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garyb wrote:it's possible, but most motherboards won't support it.
believe me, 3 15dsp cards is more than enough for 99.999% of uses.

It would be interesting to try. Right now I've got 2 x RME HDSP 9652's and an RME Multiface PCI (in a 7 slot Magma) and 4 x UAD-1 cards (in a 13 slot Magma),and two NVidia GEForce 5500 dualheads (AGP & PCI) happening with an ASUS A8V8X mobo and an AMD 64 4800 x 2 CPU with 4G RAM (though the apps are only able to access a little more than 3G). I can play back 50 tracks while using 95% of the available resources of the UAD-1 cards. There are some compromises to this though for the way I like to work and the bandwidth is so maxed out (especiall by adding that PCI video card) that there is a point of diminishing returns as far a stability goes. I can imagine that 3 x of the 15 DSP Creamware cards would likely be all you would need, and then some.

Thanks again for your feedback on this. I'll see if I can locate some extra cables tomorrow.

you won't like what a pci video card does to your pci bandwidth. you'll never be able to use all the resources of 3 cards with the extra video card running.

garyb wrote:you won't like what a pci video card does to your pci bandwidth. you'll never be able to use all the resources of 3 cards with the extra video card running.

I'm going to lose this video card. I won't be needing it anymore and early next year, I'll be building an Intel based machine most likely. From what I can tell right now, I may have the *worst* setup on earth for a Creamware system, but it will be basically used as a standalone FX processor for the near future. I'm going to try to kludge along with what I've got here if possible, until the Intel quad cores are loosed upon the world.

Hi DJ,

the Sync plate has its own cable and it connects to 1 of the Scopes.
the second Scope will need an STDM cable to connect to the first Scope.

you are getting 2 STDM cables with the sync plate so connect both STDM between the 2 Scopes and the Sync is hooked to 1 of them.

Understood.......thank you Ali.

Hey DJ,
I made my own stdm cables very cheap and easy , I am sure that four cards can coexist on a pc if you mainly will use them as routing and not wanna use all dsps of all cards cause you will certainly have pci overflow messages.
I have thought of putting a fourth card just to add another 16 adat channels and spdif and not use it for dsp processing at all.
Maybe I try one...
Cheers,
Dimitrios

Hi Dimitrios,

Thanks for the reply. Ali is holding my hand now making sure I don't screw up. Between you and him and others here I'm sure I will survive this. It is a strange feeling learning a new system. I have been reading the manuals during the evenings. I was having some panic attacks last night because for some reason I was thinking that the native inserts in Paris were *after the* EDS/external inserts and this would have totally screwed what I need to do here with Scope as far as routing. Lky I found the routing schematic and the native inserts are *before* the external inserts so I will be able to process certain native inserts (like Drumagog) with the Sope EQ and compressor in real time. this is a good thing......believe me.

BTW-Check your e-mail. I sent you a package yesterday USPS airmail.

Cheers

ya, keep your uad plugs, some at least, i have to say, that after the neve from uad (1073, 81), i checked out das's and adjusted the knobs to the same locations and i got similiar to better results from das's. i think its because das stays on the cw platform, where uad goes thru your daw, no matter tho, both are good, and many have both, if i had your uad cards, i would at least keep two of the four to integrate with scope, .....scope has vintage eq from stw, and there mastercomp (soft is really good), but don't overlook das's vintage eq's, i've tried them and u can hear the difference between them, so use your own ears and enginneering sense, ...

so use your own ears and enginneering sense, ...

hi Here are some words we miss here on such "technical" forums !!!

cheers,
olive
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