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To: alsa-devel@jcu.cz, mlewis@burly.com
Subject: Re: good news for linux pro audio 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Oct 1998 17:09:43 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:04:50 -0300
From: Paul Barton-Davis <pbd@op.net>
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.981020170058.5300A-100000@chili.burly.com>you write
:
>Hi all.  Check out this response from Creamware about my inquiry of Linux
>support for the Pulsar
>http://www.creamware.com/Seiten/products/pulsar_intro.htm
>
>If you're interested in pro audio on Linux, let them know that they've got
>a market out here.

An additional note: I wrote to Creamware the day after they announced
the Pulsar. I had quite a back-and-forth with them about Linux support
(I actually said that I'd write it for them, if it could be GPL and
I'd get a card for free). They want to do it themselves, so please
don't bombard them with "we'll write your driver for you"
messages. But they were also very helpful in giving me some
information *even when* I made it clear that my next major project
after various WaveFront-related and MIDI stuff is done is a
large-scale synth emulation for Linux using Csound but without the
PHARC chip used on the Pulsar. So helpful that they even said "oh
yeah, actually, we ran the whole thing on Pentiums before the PHARC
was available and it worked pretty well." This, when I'm pointing out
that if I get this done, the market for their product under Linux
could be pretty small.

So, please be decent to Creamware. They are a good company even if
they don't do Open Source. And who knows, they may even do a Linux
driver too. Lets hope its for ALSA :)

--p



