I’ve long been a fan of Creamware’s Pulsar and Scope system – a DSP accellerated sound card with a modular and patchable approach. From synthesis to sampling, and mixing to effects, the promise of Creamware was a studio in a box, wiothout straining your PC.
But the main thing is that it “sounds” good!
Creamware was not without its politcal issues and now it is under a staff buyout under the new name of ???
Legendary sound designer John Bowen (Sequential Prophet, Korg Oasis, etc.) developed Solaris for the Creamware platform. It’s a power hungry beast, even for a DSP accelerated system.
Multi-way synthesis
He has his own hardware keyboard version coming out soon, based on a Scope DSP engine.
It won’t be cheap, at well over $4000, and it will probably still be quite hungry. But when John Bowen can put everything he cna think of in one place, we ca be assured it s going to sound pretty incredible. The Solaris for the Creamware platform already lives up to that concept, albeit with 1 or 2 notes at a time on a base 6 DSP board.
I’m excited to see what developemnts teh keyboard brings. Alread ysome new mdoules will filte rtehir way back to the Scope board version.