You may be right, but like I mentionned, if you are at 7 cards total, you KNEW they didn't work well with dual core/dual CPU, so you still have no pretext.
Also, since CW cards aren't dumb I/O-less plugin accelerators, you could very easily put the cards in a single CPU computer, and hook it up to your dualcore CPU with ADAT. If you can afford a dualcore systeme, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to afford an additional ADAT interface to it also. Then you can just put the CW cards in a system that is known to be stable right away, and still get the benefits of dualcore. So it's not like you are stuck and can't do anything.
XTC will never work well, it's not a matter of throwing more programmers at the problem, it's a matter of trying to use a protocol made for software synths to integrate hardware devices, which is a flat-out braindead stupid idea, but required by hordes of wannabe-musicians who "just want to make music and couldn't possibly be bothered by technical stuff" (sounds extremely funny to me given that they all use modern sequencers, which are really extremely technical.)
The Virus TI, which promised "total integration" with the sequencer with a VST gimmick, was released almost 11 months late, and for 2 months the mailing lists were FULL, FULL of issues highly similar to the XTC ones. Worked for some people, not for others, works but clicks n pops, works but plugin-delay compensation/latency is unusable, crashes but managed to make it work after a full XP re-install (mm deja-vu =P), OMG it took Access 10 months to get this out the door why doesn't it work well for everyone OMG I'm selling mine and never touching Access products again, etc etc.
So if you want to have some XTC-mode that works, take your issue to Steinberg (who designed the VST protocol), take your issue to sequencer vendors and developers to try and get them to agree on a standard to integrate hardware (they're in competition technically, so good luck!!!), or even to Digidesign, if you bug them they might open up the whole TDM standard, just for you =P But before everyone agrees on a standard, or before Creamware releases their own sequencing package, you can totally forget about it, and there's very little/none Creamware or anyone else can do about it.
I might be wrong on this, but I don't think XTC, dual cpu support, nor more plugins would have helped Creamware at all. What *would* have helped them is to make all plugins crackable (appeals to the huge but very low fund cheapass VST weenies), OR have some brand sticker involving Waves or whoever else all over the place AND include a ProTools-comparable sequencer to solve the whole integration thinger. And charge more!
Finally, I don't know where you got the idea that most hardware made pre-2000 still works fine on modern computers. Most of that hardware *doesn't even have drivers for Windows XP*. But yeah, if you run Windows ME on that new dualcore, it'll work fine
PS Don't listen to dealers, next time contact the company itself =P
On 2005-12-11 00:30, jea wrote:
Hi Symbiote,
dual cpu's have been there since NT4 for consumers. And this is before 2000. Hardware made before 2000 often work well in modern computers too, with or without dual cpu.
I assure you, my dealer told me that Pulsars were "futureproof", and was leading the most leading technology at that time.
And there were some other DSP choices at that time.
I choose Pulsar One.
But the time went, and I bought several other Creamware cards.
I now have a total of 7 cards, including a Creamware TripleDAT ISA.
But computers have been a lot more powerful also, and with the power we have today, sequencers get more powerfull too. But if we can't use our cards together with integration, we are kind of stuck here in single cpu land. I think that if Creamware (to live up to it's name) have to do this now. They should have done it several years ago, to protect their technology cashwise. Imagine what happened if XTC were working, dual cpu, and lots of new plugins were released in 2000-2003.... UAD and TC would have a hard competition, don't you think? And it must be easy to install, like UAD.
Since CW have not dealt with this issue, I am not sure they ever will, I don't think they are capable of it anymore, I don't think they have any qualified programmers to do it.
Otherwise they would have done it in 2000. To protect their business.
