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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 6:30 pm
by simoentropia
Maybe silly..
I own an old pulsar I board i'm very happy with.
I would like to buy a used pulsar two to epand in and out features of my system.
is it possible to use two different pulsar boards in sonar for example? any suggestion?
thankx
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:23 pm
by garyb
sure, that should work fine. you will need an s/tdm cable to connect the two cards.
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:26 pm
by hubird
just put the second card in an appropriate slot, connect both together with the required STDM cable, ready
it's all in the manual.
ah...too late
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Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:12 pm
by valis
Most of the better (intel/nvidia) motherboards on the market will support up to 3 cards. SFP.exe will automatically balance the dsp load among all 3 cards and make them appear as a single system to you. For example, assuming you have a Pulsar1 card if you add a Pulsar2 you will not only get 10 dsp (Pulsar1's 4dsp plus Pulsar2's 6dsp) but you will also get the lower latencies of the Pulsar2 and if you forgoe all audio i/o on the older card you will even get access to 96Khz samplerate. If you stay in 44.1/48Khz you will get the combined i/o of both cards at the same time all from within the same SFP routing interface.
The only 'sticking point' is that you will need to make sure that the system sees the Pulsar2 card as the 'primary' dsp card (the first it sees in your PCI chain) to get access to the lower ulli settings. If for some reason the Pulsar1 shows up first rather than swapping pci slots for the cards you can just add a few lines to your cset.ini file as shown in the manual.
Easy peasy...
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:15 am
by simoentropia
Thank you very much...