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for the noobs, VIA=poor performance.....

On 2004-12-21 11:25, allusion31 wrote:

On 2004-12-20 23:54, enb141 wrote:
I bought mine because in those days they had a good support for new Drivers and technologies like ASIO, EASY, GSIF in where Creamware was a pioneer but unfortunely they are not supporting it any more

Well that's my story, tell us yours.

Does this mean you believe there really isn't any support for these products anymore?

I am looking to purchase a scope system and I am alil timid with the quality of the support and new drivers. Any information will be appreciated.

Well ASIO is working flawlessly but we need new GSIF drivers and also we need better drivers for Direct Audio (DX or whatever).

When I mention about EASI I did it because they used to support any kind of tecnology in the market.

simply for the synths and modular

cw is THE BEST money can buy
better than some digidesign product.
lots a classic synth...sampler...expansions...
what you need more?
:lol

I bought my Powersampler by luck.
My "state of the art" Turtle Beach Daytona PCI, was really bad, so i had to buy something new. Creamware was unknown to me.

In the summer of 2000, i bought my powersamler, simply by luck.
(it was a echo card i wanted).
Together with a yamaha xg60 synth card, my p2 450 mHz became a killer .

Later, my powersamler was hosted by a VIAchip amd 1200mHz pc, and now it work flowlessly in a p4 - together with a pulsar2 and noah.
The xg60, sorry to say, had to leave me in 2001, it was verry nice, but ISA-slot.

My only main concern, was back in 2001, with my via chip amd pc.
These where solved with the help from this forum.

Rock on! and new year

I bought my first pulsarII for hard disk recording,
now I'm using it for almost everything, sampling, mixing, mastering, effects etc... I hardly use any external hardware anymore.

I bought muy first PowerSampler because there were no luna available, plus the seller didn't have any clue on whether if Powersampler and luna were the same. Had a very good understanding on how creamware devices worked, as I bomped into a creamware advertising by chance, at the time I was going for a Yamaha DSP factory, fortunatly realised that it was really outdated compared to what cream had to offer.

I bought it because I believed it could do what was written on the box (Pulsar XTC). Unfortunately, it didn't. Now I've sold it and I'm back in making music instead of constant troubleshooting.

On 2004-12-25 13:31, akisd28 wrote:
I bought it because I believed it could do what was written on the box (Pulsar XTC). Unfortunately, it didn't. Now I've sold it and I'm back in making music instead of constant troubleshooting.

Gee, that's too bad. I am perfectly happy with my two systems.

R

i don't know why i bought my first pulsar, but i know why i bought the second one.

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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: sandrob on 2004-12-25 17:25 ]</font>

I first picked up a Luna II and A/B'd it side by side an SB Audigy and Edirol UA-5 - it blew me away. When I got into the Scope software paradigm I was totally sold. Needless to say I quickly consumed all the DSP power on the Luna so I added a Pulsar 2 (to handle the Six-String and B2003) and then a Scope Pro. All three sit happily together under Cubase and Sonar and I master to Audition through SFP Optimaster and other stuff. Vinco is a great compressor too. What can I say - I am constantly awed by the capability and control.... the kids have my Audigy in their box and the UA-5 and it's finicky drivers - I can't give it away!

I got my P1 in early 99. Used it for a while, then went to a native PC-based studio (I don't do synth stuff) based around an RME soundcard. The Pulsar sat on a shelf collecting dust for several years. The horribly broken 24-bit WDM drivers didn't help any. But now SONAR supports ASIO drivers, the WDM drivers actually work, SFP 4 works, and I need the extra I/O the Pulsar provides. It's working nicely at the moment and I might actually have a use for the synths/DSPs besides basic audio routing.

Aside from the latency (13ms, old hardware), I think it'll be a keeper while I wait for the next generation of FireWire audio interfaces (or digital mixer) to emerge. A 16 channel digital mixer with 8 very good mic preamps, 8 line inputs, very good A/D conversion (24/96K), 2x2 MIDI I/O and a FireWire interface to the PC would be about perfect.

The shop owner tricked me too into buying a Pulsar 1 (back in 1998) Pulsar software 1.2 was new then. I worked nice under win98, only I wanted more DSP-power, so in 2000 I bought the Scope SRB. Too bad, the Pulsar 1 & Scope SRB NEVER worked together properly cuz it always gave errors when using more than a few dsp's. After more than a year of useless support (had to buy more mem, new mobo, heavier powersupply, new cpu, all twice) "they" (a friendly dutch importer of CW-stuff) arranged a deal to put a plate on the SRB for free if I bought the mixer /synth expansion pack, so I could use the scope as single card.

Looks to me they sold me an incomplete product (that never worked, what it was meant for). So I sold the Pulsar 1 and now I have the standalone Scope SRB with plate on it (and had to wait for months for it..) So thanks to great Creamware I spent € 1100,- for the pulsar (and sold it for € 500,-) and about € 1000,- for useless upgrades.

The Scope still works nice & perfect now (even under xp, with three videocards next to it for my 3x17" tft), but I'll NEVER buy an extra cw card, only use 1 card in 1 machine.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: gregor on 2005-01-04 13:06 ]</font>

i use a p1 a pulsar1srb and a power pulsar in one machine with NO problems. if you used multiple cards in a computer with 3 vid cards, there may have been serious irq problems with the cwa cards as they don't like to share....

I got the Scope Professional 2 months ago to replace my Audiophile 2496. Sill learning it now. I got it mainly because I wanted a patchable modular synth and the fantastic synths.

<off-topic> GaryB, thank you for your reaction, but at that time I used just one videocard.. Now I have Nvidia + Ati + Matrox + Scope in one pc, and it somehow works perfect (3x tft, 1x crt, 1x tv) </off-topic>

more off topic...
gregor, i'm glad it's working now anyway.

After buying the UAD-1 card and seeing how much better Cubase ran (not to mention the high quality effects I now had), I looked for a card that would run virtual synths in the same way. It turned out to be so much more than that - high end virtual synths, vocoders, guitar amp emulations, professional quality reverbs, modular synth design, basically a first-generation virtual studio-in-a-card. The caveat is, to really make use of its features, you need lots of DSP power, and currently that is not cheap. (But it's not nearly expensive as buying equivalents for all those high quality plugins.)

I missed my old roland juno 106's, I had done a lot of work with them and regretted selling them. I tried to find one at a reasonable price but they are hard to get now (in Australia at least) or overpriced so I started looking at other options. I found out about Creamware and Uknow on the net and read as much as I could, the reviews were great. I have had the card and synths for two and a half weeks now and despite a still outstanding issue I am very happy, the sounds of the synths are great, I love analogue stuff. I am looking forward to learning more and getting into the other areas's of this equipment. Thanks to everyone here I have been reading my head off to get clue's and ideas.
Ken

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