TC Electronic Powercore Compact

Full Description

With 12 powerful plug-ins right out of the box, the PowerCore Compact gives you all the tools you need for productions on the road and in the studio. Additional plug-ins can be added at any time from our ever-growing bulk of optional plug-ins. Great effort have been put into the design and the PowerCore Compact is the preferred choice when portability and instant access to powerful tools is an issue.

Compact Tools

Run all the renowned PowerCore plugs on the PowerCore Compact, without straining your hosts CPU. Spanning from classic and mega reverbs, delays, chorus, EQs, Compression over guitars amp simulation to vocal processing and old school synthesizing, you have a complete production setup. With the renowned Master X3 and the Filtroid plug-ins, and the innovative Character plug-in from Noveltech, you have some of the best processing found anywhere and all of it is included right out of the box!

Compact Power

With two 150 MHz Motorola DSPs and one 266 MHz PowerPC you have enough power for most production tasks where mobility is paramount. Integrating seamlessly with most VST and Audio Unit host applications, the PowerCore Compact adds subtle power for demanding processing, taking the load of your laptop or tabletop PC or MAC.

Unlimited flexibility

PowerCore Compact delivers the ultimate grade of flexibility. It integrates smoothly with most VST or Audio Units applications securing that all processing is possible and in correlation with your favorite music and film editing application. Hook up to 4 PowerCore Compact`s into the same system via the FireWire connectors, combine it with the PowerCore FireWire for even more power, or hook it up to a system already running with PowerCore Unplugged installed. For maximum flexibility we designed the PowerCore Compact to be highly portable. All you need to get your production environment on the move is a PowerCore Compact, a laptop and a plane ticket!

System Requirements

Mac:

Desktop, iBook or PowerBook

G4 or G5, 733mHz or better

MacOS 10.3.6 or higher

512 mb Ram or more

FireWire and Compact:

400 MBit FireWire connector (IEEE 1394)

PCI mkII and Unplugged:

A free PCI/PCI-X slot

Express

A free PCI Express slot

VST, Audio Units or RTAS*) compatible application such as Logic, Nuendo, Live or Digital Performer

PC:

Desktop or laptop

Pentium 4, 1.4 Ghz or better

Windows XP or higher

512 mb Ram or more

FireWire and Compact:

400 MBit FireWire connector (IEEE 1394)

PCI mkII and Unplugged:

A free PCI/PCI-X slot

Express

A free PCI Express slot

VST, Audio Units or RTAS*) compatible application such as Nuendo, Cubase SX, Sonar or Live

*) RTAS (ProTools) is supported via the VST to RTAS adapter from FXpansion (optional).