Things I’ve worked on, and almost forgotten about.Back in the mid-90’s, I was working at a little Aberystwyth company called Clef Digital Systems. We were designing the software for a thing called the PP-10 Mastering Suite for the renowned Penny+Giles, back when they did audio systems before that side got sold to TLA.
The PP-10 was an audio processing unit based around an Intel i860 RISC chip (to drive the user interface) and a TI C30 DSP. Charles Francis and I wrote an operating system for this beast: ARTOS. From what I recall, I did most of the OS design and code, while Charles did the hard stuff – the more complex DSP algorithms, such as Reverb.
And, believe it or not, the paper we wrote is still available on the net at the AES website. There’s nice.
The box itself (image from TLAudio)
Hi, i was wondering if you would be able to help with an error code that is preventing my unit from working. I have spoken to TL Audio, but they no longer support the unit (to be honest, the guy i spoke to didnt even know of it). So it would appear that you might be my last hope. If you can, i will further you more details of the fault. Thanks for your time, Greg
I’ve got a bound copy of a paper that came with my PP10 called ‘Pythagoras – Software and System Design’ by Charles Francis. Its actually marked as confidential. I guess this is the paper you’re talking about?
Unfortunately the backup battery ran out on my unit so the software was deleted from the RAM, rendering it far and away the most expensive two units of dead electronics i’ve ever owned. I don’t have the installation floppies and TL Audio support department deny ever having produced this machine, which is useful of them.
Good morning.
I know it’s a long way back but I have one of these as well as the mastering software (2000 dollars on one on floppy disk!!!). We are using it all the time although we have the Penny + Giles version. It’s in great condition. If you know someone who my want to purchase it, let me know. Thank you, Daniel. It actually still features on our web site (photos).
Hello
I came across this interesting post because I am searching for a copy of the O.S. for the TLAudio/PG PP10 (and possibly a copy of the owners manual). If you can help I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance for your time. Best regards.