TC Electronics POWERCORE        


		TC POWERCORE's signal processing power transforms all VST/MAS-compatible
		recording environments into professional high performance audio
		workstations, freeing up precious CPU performance resources.
		
		TC POWERCORE employs no less than 5 discrete processors: A PowerPC and 4
		Motorola 56K DSPs for an unparalleled performance and flexibility
		providing up to 24/96 audio and double-precision processing!
		
		
		2800 MHZ WORTH OF DSP POWER!
		
		TC POWERCORE provides more DSP Power than any computer that is currently
		available. One card supplies the user with 400 DSP MIPS (Million
		Instructions Per Second) of sheer power. One DSP Instruction, or
		"cycle", is capable of loading 2 data items, fetching the next processor
		instruction and performing a combined multiplication and addition
		(multiply-add) - all at the same time!
		
		A current G4 on the other hand, requires at least 4 - 7 cycles to
		perform this operation in a best-case scenario - if the data is not in
		the computer's cache, which is to be expected, the factor is up to 100
		times worse.
		
		Also, the current CPUs theoretical power is reduced by the relatively
		slow memory used.
		
		
		VST/ MAS MAXIMIZE YOUR DSP POWER
		
		With TC POWERCORE you don't give up any of your VST features - you add
		the reliability and power of a DSP-based system to your native
		environment. Of course, you can use VST and TC POWERCORE Plug-Ins at the
		same time - even in the same signal path.
		
		The integration is complete, it doesn't make any difference if you are
		inserting a TC POWERCORE or VST Plug-In - they are even stored in the
		same folder.
		
		VST/ MAS POWERCORE PLUG-IN SPEC
		
		TC Works' new VST Powercore Plug-In spec utilizes Steinberg's open VST
		Plug-In format as a front-end but streams the audio to the TC POWERCORE
		card for processing.Thanks to using VST as a starting point and
		extending the format from there, all Plug-Ins written for the TC
		POWERCORE card will instantly run in any VST-compatible audio
		application such as Cubase, Logic, Nuendo or SPARK.