Sonic Core visits Front End Audio with the new Ferrofish A16 MK-II

Last week, we had a great visit from Gary Bogandoff, distributor for SONIC CORE. This brand is the outgrowth of the former Creamware company in Germany which was purchased by a pair of it’s former developers; the ones’ responsible for their powerful DSP platform, SCOPE and their digital converter technology. Front End Audio had been a long term dealer for Creamware and then SONIC CORE.  Gary’s contribution to this line here in the United States is paramount to a new era in the company and a whole new crop of audio engineers’ minds being opened to the almost limitless routing and processing afforded by the SCOPE platform. 

We sat down with Gary and he gave us several mind-blowing demonstrations of the new SCOPE Xite-1 DSP Interface AND the new updated version of Sonic Core Ferrofish A16 MK-II.


The new Sonic Core Ferrofish A16 MK-II is a fantastic update to an already fantastic multi-channel AD/DA converter. We've been users and big proponents of the original 'Creamware' A16 Ultra for years. We feel that the Ultra gave a lot of bang for the buck for someone looking for a 16 channel converter with built-in ADAT I/O connectivity to their interface. However, ADAT has it's limitations and we felt that this kept the Ultra locked into the middle ground - a great step up converter, but perhaps not something that was going to be where you would end up long term.

Now with the Sonic Core Ferrofish A16 MK-II, MADI connectivity has been added in place of the Z-Link of the older units. MADI will allow you to work at rates up to 192kHz now, transmitting full channel counts. There is now also two LCD displays on the front panel to allow full I/O metering. They may be small, but these meters are crystal clear and actually very easy to read, though maybe not from across the room. No big whoop, though. The thing sounds very, very good.

And if you match this up with the Sonic Core Scope Xite-1 DSP Interface, you will have a ridiculously powerful system that rivals (and surpasses in many ways) even the most popular and most well recognized systems for flexibility and processing power - all for a fraction of what those other systems cost, AND you can run it on a laptop with an optional Express Card (a PCIe card comes included for connecting to desktop computers).


Seriously, the Scope Xite-1 has 18 SHARC processors (12 x 333MHz and 6 x 60Mhz for compatibility) in it. Not to mention, it also comes loaded with some of the best "plug-ins" and virtual instruments you've ever heard. SCOPE Xite-1’s total flexibility in DSP powered signal routing and mixing means the absolute least amount of latency as well as the ability to route several different active programs all at once to and from one another – without Rewire!  Try that with anything else!  Compare this system to anything with onboard DSP and it suddenly becomes one of the best deals out there as well as perhaps one of the most powerful audio processors available anywhere or at any price.

Sonic Core is a company to not only watch, but to get on board with!

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