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SouthPole is another great example of the kind of thing that only the Chameleon can bring about. This open source soundkin features four parallel filter bank lines with SP-Delay and Hot Saturation units. It makes a great solution for creating long, dynamic and constantly pseudo-random evolving organic pads, ensembles and strings. The possibility of very slow modulation provides the musician with a powerful way of making huge and endless sustained sounds and chords.
This project has been developed entirely by Aleix Riera, an independent Spanish Chameleon developer. Now that it has reached version 1.0, Aleix has kindly decided to publicly release the source code to allow other developers to continue and improve the Soundskin.
It is a fat and dirty filter bank based upon the simple filter found in the example code bundled free with the Chameleon Software Development Kit.
SouthPole ;-
Developer resource
If you want to download the source code with annotations for South Pole, go to the next link to download it here: Version 1.0
Aleix's website is here - www.fjarre.com/users/aleix/southpole
- Filter Bank: 3 types of 24 dB filter (Low-Pass, Band-Pass and High-Pass) in parallel mode with each line out of four lines available. A total of 12 stereo auto-oscillating Moog-way conceived filters.
- Low Frequency Oscillator Bank: 3 LFO's with their 3 offset adders in each line connected directly to the Filter Controls (cut off, resonance and panning). A total of twelve 0-to-40 Hz logarithmic LFO's working in parallel mode. All parameters are easily and directly controllable with the knobs by the user (amplitude, frequency and offset).
- SP-Delay Unit: A 4-channel mixer followed by a logarithmic stereo Delay (1,1 milliseconds up to 11 seconds) gives the complete control of the 4 send levels, including a Random control of the echo times.
- Hot-Saturation Unit: A stereo Hot-Saturation Unit will slowly burn the sound. It works directly on the Filter Bank (after them, in lines 1 & 2, and before in 3 & 4). Great for emulating early electronic organs and really useful for those agressive drums and percussion.
- Global Mixer: A 3-channel stereo mixer allows you to separate the original sound, the line-processed sound, and the delayed sound to create the perfect balance for the final mix.
- Factory and User Presets Bank: A total of 256 flash memory slots with 256 Factory and User Presets. The 128 Factory Presets and the 128 totally editable User Presets Bank give you rapid access to your own SouthPole configurations and patches.
The following sound samples demonstrate some of the capabilities of South Pole. These clips were recorded straight from the output of the Chameleon into a computer for compressing to mp3 format.
- Drum Loop 1 - Unprocessed (379Kb, .MP3)
- Drum Loop 1 - Variation 1 (391Kb, .MP3)
- Drum Loop 1 - Variation 2 (398Kb, .MP3)
- Drum Loop 1 - Variation 3 (381Kb, .MP3)
- Drum Loop 1 - Variation 4 (378Kb, .MP3)
- Drum Loop 1 - Variation 5 (379Kb, .MP3)
- Drum Loop 2 - Unprocessed (376Kb, .MP3)
- Drum Loop 2 - Variation 1 (377Kb, .MP3)
- Drum Loop 2 - Variation 2 (377Kb, .MP3)
- Synth Strings - Unprocessed (185Kb, .MP3)
- Synth Strings - 104:Werobots (209Kb, .MP3)
- Synth Strings - 115:Oxygene (365Kb, .MP3)
- Synth Strings - 12:Synchrotron (189Kb, .MP3)
- Synth Strings - 16:Sunrays (373Kb, .MP3)
- Synth Strings - 21:Barniesdream (429Kb, .MP3)
- Synth Strings - 55:Oldturbine (209Kb, .MP3)
You can listen to this long song where Aleix processes the song "Pink Rain" through several presets of South Pole. "Pink Rain" (or "Twilight Zone part. 3") was the first composition of Aleix included on the electronic music compilation album, 'Exoniqe' (Lightnet Music). It is often heard on the Milenio3 spanish radio station.
