Unfortunately it lacks the fantastic glowing blue logo that the rackmount Powercore system has, but TC's new Portable Powercore unit is still very appealing. You plug it into your PC or Mac through Firewire, and it takes care of lots of the signal processing - freeing up your computer CPU. Like the competing UAD-1, the system is also a stealth dongle. Back in March, TC discontinued most of their native (i.e. run on your own computer) effects, in favour of Powercore - because it's impossible to pirate Powercore effects as they won't run without the hardware. It will be available 'soon', for €760. (Via Harmony Central)
