2. System Requirements

SSL Console Bundle for MX4

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To run the SSL Console Bundle Plug-Ins you need a host PC equipped with an SSL MX4 PCIe Card or SSL Mixpander/5 (or Soundscape Mixpander/9) and the latest Version of the SSL Mixer V6.x or SSL Soundscape V6.x Software.

In order to get the most out of the SSL Console Bundle plug-ins, your system needs the following minimum specification:

•Working SSL Mixer V6 or SSL Soundscape V6 Installation

•Windows XP or Vista 32-bit (NT, 95/98, ME, 2K are NOT supported)

•32-Bit Graphics Mode and Card with DirectX8 or higher

•Pentium, Core2, i7 or equivalent based System with at least 2.2GHz (or equivalent overall CPU power in Multicore Systems)

•512MB or more of Ram (2GB min recommended)

DSP Resources:

Double Precision 48-Bit DSP Memory:

Since the whole processing chain inside the EQ-Filters and major processing blocks of the Console Dynamics and Bus Compressor plug- ins are fully 48-bit double precision, only 48-bit DSP memory can be used to run each instance of the plug-in without additional latency inside the SSL V6 DSP architecture.

Only a limited amount of the memory inside the mixpander 5/9 DSP platforms is available for direct 48-bit operations.

The MX4 PCIe Cards however provides a huge amount of 48-bit memory needed to run multiple instances of the plug-ins.

Especially with Mixpander based Systems you therefore may encounter situations where you are not able to load more SSL Console Bundle plug-ins because there is no more 48-bit memory available (indicated by the [M] parameter in the Mixers caption bar).

However, you may well have enough DSP resources to be able to load other standard or optional plug-ins which utilise 24-bit memory only.

The tables below show the max. number of simultaneous mono and stereo instances of one Plug-In at 44.1 kHz, inserted on an individual Mono to Mono or Stereo to Stereo Channel Strip with Output Fader.

Note: For higher sample rates (48kHz, 88.2kHz and 96kHz) more Processing-Cycles are required for calculation, meaning less instances will be available.

MX4 PCIe
Plug-InMonoStereo

 

 

 

SSL Console EQ-F

92

48

 

 

 

SSL Console Dyn

88

48

 

 

 

SSL Bus Comp

-

164

 

 

 

Mixpander 9

 

 

Plug-In

Mono

Stereo

 

 

 

SSL Console EQ-F

40

32

 

 

 

SSL Console Dyn

56

32

 

 

 

SSL Bus Comp

-

100

 

 

 

Mixpander 5

 

 

Plug-In

Mono

Stereo

 

 

 

SSL Console EQ-F

20

16

 

 

 

SSL Console Dyn

28

16

 

 

 

SSL Bus Comp

-

50