A 24bit DSP Hardware Revolution: The Chameleon

seraph

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What is the Chameleon?
The Chameleon is the first of its kind. It is a totally flexible piece of audio hardware that can be switched to being a totally different DSP tool. Users can re-skin it from a fast-growing range of tools. What's more, it's architecture is open for anyone to design new skins. The current version is a 1U rackmountable unit. It has stereo inputs and outputs, MIDI connectivity, buttons and knobs on the front panel, and two industry standard DSP chips as found in many of the top synths and FX on the market. So, in istelf it is effectively a blank box, but as a result it can do anything. It just needs a skin loaded and it comes to life.

egw · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:04 pm Post subject:

I like the design of this - very elegant.

Anig Browl · Joined: May 05, 2004 Posts: 20 Location: San Francisco

It's been on the market for a year actually, and now they are halting production in favour of a new more saleable model. I used to work for them, doing some marketing and sound programming. Nice beast, although regrettably the i/o seems to be fried on mine.

mosc · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:16 am Post subject:

This kind of thing would be very good if there were a lot of open source software available for it. One could conceive of a Nord Modular type system that runs on this box, for example.

I just checked the web site a bit. Too bad it only has two ins and outs. ..

seraph · Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2004 12:47 am Post subject: