Why no DP/4 emulation?

[Seikilos]

Shame that Ensoniq was lost, IMHO it was their AudioPCI card that caused the buyout

You are correct, the music division had very low sales and had not been profitable for a while, multimedia sales were keeping the company afloat (barely) and Ensoniq's PCI patent (used in AudioPCI) forced Creative to spend big $$ for Ensoniq. If Ensoniq had simply cut the music division, it could probably have sold to Intel or Microsoft for even more $$ (since sound was headed to the chipset/motherboard anyway), but that would have been a hard thing to do for the remaining founders.

[Scrubbing Monkeys]

Ahhhhh. The DP4 Was my main and nearly only modulation fx in a 24 track studio that was using three Tascam DA 88 tape machines synced together. I loved that unit.

[FrettedSynth]

Shame that Ensoniq was lost, IMHO it was their AudioPCI card that caused the buyout

You are correct, the music division had very low sales and had not been profitable for a while, multimedia sales were keeping the company afloat (barely) and Ensoniq's PCI patent (used in AudioPCI) forced Creative to spend big $$ for Ensoniq. If Ensoniq had simply cut the music division, it could probably have sold to Intel or Microsoft for even more $$ (since sound was headed to the chipset/motherboard anyway), but that would have been a hard thing to do for the remaining founders.

Creative was the largest seller of sound cards in off the shelf computers. From what I heard that changed pretty quick after Ensoniq introduced the AudioPCI card. Had a few of them way back, could get a digital out by placing a mono plug into the stereo audio out jack. Pretty amazing for that time and the cost of the soundcard. My brother designed that output.

[zerocrossing]

Here’s what I don’t get. There’s money on the table. Not a lot, but some. Also, marketing benefits. That’s maybe worth more. Hand over all the algorithms and schematics to someone like Arturia or Softube and put a stipulation in the contract for some cut of the profit and a spot for Creative on the logo. “ENSONIQ powered by Creative Labs.” For next to no effort, you make some money and get some exposure.

[sin night]

I agree, Creative Labs have some good IP and brands (they also own EMU).

Unfortunately they seem focused on consumer products nowadays... if they are not interested in making professional music tools, they could/should at least license some of that IP to a reputable pro-audio brand and milk some extra money (and exposure)...

[pgwalsh]

The DP4 could possibly run on an emulator.

They've created an emulation for the ES5510 chip: https://www.mamedev.org/

and here's the git hub source for the emulation of the ES5510 chip used in the DP4: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/tree/ma ... cpu/es5510

Here's the site for Jon Dattorro, who wrote many of the algorithms. https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~dattorro/DP4.htm

There are ROM files on the internet for the the DP4. This could be done similar to OSIRIUS.

[michat]

I guess it is finally there. Didn't test it yet, though.

https://www.temeculadsp.com/deep4