braincell wrote:...Everything Sonic Core is doing is based on what Creamware did many years ago. The x-ite is better hardware using exactly the same software they had before. It's easier to make things faster and perform better because it's something you can measure and you can always buy faster more powerful chips etc.. It's the creative aspect of software design that is more difficult. It's pretty easy to copy hardware. Making original software is more difficult because it takes imagination, it takes creativity.
OK, let me ask you then - would it have been better to bring out new hardware with a completely new software system? Keep in mind, this would have meant no backwards compatibility to the Scope stuff.
This was the discussion some time ago, when we first started in on thinking about the Solaris and other ideas, and did not have any option to access the Creamware stuff. When the whole deal happened and Sonic Core was formed, things took a different path in the discussions, obviously, because now they had a user base to support and consider - bringing out new hardware that would be incompatible with the older SFP software would really have abandoned the group here, and I think would have generated a lot of hostility.
Also, I might add, the code for XITE is not exactly the same - most all of the Scope library has been re-written to optimise it for the new DSPs, although the system will look and operate basically the same.
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