TC POWERCOREÆs signal processing power transforms all VST-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!

Extended information

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 ôcycleö, is capable of loading 2 data items, fetching the next processor instruction and performing a combined multiplication and addition (multiply-add) û all at the same time!

A current G4 on the other hand, requires at least 4 û 7 cycles to perform this operation in a best-case scenario û if the data is not in the computerÆs 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.

Technical specifications

System requirements:

ò G3 or G4 PowerMac with PCI slots
ò 128 MB RAM
ò MacOS 9
ò VST-compatible recording software
ò ASIO compatible sound system