3rd Party Development on other DSP cards?

[8-Bit]

I have been wondering something that makes me appreciate my CW cards so much more:

Do any of the other DSP cards (RME, UAD, etc) have so many 'non-official' development going on? Do they even have developers kits like we have the SDK?

One thing I must say about the creamware product is that everyone involved here on planetz and on #scope (efnet IRC) continues to drive the product regardless of Creamware's situation.

I love my creamware. I wish it got as much 'hype' as pro tools so that they'd get the respect they truly deserve.

ROck,
8

[valis]

Just for the record RME's HDSP cards have NO effects, and the 'dsp' on the card is an FPGA chip that acts as a re-programmable dsp chip handling the 'totalmix' duties.

[symbiote]

To get the same hype as ProTools, they've have to sell their cards/systems for 5 to 10 times as much as they do.

[astroman]

...which earned at least 50% of it's reputation from running on rock solid Macs

cheers, Tom
ps: I've been tempted a couple of times to buy a complete ProTools system of that time for 1-2k Euro

[interloper]

Anyone care to wager whether this PCI-X thing will ever happen for Scope?

[astroman]

it's complete nonsense - how many audiostreams would you want to move to memory (to yield a higher load than a 'regular' PCI card can handle).

you cannot design a new interface to compensate a design flaw, which wasn't that obvious 7(!) years ago...
'PCI capacity limit reached' is easily cured by local memory on the board that hosts the Sharcs.
Ergo:
if a new hardware, then WITH local mem - no PCI bus required.
Give it an MLan or whatever FW connection and it will easily integrate into numerous OSes and be a nice, (hopefully good-looking) portable box

cheers, Tom

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[symbiote]

That's called a Kyma =P

[interloper]

I'm more referring to providing hardware for Mac users.

I'm jamming on my PC with 3 boards.