This German company has been making ground breaking products for years! Until the introduction of TripleDat in 1996, US Pro Audio users on the PC had only expensive hardware options for professional use or had to "Make Do" with consumer products for their professional needs. In 1999 they released Pulsar I cards and Scope cards.In 2000 they improved them to Pulsar II and a 14 chip Scope card. Steadily improved over time with new software and options, the SCOPE platform is on its way of becoming a living classic.
It is 2005. Still, there is no other system available that provides so much functionality, so much sound, and so much creativity in a single integrated package.
With v4.0, we have reorganized the SCOPE platform. Luna, Pulsar, and SCOPE have become SCOPE home, SCOPE project und SCOPE professional. A logical step forward: This does not only optimize the composition of the range but the 4.0 software also adds a number of new features and highlights to it
These cards also support G3 and G4 Macs in OS9! While Creamware doesn't recommend using them in systems with CPU upgrades , they do work within limitations. For example, using Pulsar II (stereo analog I/O) you can have the big mixer, miniverb, stereo chorus and stereo delay mixing 6 channels of audio from Logic 6 on a Mac 9500/Umax S900 with G3/400 CPU upgrade. The system is slow but works.
The Scope Pro, Scope Project, Scope Home based DSP Audio Cards are an open DSP platform for synthesis, sampling, effect processing, mixing and routing. Theses cards combine hundreds of audio software components with immensely powerful DSP hardware. Its modular structure makes them probably the most versatile music tool available. You determine the systems functionality by simply combining and connecting the elements you need. These cards allow totally free signal routing between all software components, the drivers and even your external gear.
This type of product would not be possible without the use of multiple DSPs that add significant horsepower to your computer. The cards start with the Scope Home which feature 3 SHARC DSPs. Scope Project features a generous six of the fastest floating-point DSPs available from Analog Devices SHARC. The Scope Pro cards have 14 of these DSPs. This massive DSP power lets you process your audio in realtime ñ with the precision and stability of a fine Swiss watch.
A professional system should be expandable, so that it can adapt to your future needs. All of these cards can be custom-tailored with a range of optional DSP expansion boards, I/O options and more than one hundred additional software plug-ins.
Welcome to your audio future. It's designed to put you a giant leap ahead. To learn more about each product, simply click on it.
Scope Home Scope Project Scope Pro TripleDat XTC Mode
Much more than just an I/O
board, SCOPE home is the perfect solution for entering the world of professional
recording. Equipped with three DSPs, it provides the uncompromising CreamWare
audio quality and performance for recording, mixing, surround sound, and
effects processing.
SCOPE home integrates with all common sequencers (Cubase, Logic, Cakewalk ) thanks to theextensive driver pack providing ultra-low latency, unlimited and flexible routing of all inputs and outputs, and compatibility with the huge plug-in library of the SCOPE platform.
NEW in Version 4.0
Hardware Features:
Highlights:
PC requirements: 400 MHz or better, 128 MB of memory, Microsoft Windows ME or better
Mac requirements: G3 B/W, 400 MHz, 128 MB of memory, MacOS 9.x
With 6 DSPs, SCOPE project presents more resources and more professional
tools to the ambitious producer - for more tracks and powerful mixes with
perfect audio quality. Or select a dazzling array of sounds and sophisticated
synthesis with the Synth & Sampler Pack.
SCOPE project is shipped with either the extensive Synth&Sampler Pack or the Mix&Master Pack . Thus, SCOPE project adds top-class sound and flexibility to any native system - for an extremely reasonable price.
NEW in Version 4.0
Hardware Features:
Highlights:
PC requirements: 400 MHz or better, 128 MB of memory, Microsoft Windows ME or better
Mac requirements: G3 B/W, 400 MHz, 128 MB of memory, MacOS 9.x
The big SCOPE for the multi-producer who demands unlimited
resources and is not willing to compromise; everything you need for audio
recording - synthesizers and samplers plus mixing and mastering tools in
one package. Unlike SCOPE project, SCOPE professional includes both the
Mix&Master Pack and the Synth&Sampler Pack. This turns SCOPE professional
into an unprecedented universal and valuable sound tool.
SCOPE professional is a package providing ultimate DSP power plus a set of software that leaves no wish unfulfilled. Uncompromising and incredibly creative. Be inspired!
