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Old Creamware Photo
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:54 am
by ladiki
I found this photo during searching for creamware history , and i would like to share, and i would like to get some info like the history of creamware ( in English plz if available).
Regards,
Ladiki

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:11 am
by erminardi
Cool!
Shame that then they have removed the memory bank slot.
That solution would surely resolve the big problem of the PCI overflow, even if, at the end, in 1998 the ram cost very more than today.
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:00 am
by astroman
afaik the bottom 2 pictures show engineering prototypes of the original Pulsar before the product was released.
There are also some photos where this board is shown together with a touchscreen driven controller and a keyboard. Blueprints that never made it to reality.
The TDAT16 on the first picture probably was a quite successfull product.
Based on TripleDat recording software it was an affordable way (with the A16 box) to do 16-track digital multitracking in the pre-millenium years.
The card was not developed at Creamware, but is an OEM version of the Sonorus Studio. As a sidenote the partnership ended rather unfriendly as Sonorus later accused Creamware to have stolen intellectual property...
Dunno any details but that was what Sonorus support told me on the phone as their reason why they wouldn't support any of the TDAT boards at all
cheers, Tom
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:24 am
by Mr-Bit
"There are also some photos where this board is shown together with a touchscreen driven controller and a keyboard. Blueprints that never made it to reality."
It's reality for me as I have a Lemur commanding my scope setup (not the furry kind) this reletivly small rig is supa flexible/powerful, the Lemur and Scope are the ultimate team hunters for me Scope can still hold its head high in 2008.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:31 am
by dawman
They are definately 2 peas in a pod.
A couple of members here use that pair.
It would be perfect for production work and well suited for live FOH chores.
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:34 am
by Lima
I remember that some years ago I've played with a creamware device inside a cabinet... I've also made a video, but at the moment I don't have any idea on where I've putted the tape.
If I'll find it I'll put on divx for sharing!

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:37 am
by krizrox
Those are priceless. Thanks for sharing.
I still remember attending a Creamware in-store demonstration of Pulsar many years ago (probably 1998 or 1999) at the only music store in the area that actually sold Creamware products - Gand Sound and Music in Northlake, IL. The demo was mostly about showing off the virtual synths and I remember the Creamware guy had lots of problems with the demo (it kept crashing). I remember sitting there thinking to myself, "Well, this is nothing that would interest me, I don't play keyboards". I was so into TripleDAT at the time, I didn't see this as anything I'd ever be interested in. And besides, at the time, it was freaking expensive.
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:08 am
by pollux
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:19 am
by hifiboom

very nice.
I wonder, who originally had the Scope idea? to build a card that emulates everything in realtime?
was it Frank Hund or a cw developer, an employee ?
my recommendation : soniccore could a section cw/sc history....
From TripleDAT to Scope Fusion 5
that would be cool.

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:27 am
by erminardi
This layout is cooler than actual, IMO

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:29 am
by erminardi
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:53 am
by hifiboom
seems to be some kind of vector synth, where you can rotate through the 4 oscillators...
very futuristic design

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:23 am
by Lima
The first layout of the 2 showed by Erminardi is similar to the Reaktor one.
I would love to have that kind of interface beside the standard Modular enviroment.
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:26 am
by kylie
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:38 am
by pollux
It'll probably be available by 2010

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:23 am
by astroman
2010 was The Year we made Contact...
hopefully NI doesn't turn that into a slogan to be ahead of their time
cheers, Tom
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:13 am
by krizrox
$40,000 for a super audio computer. Wow. Let me see, I think I have a spare $40K laying around here somewhere.

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:59 am
by erminardi
krizrox wrote:$40,000 for a super audio computer. Wow. Let me see, I think I have a spare $40K laying around here somewhere.

Bah, not so much... actually, at the last quotation, 40.000$ are almost 2.000 euros

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:02 am
by Lima
Wow... A cool super computer!
Jimmy has done a similar thing with few money in these days... tho

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:45 am
by alfonso
Seen this?
SCOPE CONTROLLER / mod 5000 (1998)
found the pic here:
http://www.synrise.de/docs/types/c/creamware.htm