 2002-10-29 22:53, hubird wrote:
hi, a bit late, but here's my studio.
I'm proud Hans Zimmer came by just when I made this picture...




_________________
Let There Be Music!


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: hubird on 2002-10-29 22:56 ]</font>

Congratulations Hubird!!!!!

The next time he comes by YOUR studio..would you get an authograph for me please..??.


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: snoopy4ever on 2002-10-30 11:34 ]</font>

Okay here it is, make sure you sit well so you don't slide to the floor under the table:

Via Epia C3 800MHz
Pulsar 1+
256MB
60GB IBM disk

Thats it. The pulsar costs about 3x the rest of the pc. But it works, it is the first pc I could get the pulsar working in without the usual messages, so there it will stay.

My setup :

PC 1) [Main Scope Workstation]
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Windows XP Pro SP1
P4 2.53 GHz
ASUS P4B-533
1 GB DDRRAM PC2100
60 GB IBM 7200 RPM HD
60 GB IBM 7200 RPM HD
Plextor CD-RW 40x12x40x
DVD-ROM PIONEER 106
G550 Matrox (...it will be a Parhelia soon!)
2x LG 563 LE LCDs (3x LG 563 LE when the Parhelia will come here...)
SFP 3.1c - FULL SP Setup+Vinco+Timeworks Bundle+Modular3
Scope/SP (24 ADAT)
Pulsar2 (24 ADAT)
Pulsar2 (16 ADAT + Classic I/Os)
RME ADI8-AE (limited edition)
RME ADI8-AE (limited edition)
Creamware A16
Creamware A16
Emagic Unitor8 mkII+AMT8 USB(cascaded for 16 MIDI I/O ports)
Emagic Logic Audio Platinum 5.3 + All plugins
1x Logic Control + 3x Logic Control XT (32 P&G faders in total)
Realtek 100 mbit ethernet card


PC 2) [Gigastudio PC/Softsynth's RACK/Video Editing/DVD-Authoring]
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Windows XP Pro
P4 2.4 GHz
ASUS P4B
1.5 GB SDRAM
G400 DH+RAINBOW RUNNER
1x LG 563 LE Display
PCI Firewire card
60 GB IBM 7200 RPM HD
60 GB IBM 7200 RPM HD
PLEXTOR 24x10x40x CD-RW
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-A04
SFP 3.1c - ProPack Setup
Pulsar2 [16 ADAT Classic I/Os hooked to main Scope system through 16 ADAT I/Os]
Gigastudio 160 v2.53.00

MAC) [Protools TDM system for recording/post-production]
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G4-867
1.5 gb ram
60 GB IBM 7200 RPM HD
120 GB IBM 7200 RPM HD
120 GB IBM 7200 RPM HD (in a firewire external box)
Protools 24|MixCube TDM System
ADATBridge 24bit
ADATBridge 24bit
1622I/Os
RME ADI8-PRO
RME ADI8-PRO
MOTU MP-AV SERIAL (running great with G4Port by griffin-technology)
Protools TDM 5.1.3cs2
Protools TDM 5.2 (with DigiStudio)
Logic 5.3 (with TDM+DAE support+ESB)
MOST TDM plugins
DAE 5.1.1cs3
DirectConnect5.1.1cs10
Digidesign Control24 (BIG&GREAT ethernet CONTROL surface)

MONITORS
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2x Genelec 1031A
2x Mackie HR-824
2x EVENT 20/20bas
2x Yamaha NS10M+RA100 Alesis

PRE:
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16 FocusRite classA pres on Control24+2 DI-Inputs
TLAudio VP5051
AVALON 737SP
Mindprint Envoice+spdif out
Line6 POD

OUTBOARDS:
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LEXICON PCM80
LEXICON MPX1
TC-ELECTRONICS M2000
TC ELECTRONICS Finalizer Express

SYNTHS/KEYBOARDS:
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KORG TRITON
KORG MS2000
NOVATION NovaII Keyboard
Waldorf microQ-Keyboard
Kurzweil K2500X FULL EXPANDED
Yamaha MOTIF7
Yamaha EX5
Yamaha CS15 (Vintage)
Yamaha CS6x
Yamaha AN1x

EXPANDERS
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Roland XV-3080
Yamaha MU100R
ACCESS VIRUSb
Novation Drumstation
Novation Basstation
Korg Wavestation SR
Korg M3R
Oberheim Matrix1000
Yamaha TX16W
Yamaha TX81Z
Roland JP8080
Waldorf microQ-Rack
Access Virus-RACK Classic


ALL ANALOG I/Os (I/Os / converters / control24 / PREs / Effects) are hooked into 4x192 point patchbays for "easy" routing of everything to everything else.

ADAT Bridge 24 + Gigastudio PC hooked to main Scope workstation.

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NOTE: ALL *LEGIT* SOFTWARE/PLUGINS AND 2 LICENCES OF LOGIC AUDIO PLATINUM 5 + PLUGINS (+ ESB ON MAC PLATFORM).
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That's all ...

regards
sYm

PS: I am still having lots of unexpected DSP overloads due to the huge amoount of DSPs and I/Os on my system... i hope Creamware will consider PRO users too... The system with only 1-2 boards and a few I/Os (20-25 I/Os) is almost perfect .