NEW in Version 4.0
Hardware Features:
Highlights:
PC requirements: 400 MHz or better, 128 MB of memory, Microsoft Windows ME or better
Mac requirements: G3 B/W, 400 MHz, 128 MB of memory, MacOS 9.x
TripleDat is now longer available as a new product but we do get used ones from time to time .It is available for Scope Cards as TripleDat LE. You can get it as add on software to a current or new Scope system or as Restore or ScopeFX System Email us if you're interested in one. The Orginal TripleDat an ISA card that adds up to 256 virtual tracks, as many as your PC system can play back tracks in real time, all the effects are in real time and available on the mixer window with up to 4 effects at once. You then can make your own CDs that are PQ code ready for the duplicators! The audio card has 18bit stereo audio in and out, sp/diff coxial and optical digital in and out (with optional AES/EBU digital I/O), remote control for most DAT transports and finally MIDI in and out for syncing. It can also be used with Scope cards for additional I/O, efxs and more. It'll work on Pentium 166 or better systems.
Firewalkers is their plug in suite of 8band EQ with selectable filters per band, Stereo Graphic Chorus with 6 taps, Graphoc Stereo Flanger, FFT Analyzer, Full Screen/Floating VUs, Signal Generator and Dynamic Transposing.
OSIRIS is a powerful audio processing package used to restore
degraded or damaged audio material effortlessly, and in real time!
In addition to noise elimination processes, integrated X-citer and SubBass
modules are also included to improve dull or 'bass-challenged' archival
recordings. Or, they can be used to sonically enhance otherwise satisfactory
audio material. Add life and brilliance to a guitar, or give that kick drum
the extra drive and force you have been looking for.
OSIRIS consists of four main modules:
Throughout the development of OSIRIS, special attention has been paid to keeping any unwanted side effects of the sound restoration and enhancement processes to a minimum. Another significant goal was to create a visual rendering of the effects settings, so that the adjustment of the many acoustic parameters becomes intuitive, clear and meaningful. We are happy to say that both these goals have been met.
OSIRIS gives you the results you want in the shortest possible time.
Each DSP on the XTC card adds a quantity of computing power to your computer. These processors are particularly well suited for computing the XTC instruments and effects, and that's precisely what they're used for. This means that regardless of how many high-quality XTC plug-ins you use simultaneously there is no additional load on your host computer - your computer simply has considerably more power than before. Of course, there are many things going on inside your computer that know nothing of the XTC's DSPs. For example, the DSPs do not accelerate ordinary VST or DirectX plug-ins, nor do they enhance your computer's display or reduce your sound card's latency.
Also a DSP card - when it is completely integrated into a native audio sequencer - cannot solve the latency problems of a native system. Delays are system dependent, and are somewhat greater for XTC plug-ins than for standard VST plug-ins because the host software must additionally communicate with the DSP card.
The amount of latency depends on several things: your audio sequencer, the quality of the I/O implementation (XTC I/O daughterboard or another sound card) and the ASIO driver supplied with your sound card.
In general, latency is a little greater than with normal VST instruments and plug-ins as the communication with the DSPs on the card costs some time. And when you use an XTC instrument with an XTC effect following it, the latency increases again by some degree. However, this is only relevant when playing "live". And with today's low-latency sound cards this still permits live playing without too much delay.
This fact applies not only to Pulsar XTC, but also to any comparable product currently available from other manufacturers. However, XTC is the only fully integrated DSP expansion card to offer the option of mounting superior-quality inputs and outputs directly on the card itself (XTCpro, more about this later). When used with one of the XTC I/O daughterboards, Pulsar XTC's latency is approximately 25% less than that of a fast "foreign" sound card.
Perfect latency-free performance of DSP effects and instruments is possible only when a DSP card runs in its own operating system parallel with the host-based sequencer, as with products such as Home, Project and Pro. With these systems, the "virtual devices" (DSP instruments and effects) perform exactly like their external hardware counterparts. The audio sequencer sends MIDI data to the DSP card, where it is processed in realtime (!), and the audio signals are fed to the I/Os with no delay whatsoever.
