everything worked fine so far ... until my mobo (gigabyte) crashed. got it back yesterday plugged in my 2 pulsar 2-cards ...
how is the proper stdm cabeling ... don't remember ...
do I have to use 2 stdm cables to make a proper connection?
for 2 boards use the outmost connectors, leaving one empty in the middle.
That way the bus is properly terminated. It doesn't matter which connector on the board you choose.
OK, but do I have to use 2 cables to connect 2 pulsar II cards or is 1 cable OK?
I am asking because I get strange results when starting nuendo and looking at my ins and outs ...
cheers
tom
one cable is fine, unless you get an 'ran out of STDM connections' error, which is pretty rare - in fact I don't even know it's exact source ...
the 'strange' things in NUendo are probably because you've changed your system and it doesn't find some items back. You'll probably have to setup the IO ports again (I'm no sequencer expert, though) - but it definetely cannot deal with parts of the hardware, as it only sees it through asio glasses
I talked with soniccore-support last friday ...
I was told to use 2 cables to connect 2 pulsar cards ... OK I did so, because nothing worked ...
on friday I did some tests ...thought there might be a hardware problem because pulsar (item hardware) in sfp did not show analog in/out, spdif but pulsar [2] did ...
changed the cards ... same problem
it's strange that I am able to use the analog ins/outs in nuendo with xtc anyway ...
so I tested my system with only 1 card ... same problem ... always the same ... hardware - pulsar (no ins/out, spdif ... the menuitems are greyed out ... but adat io's are not greyed out)
same with my second card ...
so at the moment I think that it is not a hardware problem ...
maybe my registry went corrupt concerning the pulsar hardware ...
I am able to use the settings-dialog from within nuendo ... but after changing ins/out and refreshing and reloading the in/out s I've added don't showup in my nuendo IN/OUT list from where I can choose the availabe ins/outs ...
so tomorrow I am deinstalling all pulsar hard-/software ....
and installing again ...
perhapsthat helps to get these issues solved ....
btw.: yes, I have clean the contacts/slots of the cards
cheers
tom
dtb wrote:...it's strange that I am able to use the analog ins/outs in nuendo with xtc anyway ...
well, this reminds me... did you run the IOEnabler application (again), that's installed together with the Scope software ?
I haven't much clues about it, as I never used XTC and ignored any questions regarding it during (previous) installs, but recently I confirmed (as a precaution) to setup everything 'correctly' when the Win2K install turned out a bit tricky.
According to my memory the default option was 'my card has no IOs'.
Maybe the software just messed some routing, though these IOs mentioned are probably related to XTC mode only, but one never knows...
thanx for your reply. yes, I checked the i/o enabler - settings are OK and yes, ... standard is "my card has no i/o's" ...
now I am looking forward to what'is coming tomorrow (I am currently not at my studio location and at the moemnt I use my rme-stuff (fireface 800, octamic ...)
cheers
tom
OK - 2 x Pulsar II-cards connected via stdm ... all INS/OUTS availabe except:
Pulsar[2] ADAT B INS
Pulsar[2] ADAT B OUTS
I have always used xtc so I am not that familiar with sfp-routing ... but what I found out is that ASIO2 DEST - software I/O's-module in the routing window has only 32 inputs (and ASIO2 SOURCE software-module 32 out's).
I wonder how to use ALL ins/out of 2 pulsar cards connected via stdm. these 2 cards provide the following i/o's:
Pulsar [1]:
analog in L/R = 2
spdif in L/R = 2
ADAT A IN= 8
ADAT B IN= 8
Pulsar [2]:
analog in L/R = 2
spdif in L/R = 2
ADAT A IN= 8
ADAT B IN= 8
==> 40 INS
same with the outs ...
maybe that's the reason why it also doesn't work with xtc ...
should I deactivate spdif to free up another 4 ADAT INS/OUTS???
can someone enlighten me? astroman?
cheers
tom
well, as mentioned I don't know much about xtc mode...
you possibly need to go into sfp mode, load your xtc project, add the Adat IO from the 'Hardware items menu' and save the project.
Then I would expect it to show the new IO in the sequencer in xtc-mode.
Afaik it cannot do the trick without leaving xtc, going into scope and then back into xtc again.
I was trying to adress 40 IOs within the sfp-routing window using the ASIO2 DEST and ASIO2 SOURCE - software modules ... but I can't make it happen because these ASIO2 software-modules offer only 32 INS/OUTS. I tried to increase the number of inputs for the above mentioned ASIO2 DEST software module (on the left side panel where INs and OUTs are shown ...) but in the routing window nothing happened (the ASIO2 DEST module did not get antoher 8 IOs)
just to make things a little bit clearer ...
it might be helpful to know if it is possible to adress more than 32 io's to an ASIO2 Destination (just to have these i/o's shown up in my sequencer software)
cheers
tom
btw.: tomorow I will attach a snapshot of my routing window to this thread (one picture says more than 1000 words ... - my english is not that good ...
thanx - that's what I wanted to know ... strange that it doesn't work when I use xtc mode ... I'll check it out tomorrow
@astroman: thanx for trying to help me!!!
cheers
tom