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: sym90 on 2002-11-04 17:53 ]</font>

My setup is like this:

4U ATX case w/350w PS
Asus CUSL2-BP w/1Ghz P3
512 Mb CL2 PC133 SDRAM
Matrox G450 Dual Head AGP
Creamware Pulsar 2 (PCI 2)
Intel eepro100 (PCI 4)
Adaptec 2930 SCSI (PCI 5)

20Gb disk to boot and run SW from
60Gb disk for audio
Pioneer ATAPI DVD drive
Yamaha SCSI CDRW
Edirol 4x4 USB midi

Using this setup with Logic 4/5
Acid Pro2/3
Wavelab 3
Cooledit Pro 1.2/2
ProTools Free
Cubase SX
Kontact, Absynth, Battery, Reaktor
Various other noise software....

So far this entire system has worked great, and the only problem I had with logic stopping ASIO looks like it may be mitigated by using higher prioroty on the logic app.

-terrac

This is my system:

Made by a group of musician and engineers called AREA 51UK, located in the surroundings of London. Excellent team! You can reach them here: http://www.area51uk.com Wide range of custom built music PC systems and Laptops designed for Recording Studios. Designed by musicians for musicians.

Name of the system: Area 51UK S4 Pro Tower.

CASE: A especially Midi tower shielded case for Pulsar, no noises at all.

CPU: P III 550 (which is still not too bad)

M. BOARD: Intel 440BX AGPset

HDs: 2X IBM 13 Gig EDI - UDMA (extremely reliable drives, 5 years of heavy work already. BTW, I always thought they were 10 Gig each…)
MEMORY: 512 PC100 mixed trademarks (nevertheless, without problems)

GRAPHICS: ATI 32 Meg Rage Fury AGP

NET: DFE-538TX Fast Ethernet (which is not very friendly cos slows down the machine specially when booting)
RECORDER: Yamaha 6416S INT SCSI CDRW + Adaptec 2904 SCSI Kit (fantastic drive, very reliable)

READER: 50X max

CARD: Pulsar I Plus (the fact of being the Plus version avoided me many headaches of possible noises, for a little more)
MONITOR: SONY Triniton Multiscan 210ES. Very pleasant graphics. I can work the whole day and my eyes are practically not tired.

External equipment:

My beloved Bass Washburn Series 1000, 4 strings, an incredible instrument! I tried so many instruments with big names, but… nothing especial happened, with this one things were different. The pickups have been modified and are extremely powerful so I can get the maximum performance with very little power, so less noise when recording.

Yamaha electric guitar RGZ 312, I love this instrument so much! It was difficult to reach what I like. I tried hundreds of guitars too, before buying and nothing would feet my absolute taste, this one stands it and more!

KORG X5 Music Synthesizer AI2 synthesis system variable digital filter multidigital effector 32-voice polyphony keyboard, old, but nice, I still use it and love the Wavetable sounds it has.

MONITORS: SONY SRS-A60 (to reach the needed headroom) YAMAHA YST M-100 (covering the rest of the spectrum, but I miss some more bottom nevertheless) Synthesiser HD 200 headphones (not too bad for monitoring, even if they are not of great precision) SONY CD 250, quite good headphone. I use them when mastering, as a way of contrasting with the HD200 cos they sound quite thinner, in the Sony ones fatter, the level of detail is different in both of them. So you can hear certain things you would not with the other and the other way around.

MIXER: Midiman MultiMixer 10. 10 channel mixer multimedia. (Crappy but very useful almost noiseless 20X10 centimetres, so very small as well)

AMP: Joemeek ProChannel VC3 (wonderful and absolutely irreplaceable, an absolute MUST!)

MICROPHONE: AKG C1000S, absolutely recommended even if already quite old, it does everything and it does it well. It’s still quite cheap too.

CABLES: SOLEX OFC noiseless cord. Recommended!

OS&PROGRAMS: Windows 98SE – Cubase 5.1r – Wavelab 3 – Pulsar 3.1a – All freebies plug-ins for Pulsar offered here in the Z – the wonderful GAM from Celmo, my preferred plug-in ever – Endless VSTi freebies, some very useful and effective, some just to have some fun making useless noises – many VST plug-ins coming from Computer Music magazine – word processor, browser, internet protection, defragmenter.

WHAT MORE: An indescribable need of MAKING MUSIC!!! ALL THE TIME!!!

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: nestor on 2002-11-26 23:39 ]</font>

allright hold your breath...

dell dimension 8200 1.7 ghz
512 ram
luna2 + pulsar2
logic 5.2
behringer eurorack 602a
behringer ultragain pro
ADK a-51
v-amp
roland jv-1010
gibson sg std
olp mm-2 bass
epiphone wildkat
epiphone les paul
enrique keller nylon guitar
ibanez pf300 ce elec/acoustic guitar
peavey classic 30
fender pro-sonic 4x12
koss pro 4/aa headphones

not the most high-end equipment you'll find but i'm still a happy camper

Finally, I am the proud owner of a <stable> non-clicking or popping system...knock on formica...

Asus P4PE/L*/A
P4 2.4 (533)
512meg OCZ DDR333 (1 stick)
ATI Radeon 7000, 64meg
Western Digital 30gig 7200rpm
IBM 40gig 7200rpm
LG 32x cd rom*
HP 7200 series burner (Yikes!)*
Floppy (call me paranoid)

PularII Classic
LunaII
SFP 3.1c

Running: Win2000
Cubase 5.1 (whatever the most current non-beta version is)

*disabled for recording
mobo's onboard audio off.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: revel8or on 2003-02-10 06:21 ]</font>