Camel Audio Cameleon 5000 1.7 VSTi
Cameleon 5000 is an additive synth, featuring resynthesis and sound morphing, which excels at pads and evolving textures and comes with a library of over 800 presets. 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 rhythmic 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, for much higher quality and greater flexibility. No other additive synth is able to perform multi-sampling resynthesis. Cameleon's realistic and expressive sounds are unparalleled.
Cameleon also allows you to import image (BMP) files and turn them into sounds. This provides an extremely powerful way to design never-heard-before sounds. If you're ever stuck for inspiration, just try loading up any picture - perhaps a photo of your mum!
Once you've imported a sound you can edit it in ways which would be impossible with a conventional sampler. You have independent 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 Cameleon's interface has been designed with ease of use in mind; the 'Easy' page is just one example. On the Easy page you'll find simple but powerful controls to quickly shape the sound, including changing the balance of harmonics and noise, adding LFOs, or editing 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 sampled instruments.
Cameleon has a comprehensive set of effects, including a sweepable formant filter, distortion, compression, chorus, delay and reverb. Cameleon is supplied with over 800 presets, all arranged into categories (pads, leads, basses, and so on). If you're after instant inspiration, just select the type of sound you require (eg. rhythmics) and hit the random button to get an entirely new random rhythmic loop! Cameleon also comes with a well-written manual including tutorials and tips on getting the best out of it.
* 800 presets arranged in categories - pads, ambiences, leads, basses and more.
* Import and morph WAV/AIFF files.
* Import/export BMP images.
* 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'.
* Complete control over each harmonic.
* 128-band noise generator, 64 detunable partials.
* Sweepable formant filter, distortion, compression, chorus, delay, reverb.
Selected new features in v1.7:
* Improved noise generator for brighter, crisper sounds.
* Key tracking for noise generator and filter.
* Improved reverb.
* 200 extra presets included (over 800, 1000 extra from website).
* Improved editing (log scaling, new harmonic/noise profiles).
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