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Has anyone tested Pulsar with the UAD-1. It seems like it´s not really sure how the UAD-1 is working together with other dsp-cards. Please let me know if you a working Pulsar-UAD-1 computer.
Thanks

sorry, only another one who´s also interested in this issue pulsar + uad. have done the reverb always native, first offline in cakewalk, now realtime in logic, but the quality of the native reverb is not convincing.
now i want to get some specialised processors, and world´s best reverb algorithm... all on the uad-1

I looked into carrying this card, but they couldn't gaurantee compatibility with any other cards other than the few listed on their website - and Creamware cards aren't one of them. I won't be carrying this brand for a while longer until someone has the chance to test it with Creamware, RME or MidiMan ...

Amptown on the Creamware forum says with Scope+PulsarI+PulsarII and the UAD card, he is not experiencing problems... good news

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Hi all,

I'll have the UAD card in 2 days time, so I'll get back to you with any problems I should experience...

<B>My configurations:</B>

PC1:
MB: ASUS CUR-DLS (SERVERWORKS chipset)
Dual pentium III 1000 mzh

PC2:
MB: ASUS AJA266 (ALI magic chipset)
Athlon 1.3

PC3:
MB: ASUS K7M (VIA KT133 chipset)
Athlon 800

SOUNDCARDS:
1 x Pulsar I
1 x Pulsar SRB
2 x Pulsar II
1 x Scope/SP
YAMAHA SW1000XG
KORG OASYS

VIDEO:
MATROX G400
Creative Geforce 1 & 2, RIVA TNT

Hi,

Well, i got my UAD...

Configuration tested so far:

ASUS AJA266
ATHLON 1.3
384 MB APACHER RAM
MATROX G400

SOUND:
SCOPE/SP
PULSAR I
UAD-1
WINDOWS ME

PULSAR PROJECT:
SCOPE/SP MIXER
2 X TIMEWORKS REVERB
1 X SCOPE CHORUS
1 X SCOPE DELAY
1 X SCOPE PITCHSHIFTER
1 X TREE'O'TREE
1 X STS5000
4 X ADAT
32 ASIO IN/OUT
VARIOUS MIDI

So far i experience NO problems with the UAD & creamware stuff together... no PCI limit or other creamware faults.

Boy - UAD sounds GREEEEEAT. The absolute best EQ's i have tried ANYWHERE, hands down... and the compressors are absoluty astonishing recreating of their analog counterparts. The delay stuff (chorus/flanger/room simulation) WOW!!! The reverb, well this is not a standard reverb, so I'll have to try this a little more, before saying anything, sound mighty fine, first impressions, though. This is TOP-QUALITY.

BUT... there are some strange issues rigth now. The audio in cubase & nuendo gets delayed when you insert FX (not send FX). And my CPU is working hard (really hard!) when I apply UAD FX. These things are well know by UAD, and is solved by the next software upgrade.

I'm used to nearly unlimited resources on my SCOPE/PULSAR boards, so i guess i'm a little spoiled, but with UAD you run out of fuel pretty fast.(32 EQs, 16 comps, 3 realVERBS). Wish they had put two of their custom chips on the board.

I'll go make some music,

say ya all

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this sounds quite cool, thanks for the report. this sounds like uad will be a good solution for getting more quality verbs in our mixdown...
but i wonder about the latency of such a system - the signal goes from the sequencer via the driver (1st latency) to pulsar, where it gets into the mixer. there it goes thru an aux way out again, back to the sequencer (2nd latency), where it gets routed to the uad, again via a driver (3rd latency). there the fine reverb is processed and given back to sequencer (4th latency), which routes it back to pulsar via asio (5th latency)... wow.
or do i get something wrong, and i can save some of that time? i can´t imagine that all these latencies can be compensated by the sequencer, or is it just like that?

thanks for clearing up my sight...
Mo

On 2001-08-11 04:59, Mo wrote:
but i wonder about the latency of such a system - the signal goes from the sequencer via the driver (1st latency) to pulsar, where it gets into the mixer. there it goes thru an aux way out again, back to the sequencer (2nd latency), where it gets routed to the uad, again via a driver (3rd latency). there the fine reverb is processed and given back to sequencer (4th latency), which routes it back to pulsar via asio (5th latency)... wow.
or do i get something wrong, and i can save some of that time? i can´t imagine that all these latencies can be compensated by the sequencer, or is it just like that?

well, I dont wanna get too technical here, but when the new drivers from UAD is released, the only latency should be that of your system, AKA pulsar... Maybe some time they will provide software that could run the plugins latency-free, somehow!!!