TC Electronic PowerCore Compact

The PowerCore Compact provides portable power for artists and studios on the move -- well-suited for laptop production environments on the road. With the FireWire connectors and the external power supply it only takes seconds to connect your PowerCore Compact, giving you instant access to serious processing and production tools.

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 host 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… read more 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 Compacts 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 Element 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!

Included Plug-ins

24/7 degrees C
Convincing vintage compression and limiting using one of the most desired vintage models for PowerCore!

24/7 degrees C was inspired by one of the vintage processors synonymous with classic dynamics processing for mixing and mastering. This plug-in recreates the details of the sound and user interface of this hardware processor as closely as possible, delivering virtual vintage at its best.

The user interface is simple and straightforward: increasing the input will drive the limiter depending on the selected ratio. Even the famous 4-Button-mode was implemented. A special new feature is an Auto-Gain sensing for the Output parameter that adjusts the output depending on the program material. Four stereo or up to six mono instances of 24/7 degrees C run on just one of PowerCore's DSPs, without taxing the CPU.

Character
Far from being a traditional EQ or compression tool, Character identifies and develops the characteristics of any audio source.

Character is easy to use and represents a new approach to getting great sound in virtually no time. It is based on the Intelligent Adaptive Filtering (IAF) technology from Noveltech Solutions. The audio processing employs both the frequency response and the dynamic properties of the input source in a highly time-varying sense.

As opposed to traditional equalization, Character processing is non-linear and highly sensitive to the source material's original characteristics. E.g. it is possible to highlight the "guitar-ness" of a bass by merely selecting one of three processing modes, setting the "target" frequency, and adjusting to the desired "character" level. Character is particularly useful for single instruments but can also create good results for group mixes such as drums or vocals etc.

Chorus.Delay
Chorus.Delay provides the trademark TC Electronic chorus sound. It recreates the 1210 Spatial Expander with its unique modulation images like Chorus, Flanging and Slap Delay with very flexible routing and filtering facilities. Of course you can adjust the modulation speed in BPM.

Classic Verb
The new Classic Verb enhances the out-of-the-box reverb flexibility of PowerCore significantly! This new processor adds the other category of warm, lush reverb effects often associated with big expensive hardware processors to the effects menu.

EQ Sat
EQsat Custom is a very clean sounding and carefully crafted EQ-model for any application including mastering.

The processor provides 5 bands with 3 parametric ones and 2 additional shelving bands. The frequency response display gives instant feedback on the applied equalization curve. And what's more, the unique saturation emulation can be activated to create that warm, analog sound whenever desired.

Filtriod
With its dual filters and extensive modulation capabilities, Filtroid brings the sound of analog filter banks to PowerCore.

Filtroid consists of two filters with low, hi and band-pass shapes with 12, 18 or 24 db slope characteristics. The filters can be used in series or parallel for the utmost creative control, and the external side-chain input provision allows for modulation of the filter from another track.
Extensive modulation capabilities include independent LFOs per filter and an envelope follower. Tempo sync ensures that filter movements are always synchronized to the speed of the sequencer, and a distortion unit adds an additional edge to the sound, if desired.

With serial or parallel filter routing, massive modulation options, side chain input, resonance with self-oscillation, envelope follower, distortion and out of phase modulation, PowerCore users have all the tools they need to make the most extreme filter effects.

Master X3
Knock out Punch for any mixes or masters. Period. MASTER X3 is the virtual incarnation of the TC Electronic Finalizer, the standard mastering processor in the pro audio field.

MASTER X expedites the mastering process by integrating several phases of
mastering into a single, easy to use interface. It features multiband processing with expansion, compression and limiting separately for each band. High quality uncorrelated dithering is included as well.

The intuitive user interface features many new ideas to make the critical mastering process faster and easier. The overall processing characteristics are controlled via "Target Curves" that simplify the handling by providing a global processing style for all bands in all modules.

The interaction between the bands can be fine tuned by applying "Target Factors" which determine the frequency focus of each processing module, significantly reducing the number of required user parameters to set this complex process up. "Soft Clipping" even provides "analog" sound whenever desired.

Megareverb
The unique algorithms are based on years of ongoing research and the core technology of the TC Electronic M5000 hi-end studio processor. With even better diffusion, denser tails and more realistic room impressions than ever before, MegaVerb provides the ultimate plug-in reverb solution for PowerCore.

Powercore 01
PowerCore is an open platform with a lot of potential to grow even further - PowerCore 01 is the first taste of synthesis technology to come.

This mono-synth will deliver results similar to the famous SH-101, with some added features like velocity and drive. Punchy Bass lines, synthetic percussion sounds or synth-leads -- PowerCore 01 can do it all!

Tubifex
Tubifex includes three tube stages and a speaker simulator for truly convincing amp modeling. Each of the three stages is based on a classic 12AX7 design and can be individually adjusted making the sonic possibilities virtually endless, from warm tones to screaming overdrive. The speaker simulator was derived directly from the impulse measurements of a 2 x 12 cabinet. Additional adjustments can be made with the virtual microphone placement control, which simulates the subtle tonal variations achieved with different mic techniques.

Tubifex also includes a fingerprint-based noise reduction filter that allows settings to be saved independently from the amp settings. An expander enables further improvement of the overall sound. As a 'hybrid' plug-in, Tubifex uses both native and PowerCore DSP resources. Combining the strengths of both worlds results in very low-latency processing, which enables guitar players to use Tubifex in real-time.

Vintage CL
Hi-quality compression and limiting on each channel is very hard to realize when limited to native processing only. Vintage CL delivers just that--up to 28 Vintage CLs can be run on one PowerCore card, or 7 per DSP.

In spite of this efficiency, Vintage CL employs a carefully crafted algorithm -- emulating the behaviour of industry-standard analog compression devices, best imagined as "dbx-style" to use a classic reference, delivering comparable results in the hardware world.

VoiceStrip
This complete voice processing channel includes all tools required for vocal sound adjustment: Compression, De-Essing, a dedicated Voice EQ, Lo Cut Filter and Gate.

Compression and EQ are modeled after classic hardware devices that deliver hi-end vintage tube sound, but naturally VoiceStrip can also be used for subtle processing.

All modules can be run simultaneously providing you with instant total recall for professional voice sound! read less