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Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 10:52 am
by brain1
i saw this on the creamware forum:<p>
"this is the new news
TDM will be working under Creameare in the next Ver of SPF...
our dealer give me this INFO"
Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 10:59 am
by jupiter8
No way.
That ain't going to happen.
SFP runs on Analog Devices Sharc 32 bit float processors.
Protools TDM run on 24 bit integer Motorolas.
This is a joke.
Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 11:49 am
by snoopy4ever
May be it's not really a "setup and run" thing, may be it's some kind of agreement between some TDM pluggin developpers to create SFP versions... who knows??.. that'd be really nice for all of us.., don't know for protools users.
Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 8:32 pm
by brain1
maybe some kind of TDM emulator for SFP?
Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 1:10 am
by otter
or maybe this means that CW is being taken over by Digi....
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 1:13 am
by caleb
Interesting news...Access Virus on SFP???
Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 2:51 am
by astroman
after John's Solaris there's probably not much need for this
specially at $795 suggested retail price...
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 3:17 am
by caleb
I agree astro. I couldn't give a stuff about Virus - hardware or software.
Solaris - yummy!
Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 4:40 am
by Fede
otter: why not?
Apple acquired Emagic
Tascam acquired Nemesis
Sony acquired Sonic Foundry
Adobe acquired Syntrillium
Fender acquired Jackson
Pinnacle is acquiring Steinberg
CW effectively has a desirable hardware also for Digi and now also a complete and stable OS...
Fede
Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 10:07 am
by astroman
Digidesign belongs to AVID on which M$soft holds a minority - and all three are working together very closely.
Until they haven't kicked that PALLADIUM and DRM bs publicly off the table I consider them enemies.
Mr. $Bill himself admitted that the 'protection of artist's work' opened their eyes for the real potential of that approch, if it would be applied to data flow in office apps and email systems instead of CDs.
cheers, Tom
Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 10:45 am
by otter
On 2003-05-28 05:40, Fede wrote:
otter: why not?
Apple acquired Emagic
Tascam acquired Nemesis
Sony acquired Sonic Foundry
Adobe acquired Syntrillium
Fender acquired Jackson
Pinnacle is acquiring Steinberg
CW effectively has a desirable hardware also for Digi and now also a complete and stable OS...
Fede
yeah, let´s all just hope this STAYS a joke....
Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 5:23 am
by BlackSun
There could be a small piece of trouth in it..
Remember: CW is working together with fairchild now...
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 8:01 am
by jupiter8
You mean Fairlight?
I fail to see the relevance of this as the Fairlight consoles use Sharc processors as well.
So instead of programming their own plug ins they bought them from CW instead.
You can't run TDM plugs on CW cards period.
Unless Digidesign changes from Motorola processors to Sharcs. Or CW changes from Sharcs to Motorolas. Which is very unlikley.
Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 7:24 pm
by dehuszar
I'm still happy to hear that Fairchild is working with Creamware. Even if nothing interesting comes to the Creamware platform from Fairchild (which I doubt will prove to be true) having more associations/partnerships with big name companies is good for the Creamware name.
Sam
Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 10:49 pm
by hubird
fairchild??
Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 3:47 am
by jupiter8
That CW is working with big companies is of course a good thing.
But i still fail to see the relevance this has with wether or not SFP will run TDM plugs.
btw. FAIRCHILD made the probably the best compressor ever made. But are out of buisnes since forever.
FAIRLIGHT is a australian company that more or less invented the digital sampler.
Now they make digital recorders and mixers.
Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 5:21 am
by visilia
Fairlight went out of business a couple of months ago. However, it's not the first time they went bankrupt, so maybe we'll see them back some time later.
Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 6:55 am
by Spirit
I met the gurus behind Fairlight several times: once when they were getting big and famous; another time when they were at their peak and had just released the incredible A$100,000 Series-III machine; and again when they were goinf down and struggling and were hoping for miracles with their (I think) Voicetracker (?).
Their story is a little sad: great idea that flourished briefly, was crushed by cheaper technology, and then for decades after struggling to get back again. Sort of like a "one hit wonder" band...
Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 7:04 am
by thorkell
Farlight is now mainly making video editing systems for professionals (great systems). Fairchild on the other hand made the great airplane Fairchild Metro.
Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 7:40 am
by hubird
everything explained, cleared up and informed!
Great.