>Well, theres the chameleon (sp?), but that isn;t a card, so wont lett you >accelerate just inner loops. Its very nice, and it's rack mountable, which is a big plus.
I just have to say that the Chameleon is a rack-hackers tool of choice and if any of you audio/Linux guys haven't had a chance to check it out yet, you must definitely do so.
It's so nice to have a Chameleon in a rack of gear, and suddenly find a need for '808' style drums - fine, load 'em up in the Chameleon and forget about the rack. Oh wait, no we don't need drums, we need another Delay for the Rack XL percussion - no problems, Chameleon will do that too. Got a guitarist coming over, give him access to the Chameleon for virtual amp simulation. The list, slowly but surely, of Chameleon applications goes on and on...
Chameleon is a 'plugins' mentality with hardware levels of quality expectations, and in that capacity it works very, very well. I can *always* make a PC running plugins crash - I have never, ever crashed the Chameleon, even with my coding efforts.
The Chameleon in my rack fits in just as an important role as the Virus Rack XL in the same rack, in my opinion... if you haven't checked it out, and you're an 'audio apps' hacker type of Linux individual with an interest in DSP, you'll find a lot to like about the Chameleon development system.
I know I like mine, anyway! A lot! (Well, hey, I also like my Access DSP development hardware too, but that's a different story and not for this forum...)
I only wish there were better Linux (or OSX) development tools for the Chameleon - I despise having to have a Windows partition around just for Chameleon hacking. Boo!!
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