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I bought a Pulsar II ADAT and a syncplate card a while ago. I also have a Yamaha 02R mixer with 3 ADAT YGDAI cards in it. Now I want to connect them. I'm new at Creamware products and I feel I really want help from experienced users to make it work.

1. First of all wich recordingsoftware is most compatible with the pulsarsoftware.

2. I run pulsar on a PC, is the compability good with Windows 2000.

3. I heard from someone that Pulsar II cards is not compatible with AMD processors. I have a 1GHz Celeron II processor. Will this work well or do you recomend to change the processor.

4. Finally if you have experience of the Syncplate. Does it realy work with the Yamaha 02R. The closest thing I got to a syncsignal is 1 second sync, one second no sync and then one second try to lock over and over. I got an answer on an other forum to get rid of the Syncplate and sync via the ADAT cables instead. But shouldn't this work

Hello Ank, well… take it easy, it’s an intricate world and it’ll will take a while till you get to the point as you want, without problems. I had the same problem than you at the beginning, I didn’t know how to get everything together.

Answers to your questions:

1- Any mayor sequencer software you like it’s alright. All of them have strengths and faults. Choose from the main three: Cakewalk, Logic or Cubase. I personally prefer Cubase cos it’s just the one I’ve learned and it works very well, it’s an extremely resourceful program. I’ve used it for 5 almost 6 years now, and I just love it.

2- As far as I know and it is said in the Z forum, 2000 works fine. Nevertheless, it seems that the best working OS so far is Windows 98SE. This is too, the one I use. I would not upgrade till I’m sure XP is working well.

3- I don’t think AMD is incompatible with Pulsar, what you have to be careful is about Motherboards. I can’t recommend you to change your processor cos I don’t have the knowledge needed, but please, address this question to Subhuman, he’s an expert on what to use to go where. Read his posts: Go to search, go to author and write “Subhuman” and then search through his many posts all about processors, Motherboards and so on. If you do not what to do, then address a question into a new thread in Problem Solving Forum to his name.

4- Can’t help with the four question, I don’t know. Nevertheless, if I was you, I would find some help in a music shop, pay somebody to go to your studio and have a look to set all the connections up. Believe me, it’s much cheaper than being a couple of weeks trying out! We need help to get started, this is obvious.

Well, hope you’re Pulsar setup will be up and running in no time, and you’ll have a lot of fun enjoying it. Good luck.

Thanks Nestor

I hope I can calm down a bit now. I think I will use Sonar that I've been working with Sonar a little bit and a lot with Cakewalk. I will read some of Subhumans posts. Actually I've been reading some of them already. He seems to know what his doing alright.

On question nr. 4: have changed the 02r to sync slave?
It sounds like you have'nt.

Have you tried it the other way around with Pulsar clocking to the 02r?

If you have nothing else digital connected you can just sync them via the ADAT I/O.
It has sync built into the protocol.

Thanks for the reply Jupiter8

I think I have tried all thinkable cabling and master/slave configurations. But probably I have missed something out.

If you or somebody else familiar with this matter. Could you please write step by step how to sync the 02R with Pulsar II. If you got the time.

I have tried the support at the swrdish grossist and they are not that helpful.

If you're still attempting to use wordclock, be sure you have the proper wordclock cables and at least have a cable going from the Master device to the Slave device. Then set one device as Wordclock Master, and the other as Slave, and it will work.

Or, as jupiter8 mentioned, if you only have 2 devices, it might be easier to set one of the device as ADAT master, and avoid the wordclock connection all together... wordclock IS particularly handy when you have a range of digital devices which all need to sync to each other. In fact it makes it MUCH easier.

Zlink is even easier.

Thanks again

I must say this forum is great. I only have two devices in the chain. I will try without the syncplate.