Thanks... that shed some light... ;) One more thing, here's an excerpt from ALSA website: http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Creative_Labs
"Creative actively preventing support due to no datasheets being released to ALSA developers." and here's another one on the same page: "Emu have supplied hardware sample and datasheets to the developer." It seemed to me that Creative & EMU have different attitude toward Open Source (Linux & ALSA in particular), and since EMU is a subsidiary of Creative, isn't it contradictive? :( On 4/1/08, Farrell McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Ming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a bit confused about those two brand names, are they related in > > any way? I've seen EMU products in creative-lab's website & in EMU's > > site, I've seen photos of their soundcard have a "creative lab" > > printed on it. > > Well, that involves some history... > > First of all, there was the Fairlight CMI, the first production > digital sampler keyboard synth. People like Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel > and such used it to great effect. Unfortunatelly, it cost a huge > amount of money, and weighed a great deal, which made it hard to tour > with. This created an opening for E-mu systems, which to that point > had been making modular synths, and designing the chips to be used in > them, and other synths. They became more popular than the Fairlight > cmi because of their ease of use/transport, and cheaper prices. > > Another company, Ensoniq also jumped into the same field with the > Mirage, and also built the own chips. It did to E-mu Systems the same > thing that E-mu systems did to Fairlight. In addition, one of the > highlights of Ensoniq's career was use of their sound chips in the > Apple IIGS, which gave it the full capabilities of some of the hottest > synths on the market at the time. > > Both companies made excellent sampler keyboards (I own an Ensoniq > EPS), as well as the chips to drive them. Creative had made lots of > money making sound cards, the Sound Blaster in particular, because it > had everything that not only average users of sound card wanted, but > many things that mucians wanted. Before that, MIDI cards and such were > super-expensive. the Sound Blaster was cheap, had a MIDI interface, > Digital recording and playback, and synthesis. So they bought up both > Ensoniq and E-mu Systems to get their hands on their respective music > chip technologies. Both were relatively cheap, as in the 90's keyboard > oriented music was pushed aside as Grunge & similar types of music > dominated the music scene. > > So, Creative owns both Ensoniq and E-mu systems, and their respective > chip technologies. Ensoniq doesn't exist as a separate company, > although E-mu systems is a subsidiary of Creative. > > I hope that helps... > > ttyl > Farrell > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
