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Creamware PCI cards (Luna, Pulsar, and SCOPE)

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MacTron:
Creamware PCI cards (Luna, Pulsar, and SCOPE) later have become: SCOPE home/project/professional:

https://web.archive.org/web/20020821074440/http://www.midiguy.com:80/shwrm/frmCrm.shtml

Protools5LEGuy:
Did the new ones had a new firmware? Are the SCOPE brand still OS9 comp.?

--- Quote ---These cards also support G3 and G4 Macs in OS9! While Creamware doesn't recommend using them in systems with CPU upgrades , they do work within limitations. For example, using Pulsar II (stereo analog I/O) you can have the big mixer, miniverb, stereo chorus and stereo delay mixing 6 channels of audio from Logic 6 on a Mac 9500/Umax S900 with G3/400 CPU upgrade. The system is slow but works.
--- End quote ---

They talk about version 4. What is working with OS9 drivers?

rvense:
I have a Pulsar 1, running fine in a Sawtooth G4 under 9.2.2 using the 4.0 software that can still be downloaded from Sonic Core.

The software needs a "key file" based on the card's hardware ID to install, but Sonic Core were nice enough to send me one when I e-mailed them. Who knows if that changes in the future, though, so make sure to store them in a safe place. The key files are just text files and should be cross platform, if you're buying second hand the previous owner might already have them.

The card itself is a nice way of getting 16 i/o via two ADAT pairs. It's very solid, but you need the Sonic Core platform app running in the background. This app gives you a little studio, where you can load and patch up various synths, mixers, and effects. I've mostly used it as a digital mixer, to connect all my hardware. It's decent enough, but the effects range in quality maybe from so-so (the reverb) to pretty good (distortions). The patching does make it a doddle to integrate hardware effects or even software running in an ASIO host, though. The synths I can't comment on but there's enough to keep you busy for a while, including a full digital modular.

MaximKorobov:
rvense, may I ask you to share OS 9 setup files?

rvense:
You mean the installers? I can try to find them. It looks like the downloads have been removed.

They key files are tied to a specific card serial number and you will have to request them from Sonic Core, more info here:

https://scope.zone/index.php?id=61&lg=en&d_2338=42

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