MESSE04: Cameleon - A Synth of Many Colours

Their latest project, the Cameleon 5000 is a virtual synthesizer with a difference, in that it features full resynthesis capabilities that will work on single or multisampled waveforms. According to the blurb: " Cameleon 5000 blurs the boundaries between sampling and synthesis in unprecedented ways"

From what I saw, that's not a bogus claim, and the glowing reviews that Cameleon 5000 has received bear that out.

What Cameleon is capable of means that it is a unique synth, waveforms can be loaded from WAV or AIFF files with the root note either taken from embedded data or extrapolated from the harmonic content or even bit map images - this feature is interesting as the application analizes the image and creates a waveform with some interesting results. With some of the images one can download these days, expect some surprising sounds.

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