Is there ne1 without ne Problems with Pulsar2 ???

Max3020 · Post by **Max3020** » Sat Jan 26, 2002 6:55 am

Well since 1 year i had problems with pulsar and since another 6 months with pulsar2.

"pci capacity limit reached" - "Installation Error" - "crickling sounds on sts sampler" - "sample rate change block" and others.!

well i think Creamware need much better software engineers!!!
better and much more stabil software they need to do for pulsar.!!!

I really don't know why i did buy a pulsar!!
to have stress with it!!!

i read here many other problems too. and it seems like there is still not a stabil configuration for pulsar!
it seems like if i would upgrade to a better configuration that pulsar still will come on with other problems.!!!

i'm really confused what to do and really have enough with pulsar stress.!

Air_PoLLo · Post by **Air_PoLLo** » Sat Jan 26, 2002 7:03 am

And all the system error msg's....
I'm switching back to Digidesign ProTools on monday.
The mac isn't really a good platform for Pulsar. I might swich back once the 3.1 is released.
(I will install Pulsar on a PC for it's aux FX and synths)

[ This Message was edited by: Air_PoLLo on 2002-01-26 07:05 ]

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Sat Jan 26, 2002 8:03 am

I'm going to stop promoting Planet Z on the CW site.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sat Jan 26, 2002 2:06 pm

If you have a tech problem, please provide us all relevant information, as EarlyFirst mentioned here.
Your problems are easy to solve most of the time with some adjustments to your setup.

On 2002-01-26 08:03, Spirit wrote:
I'm going to stop promoting Planet Z on the CW site.

Why would you do that?

JoeKa · Post by **JoeKa** » Sat Jan 26, 2002 4:40 pm

What´s the deal? Buying Pulsar for a whole lot of money, and then plugging them DSP boards onto a lowcost via chipset driven MoBo won´t get you anywhere...
You can get a Ferarri custom-kit and mount it onto a VW Beetle´s chassis is just about the same. *g*

Be sure to have a good basis first. I have only my P3/500 and no more problems since the 3.01update, and 2.04a worked very fine, too. But I have a nice MoBo that still does its job better and more stable than many of the newly released ones...
Think about it, before you rumble about CW, guys.

algorhythm · Post by **algorhythm** » Sat Jan 26, 2002 4:54 pm

A motherboard costs $100; A pulsar costs $1000. think about it.

upgrade.

would you set a $600 camera on a $30 tripod?
Of course not; why put a $1000 soundcard in a crap MB?

I have a soundblaster live here. Maybe I could help your stress level out by trading? You could figure out the Creative card easy, promise.

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Sat Jan 26, 2002 5:17 pm

Atomic: I think maybe I'm helping to import the mood of the CW forum

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sat Jan 26, 2002 5:45 pm

A real bad thing is there's no search function, no logical browsing on Creamware's forum. This leads to lost of double topics and stupid questions. Brings it's level and efficiency way down. I never visited that forum, unless I really wanted to adress to creamware, like a public statement -?
I used to visit the yahoogroups a lot, until I understood the power of z. Since yahoo has started to throw in advertisements, I only visit it once/twice a week, and follow a little via daily reports.
Erik's suggestion to avoid all ads on your computer, is to work with mail as text instead of browsing on yahoo. I don't like to wait till I get the mails, cos then there's always a couple replying to the same message. Not very efficient either.

This BBS is the best solution, you can easily keep oversight of what's happening here, everything can be easily found,... that creates a better forum. We're working on solutions here without wasting time on browsing and searching.

Post by **garyb** » Sun Jan 27, 2002 12:50 am

for the millionth time.my rig works.you CAN figure it out if you don't get ahead of yourself and you are patient.cw products work very well.

Max3020 · Post by **Max3020** » Sun Jan 27, 2002 1:18 am

This seems like trying and trying again till u found the best hardware solution for pulsar.!

can anyone give me guarantee about a good pc configuration? without any problems?
no u can't.
cause creamware can not give it either.!
what i said is really a need for creamware.!
better software engeneers they need.!

think about Nvidia?
they release one software for more geforce chipsets and works good.!
something like this.!

algorhythm:
A motherboard costs $100; A pulsar costs $1000. think about it. upgrade

thats right.
but for this money do u know what u can get?
do u know about vsti plug-ins? as a solution for better synth performance. like using more synth sounds.or vsti samplers!

u can get for 500$ a second hand akai sampler wich is much more stabil then sts.!

well i think pulsar hardware will come stabil very good after 1 more year.!

