What would happen if.....

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 6:02 am

You woke up tomorrow and found out that Creamware had decided to drop any further development of Scope/Pulsar and move on to something else?

Would you immediately replace your CW products with something else? If so, what?

Would you stubbornly hang on to what you got until such time it either broke or crumbled into dust?

I'm just curious to see your reactions. Mainly I'm curious to see what other direction you all would take.

Don't freak out! It's just a hypothetical question

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 7:16 am

I'd keep the card indefinitely, but scale back its importance by concentrating on native solutions. Eventually it would probably become just a never-launched background sound router. By the time I was ready to ditch it maybe it would be a much loved "classic" and everyone will be talking about its fantastic synths and flexability.

But since I've bought Kontakt and now have Absynth on order it feels like I'm on that road anyway . . .

(Now I'm just waiting to see if there will be a ModV3 anytime soon, if not, then hello Reaktor).

This premise (of a new platform) sounds reasonably likely IMHO, the big question is how compatible the two systems will be.

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wayne · Post by **wayne** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 7:26 am

I'd rock on regardless

All my other unique & special instruments will break one day too - if i spank 'em hard enough! But my pulsar isn't my musical bread'n'butter, so i don't really get worried about development that much - what is happening is amazing so far, IMO, and seems to be getting better. Miss it if it disappeared, my home studio would be kinda dull, then. Or maybe a heck of a lot less choices would be good for me...

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 8:16 am

I would buy them cheap from people who ditched them.

Its pretty hard for circuit boards to get broken. I just threw an ols ISA modem in a p1 the modem had been sitting in the bottom of a frequently scrabbled through misc junk drawer. it worked like a champ.

(the p1 that was used had bewen hanging on the wall for a while, totally not static proofed or anything) i made a whole working computer from scrounge parts to send to 3rd world.

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snoopy4ever · Post by **snoopy4ever** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 8:19 am

I'd buy more cards also.

RedSun · Post by **RedSun** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 8:30 pm

I'd buy as many used cards as I could and put them in a rackmount computer.

I would just consider it as I would any other hardware synth/mixer/processor I already have: a fixed set of very flexible resources.

RedSun .:.

Post by **Guest** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 8:58 pm

It won't happen!!!
but the dated hardware will be cheaper, that will be the future.
And Creamware will finally get the hold of some smarties!!
Lets pray!
Do you believe the power of prayer?

bosone · Post by **bosone** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 7:17 am

i too will try to buy some cheap card! i don0't think i'll sell or move towards another platform, because nothing can be more fun to play and work than pulsar!

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 10:34 am

I'd definitely keep my Pulsar2 card.
I spent too much time and effort on getting my stuff configured.

otter · Post by **otter** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 3:35 pm

I would keep it also. SFP can do anything i need in my Studio.DSP Power is always too short. Anyway you can put the cards in an new PC with more native power

On the other hand i really would appreciate any sort of "upgrade program" to the -hypothetical- new platform.