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</head><body><p>Ah , the Chameleon, a blast from the past... <br></p><p>As another aside there's this , in Euro and Pedal. <a href="http://www.rebeltech.org/products/owl-modular/">http://www.rebeltech.org/products/owl-modular/</a><br></p><p>regards<br></p><p><br></p><p>Paul<br></p><p><br></p><blockquote type="cite"><p>On 13 February 2017 at 18:56 m brandenberg <mcbinc@panix.com> wrote:<br><br><br>On Mon, 13 Feb 2017, Tom Wiltshire wrote:<br><br>>> http://www.chameleon.synth.net/english/chameleon/</p><blockquote type="cite"><p>Yeah, that's the sort of thing we need, but the Chameleon is long dead, as I understand it.</p></blockquote><p>It is but it's an excellent effort at creating both an open development<br>platform and an end-user facing system in the same box given the<br>constraints at the time (e.g. dsp vendors not being terribly generous<br>with tool chains).<br></p><blockquote type="cite"><p>Paul Maddox was involved and did some synths for it so perhaps he knows more. Paul?</p></blockquote><p>Chameleon II was considered but I suspect he learned a lot of lessons<br>from that project. Like making a concrete instrument promises better<br>returns than an open platform. Or combining development and end-user<br>features into a single package forces either compromises or over-<br>provisioning.<br><br>The Z-DSP seems like its evolutionary successor but if someone were<br>to try an all-in-one platform again, the chameleon might be a good<br>place to start for an architecture.<br><br>--<br>Monty Brandenberg<br>_______________________________________________<br>Synth-diy mailing list<br>Synth-diy@synth-diy.org<br>http://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</p></blockquote></body></html>