Joeka:
there are also people who has much better configuration then yours and still have some problems. even my conf. is P3-600 512c
better then yours except p3v4x mobo.
but this mobo isn't a bad mobo it's just not working fine with pulsar cause it has the via apollo chipset.!

but do u know what? before i got this pc i asked creamware for a very good pc configuration. so i got this recommandation of creamware,especially asus board!

did u ever had a problem like bloking the sample rate of 44.1 with pulsar 1?
i had it. and it kept for months i did try everything re-install windows pulsar software,bios updates,different pci boards,many other things.
i sended it to creamware and it said its working 100% . and it came back but still the same.
so there must be something what pulsar don't like on hardwares.!

and with upgrading to pulsar2,another problems came with via chipsets. wich i didn't have on pulsar1

well there must be very flexible and stabil pulsar software for more hardware styles.!

i mean this card is really expensive.!
u buy it and u have stres.!
why???

i still have stress with it.!
i have creking sounds on sts3000
i can not work with it.!
i have a via chipset.
ok who could know that earlier that is not working with pulsar2
so i will upgrade and i'm still waiting for a very good configuration.
if u check this forum then u will see that people have also problems on higher configuration.!

so since almost 2 years i have stress.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sun Jan 27, 2002 3:18 am

You still have a VIA board!? So you know what the solution to your problems is hé.

sinix · Post by **sinix** » Sun Jan 27, 2002 3:26 pm

You want PC setups configured, shown and proven to work with Pulsar systems?

Easy.

http://www.infinitevortex.com

(I think most of us know this)

Hell, the guy is nice enough to post the *complete* specs of these systems right on the web page... you can go buy the same parts from someone else if you like assuming you have the ability to build/configure the machine yourself.

If I ran that site, I'd atleast make you call, fax or even email for the specs first!

- sinix

[ This Message was edited by: sinix on 2002-01-27 15:27 ]

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Sun Jan 27, 2002 5:58 pm

Native Instruments say the same thing about VIA. On their FAQ they say that they found it IMPOSSIBLE to remove clicks and pops from NI audio on a VIA. VIA is the culprit, it's no good for audio.

[ This Message was edited by: Spirit on 2002-01-27 17:59 ]

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 9:40 am

Midiman also lists issues with VIA chipsets and their Delta 1010, emagic lists this chipset as a problem for Audiowerk, the list goes on.. it's the PCI bus bug of the VIA coupled with PCI bus-intensive audio cards. All VIAs have this bug, but there are some workarounds. <a href=http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/>Check out this article.</a>

BTW maybe this is a tech related thread.

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 9:57 am

"The mac isn't really a good platform for Pulsar."

Now what is this??????
Mine runs like a clock. I had some problems initially, but found out that it was Logic that was the trouble. Never had any problems with the Pulsar. It never crashes!!!!!

That really hurt my feelings, man.

valis · Post by **valis** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 1:23 pm

On 2002-01-27 01:18, Max3020 wrote:
think about Nvidia?
they release one software for more geforce chipsets and works good.!
something like this.!

Actually quite a few of their driver revisions have had problems,
most notably the newest 23.xx drivers with both Intel and Especially
AMD AGP implementations.

i have a via chipset.
ok who could know that earlier that is not working with pulsar2

It was pretty widely advertised in the early days of the 4-in-1
problems that VIA's solutions are less than perfect. And
even after 4-in-1 after 4-in-1 it seems like it can be messy.
That alone would keep you away from their poor pci performance.

On 2002-01-28 09:57, jupiter8 wrote:
"The mac isn't really a good platform for Pulsar."

Now what is this??????
Mine runs like a clock. I had some problems initially, but found
out that it was Logic that was the trouble. Never had any
problems with the Pulsar. It never crashes!!!!!

That really hurt my feelings, man.

I don't know about feelings, but I'm wondering if he's got a G3?
No agp port on the G3, so it would be a bad idea to have your
gfx card in the wrong slot, just an idea.

borg · Post by **borg** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 3:35 pm

On 2002-01-28 13:23, valis wrote:

I don't know about feelings, but I'm wondering if he's got a G3?
No agp port on the G3, so it would be a bad idea to have your
gfx card in the wrong slot, just an idea.

could you please explain this a little further? i have a G3 b/w (450mhz/512ram) + pulsarII (v3.01 propack) and am trying to get the best out of my system right now. all seemed to work fine, except for some clicks while playing back audio tracks (cubase 5.1) after pulling the plugs on every unused electrical appliances (fridge, tv, vcr,...), changing ULLI settings (4 > 13 ms) and some other settings, the clicks and pops have gone

i hope to do some further investigation tonight.
someone mentioned 'agp' as well on another thread about clicks, but could not find it in my mac (using sherlock). what is it and what does it mean for my system?

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 5:10 pm

AGP is Accelerated Graphics, it's a quicker and more efficient way than PCI, for video only. From the mail above I understand that a G3 has not AGP slot. It's some other format than PCI/ISA... Latest revision is AGP4x.

Hey Borg, I'll be in Antwerp tomorrow, from dusk till down. Do you see a hole in your planning?

[ This Message was edited by: atomic on 2002-01-28 17:10 ]

mythalethe · Post by **mythalethe** » Mon Jan 28, 2002 8:03 pm

I have an ASUS A7M266 socket A with 1.4 athlon, 512 DDR and a geforce 3. I have never had a single hardware problem with original Pulsar and v3 on this machine.

If my cubase VST v3.6 was only half as stable... (I know, i need to upgrade :0)

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Tue Jan 29, 2002 6:32 am

"I don't know about feelings, but I'm wondering if he's got a G3? No agp port on the G3, so it would be a bad idea to have your gfx card in the wrong slot, just an idea. "

??????????
Say what ?
I have a G4 with AGP.
And it works excellent.
No problem what so ever.
Logic and Pulsar running like a dream.
No crashes in my studio, thats for sure.