Cameleon 5000 is an additive synth, featuring resynthesis and sound morphing, which has an out of this world sound. At its heart is the morph square which allows you to morph between four different instruments at once. You can also use the morph timeline to create rythmic loops, evolving soundscapes and pads. Uniquely, Cameleon comes with a range of preset morph timelines, to make creating new sounds even easier. Scroll down for more information, reviews and demo tunes.
Cameleon can import sampled sounds (WAV/AIFF) into any of the four voice slots, or you can choose from the extensive range of built in voices. Cameleon has many unique features: it breaks sounds down into both a harmonic and noise component resulting in much higher quality, and greater flexibility. No other additive synth is able to perform multi-sampling resynthesis, which results in much more realistic and expressive sounds.
Cameleon also allows you to import image (BMP) files and turn them into sounds. This offers an extremely powerful way to design never heard before sounds, and if you're ever stuck for inspiration, just try loading up any picture - perhaps a picture of your mum!
Once you have imported a sound, you can then edit it in ways which are impossible with a conventional sampler. You have individual control over each of the harmonics - so you can for example boost all the odd harmonics, or even draw your own harmonic spectra.
Every part of Cameleons interface has been designed with ease of use in mind, and the 'easy' page is just one example. The easy page has simple but powerful controls to quickly shape the sound, including the ability to change the balance of harmonics and noise, add LFOs, or edit the amplitude envelope. You can also use the unique 'stretch' parameter to time stretch sounds in real time without the loss in quality associated with other instruments.
Cameleon has a comprehensive set of effects, including a sweepable formant filter, distortion, compression, chorus, delay and reverb. Cameleon is supplied with over 600 presets, all arranged into categories, such as pads, leads and basses. If you're after instant inspiration, just select the type of sound you require (eg. rythmics) and hit the random button to get an entirely new random rythmic loop, which has never been heard before.
Download the demo and open up a new world of sound.
Feature highlights
import and morph WAV/AIFF files
import any BMP image
multi-sampling resynthesis for more realistic and expressive instruments
one-click 'morphing square', to morph between four sounds at a time
separate control of amplitude envelope, harmonics and noise
morph timeline with presets, for fast creation of evolving patches
high quality 'stretch' for increased expression
complete control over each harmonic
128 band noise generator, 64 detunable partials
sweepable formant filter, distortion, compression, chorus, delay, reverb
600+ presets arranged in categories - pads, ambiences, leads, basses and more
System requirements
PC Pentium III 1GHz, 128 MB RAM, Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, VSTi/RTAS host
Mac G4 733 Mhz, 128 MB RAM, Mac OS 9/X, VSTi/Audio Units/RTAS host
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US$ 199.00, EU€ 126.00, GB£ 101.41, AU$ 214.87
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