Creamware card on a beige G3 mac?

amundsen · Post by **amundsen** » Mon Mar 11, 2002 1:58 am

I plan to install a PowerSampler card on a beige G3/333 MHz Macintosh.

I would like to know if this kind of configuration will offer a good reliability and enough voices, especially if I record the sound in Logic Audio.

I'm also interested to know about successful G3 configurations with Luna (I/II) or Pulsar cards.

Thank you for helping.

Best,

Amundsen

borg · Post by **borg** » Mon Mar 11, 2002 7:19 am

be carefull! i remember reading something about B/W G3 being minimum specifications, but i can't remember wether it was for pulsar or digi001. it was in a computermusic soundcard special about two years ago.
i have B/W G3 450Mhz with pulsarII and it works fine.
inform yourself properly before buying.

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amundsen · Post by **amundsen** » Mon Mar 11, 2002 7:31 am

I think it was for the Digi001. One of my friends tried to installit into a beige G3 but nver managed it to work. So he had to change for a G4.

Have you used any of the STS samplers on this card? How did it work?

Best,

Amundsen

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Mon Mar 11, 2002 7:50 am

Hi, I tried my Luna card on my previous comoputer (G3/266) and it worked quite fine (no visible differences between my current comp G4/400). The only disadvantage of the beige G3 for CW cards use is lack of AGP (video may conflict with Luna data stream). Luna/Pulsar GUI is very demandin: my 16MB ATI rage fury card works very slow especially when dragging windows and it was a nightmare on the G3. I'm not sure but AirPollo tried his Pulsar on G4/733 or so with rather similar effects (slow graphic, Geforce card)

If you must use the G3/333, install Luna soft on 8.6 OS - it's the most stabile system available for you/luna (forget 9.x, they are not so stabile but I chave no choice on my G4). OMS 2.3.7 is a must and get rid of Multiproccessing folder found in Extensions folder of System Folder (remove it manualy because the Extensions Manager don't see it)

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Mon Mar 11, 2002 11:33 am

Did'nt the 333 mHz model come with a SCSI UW2 card?
That is on the PCI bus as well, so you should probably loose that card.
Creamware cards needs lot's of PCI bandwitdh.