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Published on 12/18/11 at 04:10Launched in 2002 and produced until the Chameleon has a name chosen because it illustrates well trs capacity has become more machines Different. It's actually a 1U Local Accommodations that a couple of processors and can be either a sound or gnrateur a processing tool (because of its prsence couple input Stereo e) and torque MIDI In / Out.
Down on the same DSP as the MOTOROLA Access Virus A, Waldorf MicroWave Clavia MicroModular or II that is found also in multiple copies in the Waldorf Q and other Novation Supernova, its main intrt is its versatility.
According to the "skin" (understand the program loaded on the machine) the chameleon can be a VA synth polyphonic (Australis, Entity, Phoenix) a monophonic digital (Monowave II), a Casio CZ rsurgence of (Faze- 1), a sound gnrateur the groovebox Rebirth (Fahrenheit) or an effects processor (South Pole, Infiltrator, amp-o-matic, chromasonic, roomverb M1).
In addition to providing an SDK silent, allowing third parties to build new soundskins (for cons must connatre motorola DSP assembler, forcment not for everyone ...)
UTILIZATION
Usage is gnralement fairly standard in terms of navigation via a small notches 2 lines of 12 characters, touches and a great encoder.
T have the VSTi MIDI dvelopp soundskins for 2 of which can be a possibility of prcise ide more and makes easier the ACCS. Now, adding an external MIDI Hardware Controller style BCR 2000, or Bitstream 3x is probably wise rvle ra.
For me the skins I use most are:
- Australia is a kind of polyphonic access virus 16 notes and 8 multitimbral parts with its own identity somewhere between the sound viruses access the KS series lead innovation and north clavia.Il VA provides a structure with two classical oscillators with forty waveform with a sub oscillator, a gnrateur noise and a ring modulator, rsons 2 filters, 2 ADSR envelopes and 2 LFO modulation matrix over a fairly complte.
- Fahrenheit on a kind of rebirth proposing the formulation of bassline 2, two BAR and a mixer and effects without inserting the game squenceur.
- The Monowave II, carrying the DSP synthtiseur hybrid (numriques oscillators, analog filter type minimoog) Monowave Paul Maddox 3 oscillators with 256 waveforms, a 24dB filter, 2 LFO with a palette provided trs waveform and ADSR 3 (the latter is available as open source under GPL for lovers express)
The aid of a surface rich in MIDI CONTRL lments of CONTRL makes programming much easier sound ...
SOUNDS
For fans of VA that can pursue sound diffrent of Virus and Nord Lead others, there may be something the dig ...
For my part, the difficulty of choosing between the silent sounskins, reloading as a bit long. So I solved the problem with the acquisition of two copies.
OVERALL OPINION
VA is a small friendly versatile in concept a bit in the vein of Roland varios or Noah Ex CreamWare, all machines that have had trouble breaking into the market because of the likely difficulty identifying what they taient.
INTERESTED least I got the NOAH Ex nanmoins a sound point of view but more open as long as one has wanted to get into the DIY on a DSP now somewhat obsolete you it is true.
Production was in 2007 shall adopt APRS manufacturing some 500 copies
Announced for 2005, the second generation (the chameleon MkII) was never born and that's a shame because it proposed to address many of the shortcomings of the first model (DSP more Powerful, 4 audio inputs, 6 analog audio outputs plus 1 I / O SPDIF, the possibility of having a high between impdance between one of the prsence d a compact flash slot for soundskin and preset, the transition to the USB PC connection).
The first vritable synthtiseur hardware that has paved the way of open source for industrial MODEL.
Down on the same DSP as the MOTOROLA Access Virus A, Waldorf MicroWave Clavia MicroModular or II that is found also in multiple copies in the Waldorf Q and other Novation Supernova, its main intrt is its versatility.
According to the "skin" (understand the program loaded on the machine) the chameleon can be a VA synth polyphonic (Australis, Entity, Phoenix) a monophonic digital (Monowave II), a Casio CZ rsurgence of (Faze- 1), a sound gnrateur the groovebox Rebirth (Fahrenheit) or an effects processor (South Pole, Infiltrator, amp-o-matic, chromasonic, roomverb M1).
In addition to providing an SDK silent, allowing third parties to build new soundskins (for cons must connatre motorola DSP assembler, forcment not for everyone ...)
UTILIZATION
Usage is gnralement fairly standard in terms of navigation via a small notches 2 lines of 12 characters, touches and a great encoder.
T have the VSTi MIDI dvelopp soundskins for 2 of which can be a possibility of prcise ide more and makes easier the ACCS. Now, adding an external MIDI Hardware Controller style BCR 2000, or Bitstream 3x is probably wise rvle ra.
For me the skins I use most are:
- Australia is a kind of polyphonic access virus 16 notes and 8 multitimbral parts with its own identity somewhere between the sound viruses access the KS series lead innovation and north clavia.Il VA provides a structure with two classical oscillators with forty waveform with a sub oscillator, a gnrateur noise and a ring modulator, rsons 2 filters, 2 ADSR envelopes and 2 LFO modulation matrix over a fairly complte.
- Fahrenheit on a kind of rebirth proposing the formulation of bassline 2, two BAR and a mixer and effects without inserting the game squenceur.
- The Monowave II, carrying the DSP synthtiseur hybrid (numriques oscillators, analog filter type minimoog) Monowave Paul Maddox 3 oscillators with 256 waveforms, a 24dB filter, 2 LFO with a palette provided trs waveform and ADSR 3 (the latter is available as open source under GPL for lovers express)
The aid of a surface rich in MIDI CONTRL lments of CONTRL makes programming much easier sound ...
SOUNDS
For fans of VA that can pursue sound diffrent of Virus and Nord Lead others, there may be something the dig ...
For my part, the difficulty of choosing between the silent sounskins, reloading as a bit long. So I solved the problem with the acquisition of two copies.
OVERALL OPINION
VA is a small friendly versatile in concept a bit in the vein of Roland varios or Noah Ex CreamWare, all machines that have had trouble breaking into the market because of the likely difficulty identifying what they taient.
INTERESTED least I got the NOAH Ex nanmoins a sound point of view but more open as long as one has wanted to get into the DIY on a DSP now somewhat obsolete you it is true.
Production was in 2007 shall adopt APRS manufacturing some 500 copies
Announced for 2005, the second generation (the chameleon MkII) was never born and that's a shame because it proposed to address many of the shortcomings of the first model (DSP more Powerful, 4 audio inputs, 6 analog audio outputs plus 1 I / O SPDIF, the possibility of having a high between impdance between one of the prsence d a compact flash slot for soundskin and preset, the transition to the USB PC connection).
The first vritable synthtiseur hardware that has paved the way of open source for industrial MODEL.