I'm seeing many new "faces"

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:31 pm

During the bankrupt-days of CreamWare I think the same number of CW users were growing old together. Within the last year or so I've seen many new names floating around here. There are new ASB users, too! This is really good news. Hey, newbies, why don't you write in and tell us your stories?

Cheers,

Shayne

Crickstone · Post by **Crickstone** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:10 pm

Hi,
I haven't been around that long and have just finished building two scope systems. I researched a long time for cards and systems and kept coming back to Creamware and PlanetZ, which I must say guided me along the way tremendously. I can't think of any other platform that I would even consider right now and hope that my investment in Creamware helps foster more development. The support from Ralf has been fabulous and the quick responses from other PlanetZers has been nothing short of terrific...I'm very happy to say the least..... and that's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

robi79 · Post by **robi79** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:37 am

Hi everybody!

I'm new to this forum and creamware cards. I was building a new daw leaving my notebook for a desktop. I wanted a pci audio card and had to decide between rme hdsp or creamware and finally I... Since those hdsp cards don't come up with 64bit drivers, too, I went creamware just to have those plugins while I'm still able to use those rme converters. Till now I'm really happy with my decision. But I really really hope, they will come up with new drivers for 64bit win. Drop xtc, stop developing vintage synth remakes just let all standing there, sit down for an hour and make this little driver, please!

JL · Post by JL » Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:32 pm

On 2006-01-10 00:37, robi79 wrote:
Hi everybody!

I'm new to this forum and creamware cards. I was building a new daw leaving my notebook for a desktop. I wanted a pci audio card and had to decide between rme hdsp or creamware and finally I... Since those hdsp cards don't come up with 64bit drivers, too, I went creamware just to have those plugins while I'm still able to use those rme converters. Till now I'm really happy with my decision. But I really really hope, they will come up with new drivers for 64bit win. Drop xtc, stop developing vintage synth remakes just let all standing there, sit down for an hour and make this little driver, please!

Why do you need 64bit drivers? Are you planning to have over 4GB of ram.

Post by **irrelevance** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:09 pm

I purchased my 1st Creamware card last year. It was a pulsar II going for £400 with the basic bundle, but still a great price. It's funny though because I hadn't planned on doing this. In actual fact I had already purchased a new scope pro card but the order was taking some time to come through (I hate Turnkey). So I've been on 21 DSPs of heaven and I have to be honest hell...at times, but always knowing that Creamware was the right choice.

I hear alot of talk about the financial difficulties that the company has and may still be facing and I can't understand how a concept such as Scope which is still innovative even today + which has been implemented with great success IMO (yes there may be a few points that need attention/enhancing) has been passed over for other less interesting less important brands/tools.

PlanetZ is a great community too! I really feel the passion here

I'm having a great time, I know you guys are too

iskra · Post by **iskra** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:27 pm

I've been lurking on these boards for a long time, don't post much cos I don't get enough time to make music (especially now I have a small child) & that comes first

I started with a pulsar II, then when external mixer died, I got luna II & in/out box, much better (& more dsp) than having an external mixer

this is a fantastic resource, thanks particularly to all those who have posted mod patches, devices, presets etc, in particular I've using frequency splitter recently created by JoeKa, its great thnks

JL · Post by JL » Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:55 pm

On 2006-01-10 15:27, iskra wrote:
I've been lurking on these boards for a long time

Me too. I think it was 2003 when i bought my first Luna2. I have to admit, that i was little disappointed in the processing power. Today i can't work without the routing window, it is the best thing in the SFP.

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:12 pm

ya know, I never really took note of the routing window.. I mean, people rave about it but since I've used it so long, I didn't think much of it. 'till recently, fiddling around with my friend's RME bus routing interface.. I mean, it's a typical bus screen, but it was so frickin' confusing!! It took me like an hour to figure out what was connected to what.

JL · Post by JL » Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:27 pm

On 2006-01-10 16:12, kensuguro wrote:
ya know, I never really took note of the routing window.. I mean, people rave about it but since I've used it so long, I didn't think much of it. 'till recently, fiddling around with my friend's RME bus routing interface.. I mean, it's a typical bus screen, but it was so frickin' confusing!! It took me like an hour to figure out what was connected to what.

Scope routing window is so easy, because you can see all the virtual connections.

nprime · Post by **nprime** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:17 pm

On 2006-01-10 15:09, irrelevance wrote:

I hear alot of talk about the financial difficulties that the company has and may still be facing and I can't understand how a concept such as Scope which is still innovative even today + which has been implemented with great success IMO (yes there may be a few points that need attention/enhancing) has been passed over for other less interesting less important brands/tools.

I don't think the people in charge of CW at eh beginning uderstood how to market the product successfully in the U.S. It blows away the UAD card in so many ways, but the general public in North America was terribly uninformed about Pulsar. the treatment that I receicved form CW at the time (1999), was inexcusable.

That was then this is now.

I love my Scope system.

R

robi79 · Post by **robi79** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:34 am

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Why do you need 64bit drivers? Are you planning to have over 4GB of ram.

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My system is 64bit ready and I want to use this extra power. Everything works just fine but the creamware cards (I tried it although I knew it wont).
(no offence intended)I don't want to discuss why 32bit is so much better than 64bit and all this 'cause it is leading to nowhere. 64bit isn't comming it acctually is here already.(no offence intended)

robi

Post by **garyb** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:12 am

what i hear over the grapevine is that the 64bit driver is not that big of a problem. when you see 64bit apps(besides sonar)being standard, there'll be a 64bit driver. afaik, windows 64bit is still basically a beta....

just passing on some very shaky gossip....

jc70417 · Post by **jc70417** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:50 am

Hi guys
I just purchased a scope project recently, and I am still exploring the whole product. I already did some reading on the forum about it before I did the purchase, and it does exactly from what everyone is claiming to be. The routing window system is such a great tool, and it is simple and useful. The virtual routing system is just incredible, and some of the effects are very nice as well. However, I am not done exploring things such as the sound creating part. It seems to be a lot more complicated than I expected, and I beleive it will take a lot of trying and learning to be able to bring out its full potential.

I am very satisfied with the purchase, and I somehow believe this scope platform could be one of the best sound system avaible in the market, even though I have never tried anything else before.

I already have part of the S&S package, now I am deciding if I should upgrade to version 4.5 with the M&M package before the offer expires. Since I will be mostly doing composing and recording, I probably need those plugins greatly.

The ability of the whole system is so powerful. It would allow you to do so many things, now I just can't help to be thinking to buy more creamware products. I wonder why it isn't as popular as I thought it would be. Even though this type of product only has consumers in speicalized area, I just can't think of any reasons that it is not a main stream product.

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Post by **irrelevance** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:07 am

I remember reading reviews for creamware pulsar cards over and over in computer music years back when all I had was a packard bell pc equipted with a yamaha sw1000xg ( another exellent dsp card, but not like scope), wishing I had the moolah to have all that power!!

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:19 pm

On 2006-01-11 06:50, jc70417 wrote:
... Even though this type of product only has consumers in speicalized area, I just can't think of any reasons that it is not a main stream product.

well, that is really easy to answer (imho)
no war*z, no cr*cks
each product is registered to exactly one card
it makes a product terribly unattractive for the 'mainstream' - I bet that 90% of the posters in Cubase (for example) forum do not have a license, and lots of students (as the identify themselves) must be real fortunate to be able to afford all the software they talk about...

cheers, Tom

medway · Post by **medway** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:41 am

UAD has the same type protection and no cracks.