I will remember Creative as the company that purchased two of the greatest music synthesizer companies, E-Mu and Ensoniq, merged them, and then destroyed them.
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#22Practically every computer geek/nerd of the 80s and 90s has come across and used a Sound Blaster at some point. Part of our childhoods, as the saying goes.
RIP, not many get to affect quite as many people as Creative did across entire generations.
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#23Now maybe Creative can give EMU and Ensoniq trademarks back to their creators.
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#24RIP. I spent countless hours talking to that damn parrot.
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#25I will remember Creative as the company that purchased two of the greatest music synthesizer companies, E-Mu and Ensoniq, merged them, and then destroyed them.
Rossum is still doing synths and recently re-issued a SP2100, at $6000 a pop though... Hopefully he can get his brand name back.
I think it was Ensoniq who were ex Commodore employees responsible for the Sid chip on the C64.
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#26RIP. Like many, was a sound blaster buyer in 90s and still have 5.1 sound system :)
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#27Known in the US as Creative Labs. Mercy, those Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live PCI cards (CT4830) were like the default go-to option for everyone for years & years. Every system build got one! They were reasonably priced & considered pretty decent! Motherboards had pretty bad onboard sound if any at all, up until an Nvidia chipset started sometimes having some good implementations (the nForce chipset with integrated…
Creative were also pushing Environmental Audio eXtensions (EAX) on to many games and there were several versions of the techonology requiring upgrades of the soundcard until it was killed off by the release of Windows Vista when Microsoft discontinued DirectSound3D.
I believe Creative would be a very different company if EAX were still around. Their business was killed overnight.
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#28Funny that my Dad and I bought the Creative Game blaster from a Singapore market (likely Sim Lim) and bought that back to South Africa. It was a revelation to play Sierra games sound through it.
Decades later I now live in Singapore. =)
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#29I remember changing from my motherboard's onboard sound to a Creative Audigy 4. Wow. It was like going from 200/200 vision to 20/20 overnight. The clarity was amazing.
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#30"Creative Technology"? I thought it was called Creative Labs?