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I have Pulsar I + SRB I connected to Luna; "Pulsar+SRB" alone works fine, and Luna alone works fine too. But the whole system Pulsar+SRB+Luna don't works at 96 kHz, with the message: "Pulsar does not seem to have a STDM connection to the other board. Check the STDM cable". I've checked the STDM cable, and nothing is wrong with it. Does anyone has an idea to resolve this issue? Does anyone has the same problem? Thanks.

Did you resolve your problem?

Unfortunately not yet. I can't say if it's a hardware or a Pulsar/Luna software problem.

I got exactly the same problem with Pulsar1 + Luna2, Luna worked fine alone, same with Pulsar, untill I changed my memory for kingston certified CAS2 PC133, added a fan near the Luna (when linked with Pulsar Luna seem to generate a lot of heat), cleaned STDM connectors with pure alcohol, and moved Pulsar to PCI4 and Luna to PCI3, both with their own IRQ (even thou IRQ sharing of two creamware card IS recommended).

After all this, I've come to the conclusion that that was the heat that was a problem. Don't know if this help, but for me, Pulsar and Luna generate too much heat, and must be cooled. Since, not a single crash, nor any 'connection problems'.

PCI three and four, with a fan, huh? Different IRQ's? Right now I have Lunaii on my PIII's number two slot and Pulsar on number three...no extra fan...just STDM connecting both. Maybe I'll try it your way. I'd skip the LunaII software if I could figure out how to migrate the mixers/effects onto the Pulsar Card. But it's for sure that they don't like to run together on my machine. Can't open both, one after another. Either PularI doesn't like it or Luna doesn't. Why in the heck, even if Pulsar integrates "some of Luna" automatically, can't they be run separately. Hmmmmm.....

My system worked fine w/boards in slot 3 & 5
set to irq 11.When I added a board to slot 4 the system would run at 44 but not 96. Stdm error. I talked to paul at support and he said to try irq9. This helped at first, the board initially cranked up to 96 ok, but then the stdm failure message came back after 30 minutes. At that point I rebooted in safe mode and changed the IRQ of the usb universal host controller to 12 from 9, and placed a fan blowing directly on my pulsar cards with the case cover off. Now its good

Guys, please realize that MOST motherboards have different things happening across slots -- so talking about certain slots without mentioning a specific motherboard model/make is probably only confusing the issue. Also please note that it's suggested by Creamware that all your Creamware cards function most optimally when they are assigned to the same IRQ.

YES! marcuspocus, cooling is very important. You can get frusterating sync issues if you don't cool your DSP cards well enough. Thanks for pointing that out...

Also, it looks like most <a href=http://www.creamware.de/en/Products/Pul ... >Creamware cards don't SLAVE to 96Khz, but master at it just fine. </a> Perhaps that's part of the issue...

You're absolutely right. I'm using a P3Ce asus which has a very similar memory controller to the cusl2. Slots 3 & 5 are normally shared, I had the pulsar 1 in 5 and the pulsar II in 3 with IRQ's set to 11. When I added a 3rd pulsar1 in slot 4 the system wouldn't speed up to 96k. I changed the pulsar cards to irq 9, and changed in device manager the universal serial bus controller's irq from 9 to 12. I had to be in safe mode to change the usb controllers irq. I also put a fan directly on the cards. I'm able to run the pulsar as master or slave at 96k.

lifechanger,

You actually don't want to run Luna & Pulsar software on the same machine. If you have Pulsar, then you run the Pulsar ONLY, you'll have access to all the Luna devices inside Pulsar anyway. 2 ways I can think of to get the devices inside Pulsar --
1. Copy the devices from the Luna install into your Pulsar directory and load them in Pulsar. They might ask for a key, give it the Luna key.
2. Register your Luna @ the CW shop, and download the devices pre-registered to your Luna.


Interesting to know that the cards work @ 96Khz both master AND slave. Even if the Creamware website says differently

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I have the identical setup, Pulsar I + SRB I + Luna II, & had the same problem at all sample rates. The issue is completely resolved now thanks to either the lines added to cset.ini (as specified in the Luna manual) or the bug-fix patch for Pulsar v2.01 (I'm on 2.04a & assumed the patch was included but it may not have been since only a small portion of the Pulsar community has a need for it).

Hurray! Creamware France gave me the solution of this problem, for my system: edit the cset.ini adding the following line: [hw] numboards=3 . All works perfectly now. My motherboard is the Gigabyte GA7ix, with an Athlon 500 Slot A and 256Mo SDRam 100, and the system works fine. Before adding the Luna card and having this issue at 96kHz, I never had any problem with this system.