TC Electronic Powercore FireWire Digital Signal Processor

Powercore FireWire Digital Signal Processor description:

The TC Electronic PowerCore FireWire digital signal processor provides audio professionals on the move with high quality audio processing on laptop or desktop systems. This addition to the highly acclaimed PowerCore platform offers almost twice the power of the PCI-card version. Now even complex mixes become a reality using just a laptop computer and one PowerCore FireWire.

TC Electronic PowerCore FireWire is the open DSP-platform for rackmount-quality processing inside any VST or AudioUnit compatible audio application such as Logic, Cubase, Nuendo or Performer. The TC Electronic PowerCore FireWire enables laptop users and professionals constantly on the move to take advantage of the wide selection of professional tools.

Even complex mixes are possible with just a laptop and one TC Electronic PowerCore FireWire, as it is offering almost twice the power of the PCI-card version! The unique combination of a floating-point PowerPC with 4 Motorola DSPs ensures tight integration into the native world at the same time maintaining all of the advantages that DSPs offer for pristine signal processing.

The TC Electronic PowerCore FireWire software and hardware provide the utmost quality and a future-proof design. Extremely power demanding tools like Mastering Dynamics, Reverbs and other professional virtual processors run on PowerCore without draining the host computers resources.

An array of powerful tools are provided right out of the box. The nine virtual processors included feature the most complete collection of dynamics processing available, including a virtual Finalizer (Master X), Vintage Compression and a Voice Channel Strip. Not to mention the two TC-quality Reverbs, Modulation Effects, EQ, Synthesis. Aside from the included software, PowerCore users may choose from the growing number of optional TC and 3rd party tools, featuring renowned brands such as Waldorf, Sony, TC-Helicon, DSound - and many more to come. Naturally, the PCI-card and the FireWire version of PowerCore may be used in the same system!

The main features of the TC Electronic PowerCore FireWire include:

• 4 x Motorola 56K DSPs running at 150 MHz
• 512kWords of SRAM per DSP
• 1 x Motorola PowerPC running at 266 MHz
• 8 MB DRAM for the PowerPC
• 3 FireWire pass thru connectors (to connect more than one device on one bus)
• Included plug-ins: 24/7 C, Character, Chorus Delay, ClassicVerb, DeNoise, Dynamic EQ, EQSat, Filtroid, MasterX3, MegaReverb, PowerCore 01, Tubifex, Vintage CL, VoiceStrip.