[sdiy] How much is a Chameleon ?

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Csaba Zvekan wrote:
> After looking at the video of the DIY Synth convention in the UK.I was 
> interested in the Chameleon . I was writing to the email for a price 
> request but nobody replied to me. How much is a Chameleon? And where 
> could it be purchased ?

It's dead... unfortunately.. But time moved on.

Have you taken a look at this one? http://www.openpandora.org/

It's not a rack-unit as the Chameleon. It looks just like a toy (well - 
it is) but It's incredibly capable. The built-in DSP is the gem. (e.g.  
the ARM and the Video-Core are nice for user-interface things).  I work 
on the same DSP  two years now, and you can do incredible things with 
them. I always have much more processing power than I need or the 
memory-bandwidth can sustain.

For 44100Khz 16 bit signals, you can do 4500 multiplies for each 
sample,  including dot-products, complex multiplies  and everything 
you'll need for even the most weird shit you want to do with your signals.


That thing will be much cheaper than the chameleon as well.

I don't know about the quality of the Audio In/Out, but one high-speed 
codec is built-in. The Chip has lots of GPIO-Pins, and you can hook up 
everything you want to them if you don't mind hacking around a bit. You 
can also use any USB audio device as well.


Worth a look for sure.. Just for the kicks of sitting there, watching 
the code and saying to yourself: "Hmkay - I got what I want - Now what 
do  I do with the other 90% of the cycles that I have on my hand...  ".

  Nils