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Has anyone else checked out the upcoming Scope system from Creamware and theorized about its potential for realtime looping applications? For those who don't know, it's basically a souped-up DSP card that goes in your PC or Mac, with 2.7 gigaflops of power (or more with add-on cards), which does synthesis, sampling, effects, mixing, etc., all realtime, with modular units you can connect however you want, building your own synths and effects and multi-I/O studio setups. At least from the hype I've read thus far, it seems like it would be possible to create your own customized realtime computer-based looper with this system. According to Creamware, it's a completely modular system - you just place modules on a virtual workspace and connect however you want, and you can even go into the individual modules and tweak them to your specific needs. Almost all parameters are controllable in realtime via MIDI. You can build your own customized user interface for the devices you create. It's multi-I/O, so you can have a number of busses, aux sends, and whatnot connecting your devices, both virtual (in Scope) and physical (via a multi-I/O interface). I could be wrong about the looping potential, but the buzzwords that caught my attention were "realtime", "control", "modular", "customized", etc.. Anyone have any opinions about this, or know of any other sources of information on Scope besides the Creamware site (http://www.creamware.com/Seiten/scope/clframe_scope_scope0.htm) and the report at Harmony Central (http://www.harmony-central.com/Newp/MusikMesse98/Creamware/SCOPE.html)? James