[sdiy] Hardware convolution box?

[m brandenberg]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2017, Tom Wiltshire wrote:

>> http://www.chameleon.synth.net/english/chameleon/
>
> Yeah, that's the sort of thing we need, but the Chameleon is long dead, as I understand it.

It is but it's an excellent effort at creating both an open development
platform and an end-user facing system in the same box given the
constraints at the time (e.g. dsp vendors not being terribly generous
with tool chains).

> Paul Maddox was involved and did some synths for it so perhaps he knows more. Paul?

Chameleon II was considered but I suspect he learned a lot of lessons
from that project.  Like making a concrete instrument promises better
returns than an open platform.  Or combining development and end-user
features into a single package forces either compromises or over-
provisioning.

The Z-DSP seems like its evolutionary successor but if someone were
to try an all-in-one platform again, the chameleon might be a good
place to start for an architecture.

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Monty Brandenberg