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Intel® Centrino® 2 Processor Technology

Do you know those moments when inspiration calls, unexpected, in the backseat of a cab, at the boarding gate or at a session waiting for your turn? Are you prepared? Can you wax the strings, can you freeze the rhythm? It’s those split seconds of inspiration that make all the difference, those rare and fragile moments that turn ideas into treasures. It’s what any creative musician dreams of: Grooves and sounds are fresh and kickin’, a song arises. You have to act. Time counts and technology is just meant to follow.

A composer, a DJ, a performer – whoever you are, whatever you do - your solution is a powerful yet practical mobile music studio. A high-performance, strong battery powered notebook complemented by state of the art software and excellent audio all based upon Intel® Centrino® 2 Processor Technology. And so it is. By delivering significantly more performance than previous-generation notebooks, it gives you just what you need to transform your imagination into significant music.

You’ll be amazed to watch all your performance hungry plug-ins just begging to join the rave. What a difference! Remember how your system used to drop out in the middle of a high-strung mixing session? This last track-bounce that last tiny touch of compression that pushed it over the edge and – wham – you were in the ditch again? You may not notice right away, but hey – those moments are gone!

Now there’s a new benchmark for mobile music power: the Intel® Core™2 Duo mobile processor, capable of answering all your needs and then some. Add to this up to 4 MB L2 shared cache and a power-optimized 667 MHz front side bus, and your music data will boogie! To further spark your creativity - anytime, anyplace, as long as you wish - several features have been implemented into Intel’s mobile technology. For the sake of saving power and extending battery life, not only is CPU clock speed (read: energy consumption) dynamically adapted to the current level of activity, but “Advanced Power Gating” now allows for specific processor “portions” to be turned on only and exactly when needed! Adding to this, excellent wireless connectivity is provided by the Intel® Next Gen Wireless-N network. And because we know what matters, superior audio fidelity is a result of Intel® High Definition Audio found in Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology-based laptops.

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Benefits:

• Spark your creativity - anytime, anywhere
• Dynamically adapted to the current level of activity
• Excellent wireless connectivity
• Superior audio fidelity

Intel® Xeon® Processor

Are plenty of tracks not enough for your job? You need to apply the highest quality effects without wasting your time freezing tracks? Your time is too precious to spend it working around your current PC’s limitations? Well, then you might consider using the latest high-end workstations like Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor-based platforms.

The latest versions are an incredible combination of sheer performance boosts: Intel Xeon processor-based systems feature dedicated, dual independent front-side buses with up to 1,333 GHz speed and up to 8 CPU cores enabling an unprecedented number of tracks, effects and virtual instruments within a project. A major advantage is access to up to 64 GB of FB-DIMM memory, the no-compromise technology providing maximum memory capacity at 21 GB/sec peak memory bandwidth. Furthermore, the 8 MB shared L2 cache leads to even lower latencies and improved performance compared to a desktop solution. With all these technologies combined, these workstations are the ultimate studio machines - expanding your possibilities and flexibility beyond anything you’ve seen before.

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Benefits:

• Up to 1,333 GHz front-side bus speed
• Lower latencies and improved performance
• The ultimate studio machines

Intel® Core™2 Duo And Intel® Core™2 Quad Processors

Have you ever had this little nagging feeling that your home studio would need a serious performance kick to use all the old-school effects you would love to? And the only thing that has drawn you back was the unaffordable price of professional analogue gear? Well, with dual core and even more with the quadcore processors that are now available on the market, this, thankfully, is a mere shadow of the past.

Naturally, when it comes to creating high-quality music, maximum power and minimum output latency is what you need to produce better quality music, while getting rid of all those annoying little clicks, glitches and pops. And that’s where additional cores come into play. Just imagine what it means when your sequencer can farm out all the computing and mixing of your tracks and effects to more than just one racehorse in your stable…

Moreover, Intel® Core™2 Duo and Intel® Core™2 Quad processors extend your PC or Mac to have true DSP chip capabilities by delivering doubled SSE performance. This provides most of your current virtual instruments and music apps with a significant performance boost and thus enables you to have increased per-track complexity. But it doesn’t stop there: You can also create considerably more complex music projects simply because you’ll have more dedicated processing power for each of your tracks.

The Intel Core 2 Duo processor provides your music apps with up to 4 MB of L2 cache as well as a 1,066 GHz front side bus, both accelerating the processing of your music data to the max. And the Intel Core 2 Quad processor even has an 8 MB L2 cache…Along with multi core, there also comes support for 64-bit OS and enabled software. In its essence, 64-bit capability translates into more than 4 GB of usable memory. And that enables you to have more virtual instruments loaded than you ever had before.

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Benefits:

• Create high-quality music
• Virtual instruments and music apps get a significant performance boost
• Lots more virtual instruments than ever before
• More than 4 GB of usable memory

Experience The True Tone Of Music

Sound quality has always been tremendously important for attentive listeners. But how do you achieve a truly new leap in audio quality? It all starts with moving to a system supporting Intel® 64 architecture. Why should you bother? Simply said, because it gives you more than the 4 GB RAM available at max in traditional 32-bit systems. And now you can finally use all those RAM-hungry high-quality virtual instruments concurrently, like you’ve always wanted to do.

No more compromise

Forget about that 44.1 kHz/16-bit CD rate! Start listening in a new dimension: 192 kHz/32-bit quality, 7.1 surround – enabled by Intel® High Definition Audio. But doesn’t high quality also mean no glitches and pops during audio playback? Right! But that’s nothing to worry about anymore – it has been taken care of by Intel® HD Audio’s large dedicated system bandwidth.

Finally, Intel® Digital Media Boost will expedite your application performance for recording, editing, mixing and mastering. How? For example by enhancing the performance of Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) by way of special DSP instructions speeding up the calculation of real time effects and instruments. So no more need for compromises.

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Benefits:

• Use all those RAM-hungry high-quality virtual instruments concurrently
• Intel® HD Audio’s takes care of glitches and pops during audio playback
• Expedite your application performance for recording, editing, mixing and mastering