Re: Is Ensoniq still around?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

I know they did.  That was not my question.

Creative bought both Ensoniq and E-mu.  But I think the
last time Creative used Ensoniq technology was in the
AudioPCI card (which I have in a couple of my computers).

My question is has Ensoniq survived as a subsidiary of
Creative or is the technology all E-mu now?

Similar to how VIA bought both Cyrix and Centaur and
let the two teams battle it out until all that's left is the
Centaur team now.

Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote:

>Creative bought them out
>Do a web search
>
>Roy
>
>Supertimer wrote:
>> Does anyone know the current status of Ensoniq,
>> the company that designed the Apple IIGS sound chip?
>> 
>> The company had a very proud heritage starting with
>> a team of engineers from Commodore to marketting
>> synths and samplers for professional musicians to
>> the IIGS sound chip (which, talk about nostalgia,
>> Ensoniq devoted a web page for back when it was
>> an independent company).
>> 
>> Well, a couple of years ago, Ensoniq was bought
>> by Creative.  Creative also bought E-mu, which was
>> another big name in the music circle.  For a time,
>> sound cards based on both technologies coexisted,
>> much the same as VIA bought both Cyrix (which
>> made the Cyrix M2 chips) and Centaur (which
>> made the Winchip) and let them coexist until one
>> emerge dominant.  For VIA, that was the Centaur
>> team.  The Cyrix III seen today (or C3) is not a
>> real Cyrix.  It is the next stage of the Winchip
>> design.
>> 
>> Is Ensoniq finally lost and gone like Cyrix?  I still
>> have a couple of Creative Ensoniq Audio PCI
>> cards that I love because they function just like
>> the IIGS sound system.  Well, ok, of course it
>> supports a greater bit depth and much larger
>> wavetables than the IIGS chip but what I mean
>> is that the overall fucntion is similar.  The card
>> has four different wavetable files that can be
>> loaded from the CD-ROM which is exactly what
>> I as a IIGS user of old am familiar with.
>> 
>> I believe, though, that ever since the Audigy
>> series (presumably based on E-mu technology)
>> Ensoniq is all but dead.