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Is there any Major difference if i take I/O(Z-link) dautgherboard from my pulsar II, and mount it on Scope board? I also got a16U, but only one z-link cable(need two for all 16 channels). But when i looked i saw it was just like a normal firewire cable. Do i have to buy it from creamware(this means i have to wait my dealer from another country sends it to me) or can i just buy one firewire cable?
Finnaly- do i have to uninstall SFP before installing Synth&sampler pack(i bought it before anouncment of SCOPE 4.0
or can i just overinstall the whole thing.
Thank you for your answers

Hi,

A standard Firewire cable can be used for Z-Link.

You can, like I did, put the IO daughterboard of Pulsar2 on the Scope SRB. Then just add the card, connect 2 STDM cables and install its drivers - that's all it takes to install the new card.

Does the S&S pack come as an .oxe (or a bunch of .oxe's)? Close SFP. Then there's 2 was to install the oxe: Double-click it to execute the installation file, or copy it to your SFPAppOxe folder and restart SFP.
If there's no .oxe, just copy the files to their respective folders in SFP ...

Have fun with your new card and plugins!!

at0m.

Hi at0mic,
thx for your answer!
What i would like to know- is there any particulary STRONG reason why to move I/O board. As far as i understand SFP sees all boards as one anyway. Is there a difference if data is transfered over STDM? I'd rather not move hardware if there is no strong advantage to it.
And another thing- in manual it is said board should be connected to floppy power supply cable- in case you connect luna 2496 to Z-link. I've got a16U with it's own power supply. So should i disconnect this cable again. Does it make a difference if i have it connected or not if i have two boards(pulsar II/scope SRB)?

Thx again

There is no strong reason to move I/O board. My reason to move it was to make STDM more efficient: most devices, in particular the large mixers, are on the Scope board. So I didn't see any reason why I should give up, on 10 I/O or 20 STDM busses with inherent sample latencies and phase problems if I could just move the IO board to the board where the signal comes from in the first place.

I don't know about the power supply cable, but I think it might relief power from the PCI bus a tiny bit. I use a Luna2496 which get its power from the Z-Link cable. I don't know for you, but if there's a spare floppy power supply cable hanging in the case, why not connect it? It doesn't bite

Finnaly- do i have to uninstall SFP before installing Synth&sampler pack(i bought it before anouncment of SCOPE 4.0

i'm running sfp 3.1c...what is 4.0!!!
at0m are this 2 dsp will show individualy in the dsp bar? can you tell us more how this srb card work with pulsar2+.
thanks

It's quite simple. Insert the card into your computer and connect the STDM cables. Put the card preferably on the same IRQ as the other one, or at least make sure it doesn't share IRQ with a non-CW device.

Boot the machine, install the drivers. Put the .oxe files of eventual devices that come with the card in the oxe folder in the SFP folder. Run SFP, restart it if you added any .oxe's, and you can start using the newly added dsp's and/or I/O as if it were on one card. [edit] The DSP bar shows dsp usage for all dsp's too of course.

Enjoy.

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