Pulsar 1 and Pulsar 2 in same PC?

stelibo · Post by **stelibo** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 6:18 am

I am planning to connect the Pulsar 1
with my Pulsar 2 on the same machine via STDM? I have hear experience from another member of PLANETZ that after connect Pilsar I, Pulsar II and Pulsar XT together in same PC, he could not manage it. If he left in the machine the Pulsar 2 with the XTC,
everything was fine. If he left the Pulsar 1 alone, again everything fine.
When all the 3 together, he had all the time PCI overflows and other error
messages. So, finally he gave up trying, and left the 2 newer cards in his DAW
and the Pulsar 1 in his old PC.

In the PlanetZ some people told him that that the newer cards are not 100% compatible with the older cards when you
connect 3 together. He dont know if this is true when I will try to connect only 2
cards. Pulsar 1 and Pulsar 2 only.

Anybody is using Pulsar 1 and Pulsar 2 in the same mashine without any problems? A new card with an old card in the same machine, in order to be sure.

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ghandi · Post by **ghandi** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 7:37 am

I have a configuration with two pulsar I and a pulsar II card in one pc. No problems, everything works fine!

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 11:16 am

I have just put Pulsar2 with 2 Pulsar 1's but I can't get any in or outs to work.Just get a clicking sound.
Do I need to reload SFP?
Thx!

stelibo · Post by **stelibo** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 4:23 pm

On 2003-04-12 08:37, ghandi wrote:

I have a configuration with two pulsar I and a pulsar II card in one pc. No problems, everything works fine!

Can you use I/O from both cards simultaneously?

I am interersted for ADAT I/O and S/PDIF from Pulsar 1 because my Pulsar 2 is with AES/EBU.

Flash_R · Post by **Flash_R** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 3:44 am

I have Pulsar1+Pulsar2, and PowerSampler in one PC. To Pulsar1 and 2 are connected two A16. To PS connected Luna box. All works superb.

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Sun Apr 13, 2003 1:15 pm

Got my Pulsar 2 working with Pulsar1's.
Whiah is the pin1 on card?Is it the nearest pin to back of computer or front?Keep getting STDM not attatched messages.
Thx!

Labman · Post by **Labman** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 6:20 am

I have Pulsar2, Powerpulsar and PowerSampler together in 1 PC and get so many problems with "STDM not attached" "communication error with board1" and several other messages but they are intermitant. Sometimes when I boot up it works fine, other times it's a pain.

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 8:37 am

On 2003-04-17 07:20, Labman wrote:
I have Pulsar2, Powerpulsar and PowerSampler together in 1 PC and get so many problems with "STDM not attached" "communication error with board1" and several other messages but they are intermitant. Sometimes when I boot up it works fine, other times it's a pain.

Yes this is the problem I had.
Did you do a fresh install?
Took the boards out and put them in one by one and everything seems ok so far.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 10:58 am

You can change quite some things to help STDM: which card is used for ASIO, where you connect patchbays, on which card u load the mixer, in which order the cards are in the pci slots... All this influences how much traffic the STDM will have to handle.

I used to have these problems when I had one Pulsar2 and 2 Pulsar1: one STDM wasn't enough. By changing where the ADAT sampler and patchbay was connected at that time, and setting up mixers accordingly, I solved some of these problems.

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Sat May 03, 2003 11:19 am

Hey Atomic
How do you load ASIO on one card and say the mixer on the other.
Thx!

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sat May 03, 2003 11:29 am

ASIO is determined by the master card. The one showing first in DSP meter.

Mixers are loaded to the card they're [optionally] locked to in SFP. This is possible on Micromixer, Dynamixer and STM2448.