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      TB therefore was an important and maybe even necessary precursor to Audition,
      as we know it. The TB brand may be watered down now (and the original
      Pennsylvania-based company really doesn't exist anymore), but those products
      are part of the reason this forum is here for us to be talking...




Most histories (and my own experience) of soundcard history don't mention TB - they may have regarded themselves as important, but unfortunately Creative Labs got there (albeit probably not as well) first. And I'm pretty sure that Cool Edit owes nothing much to any other software - it was originally developed as a shareware tape recorder substitute, nothing more, nothing less. And there was nothing in it that hadn't either developed from existing hardware (oscilloscopes) or from things that Microsoft had stipulated about the way applications should be controlled - which isn't surprising considering that DJ was a Microsoft employee when he originally wrote it.

TB may have had a part to play in the story, but there's no way they were that pivotal in it. I'd have had AdLib as rather more central, in fact - that's where Creative managed to clone their early cards from. But if you wanted a more relevant company to look at in terms of hardware product development running in parallel with CE/CEP/Audition, then Echo, who have been developing professional product in this area for 25 years, would be a better choice, IMHO. And unlike TB, they haven't sold their souls to the Gaming Devil either...