[sdiy] Wakeman

[Neil Johnson]

> Imagine a synth that you could pick and choose what modules you wanted,
> connect them up how you wanted and then stuff it into a small Rack, have
> presets and so on...

Creamware have tried this with their "Noah":

http://www.creamware.de/en/Products/Noah/default.asp

but the market they are addressing are the VST users who want to farm out
their plugins to a dedicated hardware module and have it nicely integrated
into Cubase.

The VariOS is another version of this concept, and it is not a new one
(ProTools, PowerCore, other Creamware products).  I think the Chameleon
goes one better by giving you the tools to make your own software, not
just what the manufacturers deem worthy of their time (i.e. you'll end up
with what everyone else has, and nothing unique to you).

Now, if a FireWire interface was added to the Chameleon, it'd be a fun box
to add to a PC or Mac: external DSP _that_you_can_program_yourself_!!
And how long before one-man VST/AU hackers latch on to this and develop
VST/AU plugins with a nice graphical front end, using the Chameleon for
the horsepower??

Then again perhaps I'm going off the deep end :-)

Neil

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