You can dream !
Every user has different demands.
Problem or advantage ?
Scope, as a standalone system, works very well in 32Bit.
It ALSO works in 64Bit, but not every device coming from the past, especially not 3rd party from the past or when former coders of ancient devices leaved the boat already @Creamware times and their devices were locked.
As an example:
How many payed applications and plugins were lost for loyal customers when Native Instruments (and others) decided for discontinuation of soft- and hardware devices by development and marketing reasons ?
And these politics continue ...
YOU´re able to use ancient and already discontinued Creamware hardware along w/ S|C hardware in harmony still,- which is a rare case in the industry.
I´m happy I can !
In fact, what you IDEALLY want is all the old system upgraded for the modern world running as "realtime" SCOPE (standalone) and as a fully fledged audio card w/ (ideally multiclient) 64Bit ASIO driver,- p.ex. like and on par with RME,- AND using the old hardware and (ideally) almost every device created for SCOPE ever.
This will NEVER happen, period.
When big companies w/ hundreds of employees aren´t able to realize such project, a small company like Sonic Core is unable too.
All the big companies like NI, Steinberg, Waves and whoelse discontinue hard- and software anytime just only to move on and because of profit- and marketing reasons.
It costs insane money for the average user following time limited software update/upgrade plans and/or move to subscription as also buying new hardware all the time.
One of the reasons why S|C lacks funds and manpower is,- they don´t behave like these companies.
Instead there´s lots of idealism and contrariarism,- the latter in the sense of "realtime" operation.
Up to now, SCOPE hardware cannot operate like typical Windows soundcards.
When it does, the "realtime" idealism is lost.
I´m sure we´ll see new S|C hardware and new software one day and as it was announced some time ago, but it possibly won´t run old SCOPE as it was anymore then.
As much as I want the announced new driver myself and my "must have" is
"total recall on device level incl. proper memorized MIDI CC assignment",- I´m still an idealist too and use SCOPE as it is on ancient PCI cards and XITE-1 w/ the luxury of running separate machines for.
And because SCOPE itself is humble on CPU and doesn´t require latest/greatest OS,- it´s cost effective still since I´m able to use my older machines running Win XP and/or Win7 for SCOPE, as also can choose Win10 or 11 when I want to,- the latter currently for the price not everything will work perfectly.
And even when there will be the new driver released, it won´t fix everything and even w/ an all new SCOPE,- if that will ever exist,- be prepared not every of your ancient Creamware SCOPE devices will run perfect or at all.
You simply cannot blame 3rd party developers left the platform or gave up by private reasons, age, illness or whatever destiny, or made the decision to go "native only" or for founding their own hardware company like John Bowen (ZARG).
When you don´t see any use of SCOPE or no future for, you´re always free selling your cards and keys for cheap, even your XITE-1 or -1D and to a idealistic user who´s looking for an affordable SCOPE system,- and move elsewhere.
I don´t use SCOPE as the one-and-only "the DAW" recording system and have RME RayDat in a Win7 x64 rackmount PC as also a RME Hammerfall 9652 in a Win XP 32Bit rackmount PC which I both also don´t upgrade to Win10 or 11 ...
Win10 and 11 is for my,- also ancient already,- laptops.
SCOPE systems are different "tool box" systems for me I connect via MIDI and ADAT.
When I wanted just only a compact and fast DAW system running almost everything natively,- I´d take the money and buy a powerfull Apple M processor computer running Logic and/or Studio One Pro together w/ some 3rd party plugins,- and that´s it then.
But I don´t.
Bud
Just as the samplers, and anything (still) using 32 code in a 64 bit architecture Gary.