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A BTB-1 Installation requires a Digital IO Card, a BTB-1 Buss Transceiver, a twisted pair cable and a D0-PCI Interface Card. Photos of the component pieces are on our hardware identification page.
The BTB-1 Bus Transceiver and the Digital IO Card are modern production components and can be manufactured as needed. If you are upgrading from an earlier Synclavier® PowerPC™ or SynclavierX installation you may use your existing cable and D0-PCI card. The D0-PCI card requires a modification to work with the BTB-1 which you can order below.
We have a limited number of new D0-PCI cards available for purchase. They are expensive to manufacture due to the difficult procurement of the through-hole integrated circuits used on the board.
All payments are processed via PayPal in U.S. Dollars. Full payment will be required before shipment. As this is a custom-manufactured product, all deposits are non-refundable.
System Requirements - Synclavier³ requires a Mac capable of running Mac OS X 10.9 ("Mavericks") or later. That includes most Macs from 2008 on (check this link for details). For the BTB-1 you need a Mac that can connect to PCI Express; that precludes the early iMacs and Mac Minis even though those machine can run 10.9. For iMacs and Mac Minis you would need a Thunderbolt™-capable Mac and a Thunderbolt™ to PCIe Expansion chassis. Some pre-Thunderbolt™ MacBook Pros could use an ExpressCard/34-to-PCI-Express adapter. Mac Pros 2008 or newer should support the BTB-1 directly via PCI Express (up through Mid-2012) or via Thunderbolt™ (Mid-2012 and after).
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BTB-1 Bus Transceiver Package. Includes:
• BTB-1 Bus Transceiver
• PCIe-2 PCI-Express Digital IO Card
• Synclavier³ Software License
• Installation and Setup Support Incident
$1,249.00 USD Plus Shipping
You will need to purchase a D0-PCI Modification or a New D0-PCI Interface Card to complete your installation.
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D0-PCI Upgrade Modification. Includes:
• Factory modification to your existing D0-PCI Interface Card
$95.00 USD Plus Shipping (shipping included with BTB-1 purchase)
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D0-PCI New Production. Includes:
• New D0-PCI Interface Card
$799.00 USD Plus Shipping (shipping included with BTB-1 purchase)
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Still have questions? Send an email to Mitch Marcoulier.
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| Synclavier³ Product Information |
The Synclavier³ Application has been released! Check out our Updates and Downloads page for all the details.
Right: The Contextual Menu in the Asset Library Window can call up a sound file to any Partial Timbre with a single click. The sound file is stored on your Mac® and can be in AIFF, WAV, CAF or Synclavier-Native format. See more screen shots on our Synclavier³ Screen Shot Page.
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Here is shot of our very first BTB-1 production unit. We have tested BTB-1 No. 1 with two Synclavier® systems, two Thunderbolt-1 Chassis, several SCSI hard drives and a Tahiti III optical drive. We have also tested with a Direct-to-Disk. See some more photos on our Hardware Summary page.
Some interior shots of the Tunderbolt-1 Chassis are available in our Thunderbolt-1 Assembly Guide. Installing the PCI-Express Digital I/O Card in a PCI-Express Mac® would be very similar. |
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