The Scope plugin system is based around a PCI format processor card with various analog and digital input and output daughter boards available, MIDI connections and software which is compatible with Macintosh and PC computers.

 

The Scope card becomes the main audio system for the computer allowing all the normal audio functions including playback of audio CDs and DVD films. The Scope card will also operate happily with cards from other manufacturers such as the Pro Tools systems from Digidesign installed in the same computer.

The included Scope software includes controls the card and in and out audio routing and includes a huge library of fully MIDI controllable mixers and effects plugin types including compressors, EQs, reverbs, delays, flangers, overdrives and gates along with synthesisers, Akai format samplers and many effects unavailable in normal outboard processors.

All effects plugin processing and synthesis is carried out by the card itself in real-time with no delay just like hardware processing. The operating system of the computer hosts the Scope software and the hard disk controller on the motherboard of the computer handles the audio to disk processing required by the sequencing or recording software being used on the host computer. Typical programs are Steinberg's Cubase, Emagic's Logic Audio series and Sonar by Twelve Tones.

The real-time nature of Scope means that you can get rid of all your outboard hardware effects and mixers if you like and connect everything to your Scope card itself with the use of Creamware or third party analog to digital converters. Almost unlimited numbers of sounds can be routed through Scope's powerful software to several different programs at ounce and recorded in 24bit 96kHz resolution onto the computer's hard disk.

Scope professional also features the VDAT plugin. A virtual ADAT multitrack recording plugin allowing hard disk recording directly inside Scope without any other software being required. Conventional digital ADAT and multitrack analog tape machines can be easily integrated with Scope allowing transfer of tapes to and from Scope for editing or simply for processing and mixdown just like a fully-featured console.

Record your music on your old 2" tape machine and transfer it at 24bit/96kHz for editing and mix it out from Scope using it's gates and effects to your 1/2" stereo machine and into Wavelab on the same computer at the same time for digital and analog master mixes. All is possible with Scope.

The DSPs (digital signal processors) used by the Scope card are high speed S.H.A.R.C processors made by Analog Devices and are among the fastest currently available. These are the same DSPs used in many other high-end audio systems such as Sony's Oxford Digital mixing console and the new Fairlight recording systems and operate with 32bit floating point precision.

The Scope systems as of April 2004 now come in three main formats:

Home (3 DSPs), project (6 DSPs) and professional (15 DSPs) look and operate the same way only with different included synthesisers and effects plug-in packages.

Additional effects and plug-ins are available from SonicCore's website http://www.soniccore.com and many other third party companies busying themselves with development for the platform.

Scope development SDK kit.

With the Scope SDK (software development kit) you can freely design and build your own plug-ins and software to utilize the power of the Scope card.

Almost anything you can imagine in the world of audio is possible with this software.

Scope is very easy to get started with but allows massive detail when required. The totally flexible adjustment of control ranges, user interaction, level detection and sound manipulation guarantees a limitless amount of design possibilities.

The Scope SDK includes a massive library of pre-made 'atoms' which are connected together to create circuits though which sound can be routed and treated.

The Scope 'atoms' range from basic input amplifiers to parametric EQs and mathematical functions like adders, subtractions, multipliers, dividers, log-linear converters, and, or, x-or atoms, switches, diodes, inverters and the capability to import and create new c++ DSP code/algorithms allowing exact simulation of classic digital and analog electronic circuit designs.

24 and 32bit TGA and BMP high-resolution images and graphic animations can be imported, modified and then linked to circuit functions to directly influence the sound in real-time. Scope's graphic editing is quite advanced and allows alpha transparencies, colour selection, shading, resizing, gradient adjustment, text and textures.

Because the Scope software works in real-time, all designs can have audio flowing through them while you are working allowing adjustments to be made right up to the last moment before a release. Expanding the design features and functions is as easy as loading up the project and instantly making the changes and saving a new version.

The most powerful aspect of Scope is that finally you don't need to be a software programming nerd to be able to convert ideas into real working plug-ins!

No DSP coding or programming knowledge is required to make something with Scope although ideas and a basic understanding of electrical circuit functions and audio processing can help enormously.

Check-out all the pictures and system specifications here.

http://www.soniccore.com

Info on controlling De-Vice' + Scope plug-ins and synths via. MIDI...

http://www.deviceplug-ins.com/knobs.htm