The Pulsar concept
Pulsar differs from the simple sound
cards or audio cards you may be accus-tomed
to. While these typically merely
offer inputs and outputs or a simple MIDI
synthesizer, the Pulsar hardware features
6 DSPs (Digital Signal Processors) which
bring an enormous amount of process-ing
power to your system. These DSPs
are not function-specific integrated
circuits which serve merely to pack the
heart of a synthesizer, sampler or digital
mixer onto a computer card, but are gen-eral-
purpose, software-programmable
floating-point processors that can flexibly
perform any kind of audio processing.
Thus, Pulsar抯 functionality is not hard-wired
into a fixed-architecture circuit, but
is more or less completely defined by the
Pulsar software, which 揻eedsthe DSPs
with instructions which enable them to
perform any desired function.
For you, the user, this adds up to a bunch
of advantages:
Pulsar is more versatile and flexible
than any other system. You can con-figure
Pulsar as modular synthesis
platform, as a full-function digital mixer
including effects, as an I/O system for
your HDR system, as a sample player,
or all of these at the same time sim-ply
load the modules you need, as
long as DSP computing capacity
permits.
- Pulsar is completely modular. All Pul-sar
devices synthesizers, mixers,
effects, sample players, even audio
drivers and hardware IOs can be
loaded from the list of available mod-ules.
This means you can always
adapt Pulsar 100% to fit whatever
your needs happen to be at the mo-ment.
And modular in turn means eco-nomical,
since only those modules
which are actually loaded consume
DSP power.
- Software bugs can easiliy be cor-rected
via software updates. Better
still completely new functionality can
be added just as easily at any time.
Pulsar is a continually-developing sys-tem,
and the huge range of possibili-ties
which it provides continually ex-pands
right along with it.
Third-party manufacturers can offer
their products as Pulsar software
modules. And with our SCOPE sys-tem,
even users who have no knowl-edge
of programming can create cus-tom
devices and modules for Pulsar.
Check out all of the great Pulsar mod-ules
that are available in the Internet
for free (see the links section of our
Web site) you抣l be quite pleasantly
surprised!
- With Pulsar, 搑ealtimereally means
realtime. As the DSPs handle all of
the work of audio processing without
help from the host CPU, we抮e able to
avoid the typical latency that goes
along with dependency upon the op-erating
system of the computer. Con-sequently,
Pulsar synths respond just
as fast as external synthesizers, and
all setting changes for example,
adjustments to the level of a channel
in the Pulsar mixer become effec-tive
immediately, and not 揳 short time
lateras with host-CPU based
systems.
- Pulsar need never become boring.
You抣l always be able to come up with
new ways to use it, which in turn will
provide new inspiration for your work.
This is a system without limits!