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Hello my name is Keith Brinson and I am new to this forum. I am doing a particaular kind of surround called "B+ format" that requires 22 or more ins and outs. I will be using 2 of Creamware's Ultra A16's and I am wondering about the Scope DSP cards. Will two "Scope home" cards be able to handle 48 ins or 48 outs at the same time? Can a Pc with a certain other sound card do this? Are DSP cards better than a high quality computer cpu in terms of speed and expandability? In other words: in terms of large numbers of ins and outs what is better creamware(DSP) or a top of the line sound card in an excellent Pc?

If anyone responds i thank them in advance!!
Please E-mail me: keithbrinson@hotmail.com

This really belongs in General Discussion, but as you're new here we'll excuse it and ask John to please move (John?).

Creamware Scope cards are just as capable of passing high numbers of audio tracks as solutions like RME (although they won't always be fitted with exactly the same I/O options) but the 'dsps' on Creamware cards allow you to do a lot of things that other solutions only handle natively (this goes for Powercore & UAD as well). Scope cards are more akin to having an expandable digital mixer, effects and synthesis machine right in your PCI slots, one that works directly with your host sequencer through ASIO, GSif & Wav/mme.

Now you don't mention what you intend to DO with this 'large number of i/o'? Record straight to disk as individual tracks? Mix on the fly?