Magma CB4 for sale or trade
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 11:03 am
Hello, fellow Zs!
As some of you know, I have been experimenting with the Magma expansion chasis in order to use scope cards on a laptop. I have had some success in doing this, but, as expected there's a significant drop in PCI bandwith when using the expansion rack. This mostly affects sample players, reverbs and delays, as they need to make more use of RAM, and there's also a decrease on the number of ASIO I/Os available. But synths, FX and other more DSP-oriented devices seem not to suffer so much with this situation, and I could always get a good poliphony performance out of the laptops.
I have installed and used SFP on an old Compaq centrino, via PCMCIA, and on a brand new MacBook Pro, via express-card to PCMCIA adapter. In both cases, the Masterverb test resulted in 5 instances before PCI bandwidth would be taken - my DAW would do 11 instances of MV. I have read about much better results than these here on PlanetZ, especially regarding Dell and Vaio laptops.
The thing is, I only need 2-slots, my new laptop provides express card 34, and I would prefer to have an external power supply, so I decided to sell this whole setup, to start heading in that direction. So, in case someone is interested, here's what I have:
Magma CB4 - 4 slot PCI host, 2U expansion chasis. This would fit 3 Scope Professional boards (just not in the bottom slot, because of a badly placed screw...)
Magma PCMCIA interface card - to use the chassis on a laptop
Magma PCI host interface card - to install on a desktop, to use with the external chassis - this is a small form PCI card that can fit smaller cases where 15DSP cards do not fit, for example.
Chassis comes complete with cables, cd and rack ears, and I would sell the lot for €650
-OR-
I would be willing to trade the chassis and one of the cards for a 2-slot in good condition, preferably with the external 100W PSU
-OR-
Make me an offer you think is fair if you're really interested! This is much less than what I paid for the whole bundle, but all is in excellent condition. I can post some pics too, if necessary!
Items are to be shipped from Portugal, so European Union buyers have an advantage here.
Feel free to ask any questions here, or via PM, and search PlanetZ for threads on Magma to get an idea of what this is about!
All the best, and
Much Peace
T
As some of you know, I have been experimenting with the Magma expansion chasis in order to use scope cards on a laptop. I have had some success in doing this, but, as expected there's a significant drop in PCI bandwith when using the expansion rack. This mostly affects sample players, reverbs and delays, as they need to make more use of RAM, and there's also a decrease on the number of ASIO I/Os available. But synths, FX and other more DSP-oriented devices seem not to suffer so much with this situation, and I could always get a good poliphony performance out of the laptops.
I have installed and used SFP on an old Compaq centrino, via PCMCIA, and on a brand new MacBook Pro, via express-card to PCMCIA adapter. In both cases, the Masterverb test resulted in 5 instances before PCI bandwidth would be taken - my DAW would do 11 instances of MV. I have read about much better results than these here on PlanetZ, especially regarding Dell and Vaio laptops.
The thing is, I only need 2-slots, my new laptop provides express card 34, and I would prefer to have an external power supply, so I decided to sell this whole setup, to start heading in that direction. So, in case someone is interested, here's what I have:
Magma CB4 - 4 slot PCI host, 2U expansion chasis. This would fit 3 Scope Professional boards (just not in the bottom slot, because of a badly placed screw...)
Magma PCMCIA interface card - to use the chassis on a laptop
Magma PCI host interface card - to install on a desktop, to use with the external chassis - this is a small form PCI card that can fit smaller cases where 15DSP cards do not fit, for example.
Chassis comes complete with cables, cd and rack ears, and I would sell the lot for €650
-OR-
I would be willing to trade the chassis and one of the cards for a 2-slot in good condition, preferably with the external 100W PSU
-OR-
Make me an offer you think is fair if you're really interested! This is much less than what I paid for the whole bundle, but all is in excellent condition. I can post some pics too, if necessary!
Items are to be shipped from Portugal, so European Union buyers have an advantage here.
Feel free to ask any questions here, or via PM, and search PlanetZ for threads on Magma to get an idea of what this is about!
All the best, and
Much Peace
T
