Well, being a creamware user myself, I have to say that it is seriously impressive hardware. I would be interested in joining a "Linux Pulsar" group. I can give a little finance and programming cycles :)
-Lea. On Wednesday 18 June 2003 15:53, happyguy wrote: > So based on the feedback from the LAD community I'm guessing a Pulsar > driver isn't forthcoming from Creamware. Too bad, nice hardware with a > fairly well developed platform. Is there anyone with contacts inside > Creamware that might be able to put me in touch with the right person to > get something like this moving. Their support group went as far as to > pretend they've never heard of Linux upon contacting them... but my > guess is that not everyone may be singing the same tune. I'd like to > see if > > A) creamware will release some specs for an ambitious individual such as > myself to write a linux/alsa driver > > or B) creamware will sell their specs for OSS/GPL development (and > hopefully there is enough interest out there to promptly donate some > paypal funds to afford such a measure :) ) > > Is this avenue worth pursuing further, or should I look beyond a $1700 > PwPulsar and find another DSP/DAW dev platform? Anyone have any leads? > I ran into TCelectronics Powercore Firewire which seems decently > assembled, but I do not know of any Linux efforts being made on this... > obviously it is not supported directly. Of course everyone knows RME > Hammerfall, but alas no DSP power :(. Still, I would like to give a > little return investment to all those DSP apps the community has already > written for Creamware's SCOPE platform... For those familiar with SCOPE, > know of any other integrated platforms like this that have a good > backing of community support? > > Can we live without a good DSP & 24x96? Not me. > > -s