MOTM

On Sep 30, 2003, at 10:10 AM, Scott Juskiw wrote:

> At 3:58 PM +0000 2003/09/30, Mike Marsh wrote:
>> The learning is pretty huge, but that's more than half the fun!
>> There are many levels to the beast and you can make new, creative
>> stuff at any of them.  From tweaking the existing 1,000 sounds to
>> programming your own primitives in DSP assembly and all points in
>> between.
>
> I'm wondering how the Kyma compares to something like the Soundart
> Chameleon in terms of developing custom applications with DSP. I was
> thinking about getting a Chameleon, but if the Kyma can do all that
> and more, hmmmmm......

Different beasts. The Kyma is more comparable to an Eventide Orville 
than a Chameleon. The Soundart box is great to play with if you enjoy 
DSP programming. There are no fancy GUI tools, no drag and drop wires 
to connect up. The DSP on the Soundart box is rather wimpy (56303) by 
todays standards, also, you can't pull anything higher than 24/48. The 
Kyma on the other hand can basically grow to fit the size of your 
pocket book. On the other hand, the cost of the Chameleon is about what 
you'll pay in sales tax for a Kyma setup...

--mikes