[sdiy] How much is a Chameleon ?

[Csaba Zvekan]

The chameleon would have been a fun synth. Because it's 19" and ready  
go. But I am always interested in new designs. That's my problem ...   
the Qix project looks very promising though . Way too many cool  
projects out there and not enough time. :(

Csaba

On Jul 21, 2008, at 10:51 PM, np wrote:

> 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