Camel Audio releases Cameleon 5000 Additive Morphing Resynthesizer
| Thursday November 27, 2003. 09:29 AM | Virtual Instrument > Camel Audio |
UK-based software developers Camel Audio, whose 'CamelPhat' VST multi-effects plugin has won a cult following around the world, announced the arrival of their first full-blown software instrument. Cameleon 5000 is the creature's name, and it's an unusual and exotic hybrid! If you're looking for fresh and original sounds you should definitely take a closer look.
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 key features:
• Import and morph any WAV/AIFF file
• One-click 'morphing square', to warp between four sounds at a time
• Pick amplitude envelope, harmonics and noise from different sounds, for an
incredibly intuitive approach to sound design.
• Easy-to-use and powerful graphical editing of additive data.
• 500+ presets featuring completely fresh and original sounds, as well as a
comprehensive library of pre-analysed acoustic instruments and synthesisers.
• Parameter modulation by velocity, LFO, envelope or midi controller.
• Real-time, high quality 'stretch' for increased expression.
• High-quality portamento allows for realistic note bending
• Resonant filter and tube distortion (based on 'CamelPhat' design)
• Built-in chorus, delay and reverb effects
• 128 band noise generator
• 64 detuneable partials
• 128 band formant filter
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 euros), until the end of the year. A free demo version, together with sound examples and further information are also available.
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