Some Questions about the Virus PowerCore? Help!

[marc]

Originally Posted by ten

4) some retards say they can hear a difference but ive a/bed and you cannot and if they can its REALLY minimal, you wouldnt be able to tell in a mix. Some say the a/d makes a big difference, I think not.....probably the same people that say the hardware b has magic the c version does not lol

5) depends on sequencer, all dsp card plugins (uad/powercore) etc add latency. if your host seq has global pdc then you dont have to worry, if it does you can use a latency controller plug that comes with the poco to counter it.

ten

let me just add my 0.2%:

4) you don't need to be a retard to hear differences in between D/A converters. but you're right in assuming that it doesn't really matter in the mix (where you change the sound in a much more drastic fashion using EQ and compression). these days it's hard to find bad sounding D/A converters so i wouldn't worry to much

5) the latency introduced by the powercore is small in comparision to the latency of some instrument calculated on the host. in fact, the virus powercore is pretty much as snappy as the hardware version. on top of that, there is latency compensation - so once you've recorded a track the timing is perfect anyway. the thumb rule is: the lower the buffer size, the smaller the latency and the higher the load on the host CPU. i can play my virus powercore live with my powerbook as long as i use small buffers (128 or lower) with without feeling the delay to an extend where it feels unconfortable

- marc