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TC Electronic PowerCore PCI

DSP Board from TC Electronic belonging to the Powercore series

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Published on 11/01/09 at 14:58
4 CaDance 100MHz DSP, has "sufficient" for plugs, reverb upscale ...
Ub used on powermac G5 2x2 GHz, 8GB of ram ...
Cubase 4

UTILIZATION

Mac OS X.4.9, nothing more simple, you install the card, thank you Apple for ease of access, insert the CD rom, we follow the explanations, and bump ... I had no compatibility issues ... Happiness

GETTING STARTED

No worries of use ... The only problem, the manual of plugs, French course, but too succinct, we groped a little time to know the "color" of each parameter is a bit like an empirical method, especially when it comes in specific settings TC electronics ....

OVERALL OPINION

I for 2 years. I opted for a UAD-1 plugs by some "reference", but I found this card at a price lower divinely ... The reverbs are simply gorgeous (it's still TC), the 247C is colored to perfection (he failure to his advantage, that it will not fit everywhere), the voicetrip is quite effective ... In short try, is to adopt, your mix can finally take the depth, the sound loses this aspect "chemical", cold, that we have with the plugs provided with cubase4 (some are nonetheless remarkable in certain situations), there is a little grain of some machines "hardware" reference ...

To discover the possibilities of reverb "made in TC", at a reasonable cost, there is no better ... But when you listen to a reverb VSS3, we begin to dream of powercore6000, and when it was, you break the piggy bank, and dark on the M6000 ... In short we need a beginning, and this card is a must to discover the world of DSP cards (this one is still dedicated reverb) as well as the timeless UAD1 (very complementary to me ...). You'll never work again with "Freeverb" and other ...