Soundart Chameleon Mod

[HUROLURA]

Does any of the member own a Soundarts Chameleon unit ?

http://www.chameleon.synth.net/english/index.shtml

As the user panel protocol is available, maybe it would be possible to co-design a user control surface built using a Core32 board and the DSP-engine available in the Soundarts Chameleon.

[Spasm]

Hi HUROLURA,

I own a Chameleon! I'm sure it would be possible...

[HUROLURA]

Great !!!

I am waiting for the one I just bought and already have the Core32 board here.

I will think about it.

Do you have any favourite skins for which a hardware controller would be a smart addition ?

Did you start designing any personnal skin project ?

[SoftSynth]

I have a soundart chameleon as well and was also thinking the same ! its 1 reason why i signed up here, as it would make the possabilities endless as its a fully programable DSP & there's quite a lot of processing power there to play with when thinking of what skin & contoller and how many and what controls are needed to make a dream come true and using the idea of changeable control surfaces that just fit over the controls naming them for the different skins to use with the controller then as a hole it will make one hell of a studio tool to work with plus ideas like could we include parts of say SEQ 4 - pattern sequencer - programmable arpeggiator - sequence parameters changes like filters, FX, - and so on

i'd love be able to make my own midi controller for both my chameleon and nord G2 engine (as the nord G2 Rack has no controlls at all on it) as well as for all my studio software both DAW & VSTi's and it to be layed out the way i want it and to suit the i work as the only hardware midi control i have at min is my novation K-station Kb

so any help at all will be gratefully received

thanks for taking the time to read my post's

Paul

[HUROLURA]

Great news Paul

I think we have something to share about that topic.

I also have a G2 engine and ... a Novation X-station (similar layout as the K-station).

If we could focus on the Chameleon and the G2 engine (which is complicated enough).

Regarding the G2, the trick could be to rebuild something inspired from the G2 front panel.

Regarding the chameleon, I do not know much about the different skins as I just received the unit today !!!

I will probably focus on the MonoWave II and Faze-1 for a start ...

Do you both see something like this like an external controller or do you think about using the front panel protocol of the chamaleon to integrate the chameleon engine in a complete new box.

My first idea would be to use a set of two 240x64 or 240x128 mono graphical display with T6963C controller surrounded with encoder and keys.

The displays could provide value feedback with flexible labelling, then adding some extra pot for other control parameter and 16 step seq features from the MIDIBOX SEQ v4.

In such a setup we would have serveral CPU engine:

- the STM32 from the Core32 for handling midi control and stepqseq

- the Coldfire from the chamaleon for MIDI and file management

- the DSP from the chameleon as a sound engine

As an extra, I would leave a place for an ASX board to have the possibility to had an extra synth engine afterwards

Let's just brainstorm about that ...

[HUROLURA]

After some thoughts abouts it here are my preliminary conclusion:

Building up such a MIDI controller as an external device (rather than integrating it alltogether with the Chameleon hardware) would probably be the most easy and flexible.

The first rough idea would be to set up a dual screen device, each LCD being associated with 8 encoders and a few keys for step sequencer/arpegiator and modulation control (enveloppe generators, LFO ...).

Regarding the Modular G2 front panel emulation, the idea would be to replace the 4 2x16 chacaters LCD and their encoder + led ring by a set of 8 encoder + 1 display and then copy/paste this setup to get a dual access panel control.

Regarding the Chameleon, the use of a similar setup would probably be possible.

Any need for extra controller ?