[sdiy] Axcel Resynthesizer (on eBay again...)

[Neil Johnson]

> Probably not as complex as you might imagine.

Also, technology has moved on somewhat since the Axcel design.  For
example, generating 128 partials in realtime would be easily done on a
3GHz Pentium-class processor these days.

You might be interested in the Camel 5000 being developed here in the UK:

	http://www.camelaudio.com/productsCA5000.htm

	"CAMEL 5000 Additive Morphing Resynthesizer"

For me, the interesting aspect of the Axcel is the Grapher user interface.
It is a predecessor to a touch screen, where each LED/touch nodule is one
pixel in the (rather crude) display.  Of course, a 21" LCD monitor and
full-size touch screen would be a tad expensive even today, but would be
lightyears ahead of the Axcel's display.

Neil

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