TC Electronic Powercore 6000 Firewire Powered DSP System

Powercore 6000 Firewire Powered DSP System description:

The TC Electronic PowerCore 6000 makes the same award-winning System 6000 algorithms used by high-end mastering studios and Oscar-winning sound designers available for your DAW.

TC Electronic PowerCore 6000 includes world-renown classic reverb, vintage emulations and source-based reverb and you have full access to MD3 multiband dynamics for no-compromise mastering, precision brickwall limiting and unsurpassed stereo to 5.1 conversion.

PowerCore 6000 uses the same DSPs you will find in System 6000. The unique combination of a floating-point Power PC with 8 Freescale DSPs ensures tight integration into the native world while at the same time maintaining all of the advantages that DSPs offer for pristine signal processing. This ensures the same high quality of processing as you’re used to from the hardware world.

PowerCore 6000 features an SRAM based memory design that supports high performance reverbs like the VSS3 Stereo Source Reverb, DVR2 Digital Vintage Reverb and NonLin2 Stereo Effects Reverb.

The VSS3 Stereo Source Reverb is a genuine and original reverb directly ported from the System 6000. The VSS3 algorithm was researched and fine-tuned by TC engineers for over a year, resulting in an exceptionally precise tool. Similar to the chaotic response of a natural room, the VSS3 reacts differently to identical signals.

MD3 Stereo Mastering: MD3 can be regarded as a high-end mastering tool. M and S components of a stereo signal can be processed separately and provide even more control making full use of the Spectral Stereo Enhancer. Dual Mono and Stereo dynamics processing in three frequency bands. By offering a true side-chain split structure, MD3 is also capable of demanding mono material compression/limiting on two separate channels, not found in other multi-band dynamics processors.

BrickWall Limiter: If you are concerned about audio quality at the end listener, or have desire to conserve talent, the BrickWall Limiter is the solution. While it cannot prevent destruction of dynamic range from happening at earlier stages in the production process, it does get rid of the signals known to generate distortion in consumer CD players, radio processors and data reduction codecs.

NonLin 2 Stereo Effects Reverb: Featuring an amplitude envelope that is capable of rendering an untriggered gated reverb and a 'twist' parameter, which can radically alter the sound, this plug-in delivers a serious advantage over other gated reverbs. NonLin2 is capable of generating compact vocal ambience, percussive and dramatic drum sounds, reverse reverbs and completely new “twisted” effects.

DVR2 Digital Vintage Reverb: TC Electronic has put much effort into preserving the qualities of the original processor, including sweet modulation, spectral balance, spaciousness and saturation. But not only is DVR2 the most precise EMT250 emulation up to now, it also emulates its predecessor in the way parameters interact for different settings.

UnWrap Stereo to Surround Conversion: Whether you lack time to do a conventional 5.1 mix or a multitrack source simply doesn’t exist – UnWrap facilitates smooth and fast stereo to 5.1 up-conversion.

TapFactory Multi-tap Delay: Let your creativity run wild with this delay/reverb hybrid based on System 6000 Reflector algorithm. Easily design custom out-of-this-world effects that cross the borders between Ambience, Early Reflections, Reverb and Delay.

TC Electronic PowerCore 6000 main features include:

• Pristine algorithms from TC’s high-end System 6000 processor
• 8 Freescale DSPs
• SRAM based memory design supporting high performance reverbs and delays
• For Mac and PC, Audio units and VST
• Plugins include: VSS3 Stereo Source Reverb, MD3 Stereo Mastering, BrickWall Limiter, NonLin 2 Stereo Effects Reverb, DVR2 Digital Vintage Reverb, UnWrap Stereo to Surround Conversion, TapFactory Multi-tap Delay
• PowerCore 6000 also includes the 14 base package plug-ins known from PowerCore X8
• PowerCore 6000 is compatible with all PowerCore 3rd party plug-ins
• Compatibility: VST and AU

TC Electronic PowerCore 6000 System Requirements:

• Mac: G4, G5, or Intel (733mHz or better). Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. 512 MB RAM or more.
• Win: Pentium 4, 1.4 Ghz or better. Windows XP or higher. 512 MB RAM or more.
• 400 MBit FireWire connector (IEEE 1394)