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With over a million units sold in just under 4 months, SBLive! is arguably one of the finest soundcard available in the market today. In this rare and exclusive interview with ALive!, Dave Rossum, the driving force behind the card, shares his thoughts and addresses the concerns of SBLive! owners everywhere.....
Some questions were contributed by the folks at 3DSoundSurge and HammerSound.
Breaking the Ice...
ALive!: First, a bit on yourself. As the Chief Scientist of Creative Labs, what's your main responsibility?
Dave Rossum: I primarily look after the "intellectual property," particularly as it relates to audio. This means doing lots of different things - some invention, some prodding of the other inventors, looking at acquisition candidates, evaluating technologies and planning technological strategy. I get to deal with the fun stuff, and not to worry too much about the issues of management, budgeting, etc. I also get to do interviews and present papers.
In your opinion, which technological innovation gives you the greatest sense of satisfaction in your years at Creative Labs?
Since E-mu was acquired, I think the implementation of the EMU10K1 processor was the most satisfying project so far for me. Maybe that’s because it was the last thing in which I was actually doing design work. However, I expect some of the things currently behind the scenes (no, I can’t give clues) may eclipse this soon.
We have heard about the Creative-E-mu Tech Center every now and then. So what are some of the interesting research that the Center conducts?
One of the difficulties with being Chief Scientist is that I can’t talk about the majority of the stuff I’m involved with! But some of the Tech Center projects that have been publicly released are SoundFont® technology, the EMU8000 and the EMU10K1 processors, CQM, EAX™, and much of the SB Live! and Live!Ware programs. We have groups working in VLSI, Advanced Music Synthesis and 3D Audio.
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