Overview; Windows Boot Choice; Memory - Merging Pyramix User Manual

Overview

MassCore™ is an extremely powerful Pyramix option. A truly deterministic real-time engine that does not rely on
the Windows operating system. This avoids the inherent restrictions and latencies introduced by the operating
system and allows the channel/track-count to be increased to an unprecedented level. MassCore is scalable from
16 to 384 Live I/O (768 simultaneous) with a massive bus structure. (For now this is limited in code to a total of 512
at 1FS (256@2FS, 128@4FS, 64@8FS).
MassCore enables a number of new features:
• Larger Mixer configurations
• Extra 2.66ms and Ultra 1.33ms latency options
• Full Delay Compensation (VS3 and VST)
• VST inserts on Mix Buses, Aux Send and SubGroup Buses
• VST Multi-channel support
• External Inserts (physical effects)
• External Monitor Inputs and Talkback
• Virtual ASIO support

Windows Boot Choice

You will see a new screen after the P.O.S.T(Power On Self Test) screen before Windows starts to boot. This screen
offers the choice between:
Windows 7
and
Windows 7 MassCore
Please choose Merging Technologies MassCore. Boot will then proceed as normal.
If you do not make a choice then the machine will boot into Masscore mode after 30 seconds automatically.
Similar choices will be presented if you are running Windows Vista or XP Professional.
Please ignore all other options on this screen unless asked to use them by Merging Technologies technical sup-
port staff.

Memory

MassCore memory allocation is 128MB for all Operating Systems.
The total amount of memory available in a MassCore machine affects the number of VST channels which will be
available.
With 2GB or more of system memory, 384 VST channels are available.
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