Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Creamware Pulsar
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 16:43:16 EET
>hello, list,
>i'm new here, blablabla
>i have found in one of the archives some encouraging info about
>linux && pulsar, so just to make sure i've mailed info_AT_creamware_DOT_com
>the answer was clean and simple:
>"pulsar and linex will not happen"
>
>where was the previous positive info coming from ?
>imagination ?
no. i met with creamware in, lets see, i think it was 1999 at AES in
NYC. they were generally enthusiastic about linux at that point (i was
offering to write the drivers for free) and explained how it wasn't
hard to write new DSP code for the Pulsar/SCOPE systems. however, as i
have mentioned before, they were then extremely rude to me when some
guys from Be Inc. showed up, and my subsequent attempts to get the
necessary information from them fell flat. The guys I had spoken to at
AES just seemed to vanish into thin air (even though they were from
Germany). Their marketing side in the US was pathetic (constantly
cancelling promised dates for an in-studio demo), and in general, the
company seems to have an extremely wierd attitude when viewed through
anglo-american eyes.
Its a real shame, because the Pulsar/SCOPE deserved (and probably
still deserves) to be the absolute standard for audio on PCI computer
systems. Its a fabulous piece of engineering, immensely powerful and
endlessly flexible. Creamware, however, seem to have been unable to
market it effectively in the US, and have now apparently turned
against any future linux support.
--p
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