Camel Audio have released Cameleon 5000 'Additive Morphing Resynthesizer', their first full-blown software instrument.
Described by its creator as an 'Additive Morphing Resynthesizer', it combines a powerful and flexible sound generation engine with some unique audio analysis algorithms, to produce an instrument that's not quite a synth and not quite a sampler, yet invites comparisons with both.
Like a conventional sampler, Cameleon 5000 can load any WAV or AIFF format sound. Unlike a conventional sampler, it then employs state-of-the-art technology to analyse that sound, and passes a detailed description of its essential characteristics to an advanced additive synthesis engine, which automatically constructs an imitation.
Sounds created in this fashion can be warped and manipulated in unimaginable ways -- from outlandish stretching and shrinking effects, to precise modifications of harmonic content, one partial at a time!
As many as four different sounds can be loaded simultaneously, and then dynamically 'morphed' in real-time. A piano becomes a vibraphone becomes a Moog becomes a human voice -- all in the course of a single note! The morphing capability can also be used to create new hybrid instruments; imagine a patch with the harmonics of a human voice, the percussive attack of an acoustic piano, and the amplitude envelope of a plucked string. It's a sound designer's dream!
Cameleon 5000 is supplied with an extensive library of more than 500 presets, and is available for both Windows and Mac OS, in VST and Audio Units plugin formats.
It can be purchased online from www.camelaudio.com at a special introductory price of $229 (199 EUR), until the end of the year. A free demo version, together with sound examples and further information are also available.
Described by its creator as an 'Additive Morphing Resynthesizer', it combines a powerful and flexible sound generation engine with some unique audio analysis algorithms, to produce an instrument that's not quite a synth and not quite a sampler, yet invites comparisons with both.
Like a conventional sampler, Cameleon 5000 can load any WAV or AIFF format sound. Unlike a conventional sampler, it then employs state-of-the-art technology to analyse that sound, and passes a detailed description of its essential characteristics to an advanced additive synthesis engine, which automatically constructs an imitation.
Sounds created in this fashion can be warped and manipulated in unimaginable ways -- from outlandish stretching and shrinking effects, to precise modifications of harmonic content, one partial at a time!
As many as four different sounds can be loaded simultaneously, and then dynamically 'morphed' in real-time. A piano becomes a vibraphone becomes a Moog becomes a human voice -- all in the course of a single note! The morphing capability can also be used to create new hybrid instruments; imagine a patch with the harmonics of a human voice, the percussive attack of an acoustic piano, and the amplitude envelope of a plucked string. It's a sound designer's dream!
Cameleon 5000 is supplied with an extensive library of more than 500 presets, and is available for both Windows and Mac OS, in VST and Audio Units plugin formats.
It can be purchased online from www.camelaudio.com at a special introductory price of $229 (199 EUR), until the end of the year. A free demo version, together with sound examples and further information are also available.
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