stardust wrote:good points hifi,
From my point of view and grossly simplified creamware died off 2 times for the 'studio in a box' idea.
soniccore is cashing out scope and it's ok
They now base their future on ASB and the amazing Solaris HW.
So it seems that selling HW boxes with good algorithms is more lucrative than selling the idea of a universal HW platform with various akgorithms.
I don`t know if that is correct at all?
From what I know cw died off two times.
(1 time) after noah project (hardware)
(2 time) after their asb development (hardware)
I think their original idea "studio-in-a-box or card" was well ahead the time back in 1998/1999. maybe even too early.
Now the cards are well more affordable and I think we all agree that the newer synth plug-ins and fx sound way better than the early ones.
That shows us that creamware has gained knowledge especially in the pro-audio area.
I think many pros have jumped over to work with PC based DAWs, so I think the times are even better for a "stuio-in-a-box-card" and Soniccore is the only manufaturer that has the knowledge to build and deliver a complete high quality solution in every erae, concering a good soundcard, highly flexible routing, synths that compete with hardware quality synths and also great fx.
More important in the last 9 years CW gained know-ledge as a synth-developer. We all know thats it is the know-how that companies keep so well.
Lexicon, TC, Access,... they all have gained their experience in their field...
CW has gained experience in allmost every area of pro audio tools.
I think a scopeII has an even much better chance of success than the previous cards.
There are more pc-based pro audio users available these days and even more hobby users. CW has gained reputation and knowledge and more important they have a brand and name for building "high quality synths".
chips have become more powerful and more cheap too.
UAD and Powercore show us that supported platforms are proper buissness models.
I think Scope has a future. Even the old cards.