Wearing my CDP hat, I  emailed the Creamware support line yesterday
(Wednesday) asking about the SCOPE system. Today (Thursday) I got a long
reply, from the director himself. I have excluded those bits which are
particluar to CDP, but I thought readers of this list might be very
interested in what he has to say about Csound, and the SCOPE system
generally. I find the suggestion at the end, for a sort of wrapper compiler
between Csound and SCOPE especially interesting (a good use for the Csound
parser?). I/CDP are most unlikely to pursue this idea - we have our own
stuff to deal with, to say nothing of the ADI card - but there seems to be a
tangible degree of encouragement here for anyone seriously interested to
'have a go':

Richard Dobson


highlights of text from Frank Hund:


We at CreamWare wish to cooperate with companies and organizations
...  to take care of some progress in the field or realtime synthesis.

The SCOPE software, algorithms, surfaces are all strictly modular and
can be used to create new whatsoevers - very fast and very effective.

SCOPE is a platform, you're welcome to develop whatever comes to your
mind. ... you can start from any point within SCOPE and quickly work your
way towards your goal. You can easily create fancy and functional user
interfaces (surface windows) and even write your own DSP modules within
SCOPE - we have an inline SHARC assembler included in our java-like script
language which you can use to create your own applications.

SCOPE was not build on Extended Csound and is not at all compatible with
existing Csound apps. One could make is Csound, of course - the SCOPE
hardware and drivers are not limited to any specific sound creation
structures.
United with the graphics engine and the routing editor, this should be some
pretty amazing new aggregate form of Csound.
...
Sure, multiple audio channels are available with I/O capabilities of up to
60 channels in 24 bits. It should not be difficult to implement the MME
driver as 4ch format (8ch...) instead of 2x2 (4x2).

One could add full Csound support to the SCOPE environment or just start
with a kind of compiler, that transforms Csound apps into SCOPE structures,
using compatible atom modules.

Frank Hund
President CreamWare GmbH