ScopeXTC, too, will let you play your XTC instruments entirely delay-free. This is particularly advantageous in live situations, or when recording live. For this, a "Direct Mode" is available in XTCpro, or if one of the optional I/O daughterboards for Pulsar XTC is installed. These daughterboards mount directly on the DSP card, and provide from 20 to 28 (depending on the version) superior-quality I/Os. And, naturally, with 24-bit/96kHz support.
The advantages of including an I/O board are obvious. For one, latency is reduced, making true live recording possible; and for another, by adding a superior-quality I/O system to your computer the presence of another card becomes redundant.
By the way: we also offer some very economical I/O daughterboard bundles with the current Scope software - a very easy way to upgrade to the professional Scope system and all its additional possibilities.
In its latest software release, XTC operates with Luna II, PowerSampler, Elektra, Pulsar (I or II) or SCOPE Platform cards on the same computer. You can start and use either system, but not both at the same time. However, no matter which system you choose to use, the total number of DSPs and I/Os in the computer will be available to you. In this way you could, for example, install Home as an inexpensive I/O solution for the XTC. All that's required is for the cards to be connected over the S/TDM bus.
Sequencer users have waited a long time for this. Finally, there is a DSP solution offering total VST integration - and one which includes not merely a few modest software modules, but several dozen of the best Scope plug-ins. XTC opens up a new world of software plug-ins - directly within your VST-compatible sequencer. In precisely the same spot where you're used to finding your native plug-ins. And regardless of which audio card you've outfitted your system with. Work the same way you've always worked. But with significantly more sound production capacity and much wider sonic possibilities.
Just like the successful Pulsar and Pulsar II DSP systems, XTC is built
upon the revolutionary SCOPE platform. This accounts for XTC's ability to
function reliably in your system right from day one, as well as for an abundance
of software plug-ins whose equal is not to be found on any other DSP system.
And when you're ready for still more, XTC offers a wide range of upgrade
options. You can expand your XTC with audio I/Os, add further DSP cards
for more processing power or even upgrade to a full Scope Pro system.
A system like XTC flies or falls on the basis of the software which is available for it. The XTC comes with an enormously large, high-quality library of effects and virtual instruments. All of these plug-ins run on the DSPs and consume not even a single clock cycle of host CPU time. In effect, the computer is "unaware" of this computation activity and is free to dedicate its power fully to the computation needs of native-based audio software.
For you, as user, it makes no difference whether you're using a VST or an XTC plug-in. Naturally, you can combine both types if you wish. The only difference you'll notice is that you suddenly have much more space within which to realize your ideas.
The XTC studio effectsPulsar XTC incorporates the effects plug-ins of the high-end SCOPE system. You thus obtain more than 30 new DSP effects within your recording software environment. The level of computing performance achieved by the XTC hardware permits the use of compromise-free 32-bit effects algorithms, guaranteeing fully professional sound quality. The effects library includes the new MasterVerb, eight separate instances of which can be loaded at one time. In addition to the effects which come with XTC, there are many more available from CreamWare and from third-party developers. Since XTC effects comply with the VST 2.0 specification, they can be effortlessly automated within your recording software. Remote control via freely-assignable MIDI controllers is also possible. One way or another, you've got it all under control.
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XTC includes not only an impressive collection of effects,
but also an assortment of extraordinary virtual instruments. You'll find
powerful analog synthesizers, which until now have been available only with
the SCOPE DSP systems - such as the U KNOW 007, the Miniscope and the Inferno.
The EDS 8i is on hand as well to provide punchy drum sounds. In addition,
there is the new Vectron Player, an instrument with breathtaking sounds
based upon refined vector synthesis.
XTC instruments are fully integrated into the recording software environment,
just like VST instruments - including automation, of course. The only difference
is that they are computed on the DSPs and thus leave your
computer free for hard-disk recording and native plug-ins. In addition,
XTC which has been expanded with one of the I/O boards offers Direct
Play mode, which allows you to play the DSP-based XTC instruments completely
free of delay - just like any real hardware instrument.
Along with the included synthesizers, XTC enables you to use dozens of additional instruments which have been developed for the SCOPE platform. The virtual instrument collection alone makes XTC an uncommonly valuable extension of your studio setup. After all, when have you ever been able to buy so many synthesizers at one time at this price?
The XTC instrument collection includes:
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