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I have no willpower, I am weak... resistance is.... don't need more toys... oh hell...

does anyone here have any experience with Cameleon? can I live without this?

Thanks in advance

have no willpower, I am weak... resistance is.... don't need more toys... oh hell...
does anyone here have any experience with Cameleon? can I live without this?

Julie. Julie. Julie.
You're a real instigator, aren't you? Everytime the gear lust seems to show any remote sign of abating, there you are to stir it up again. Besides, you're reading my mind, and its freaking me out.

I read the email and thought, "Hmm ... there's something that I know very little about. Maybe I should buy it." Let's get it over with and collaborate on a project. All I can promise you for sure is that our respective studios will soon be housed in one large refrigerator box, but it'll really have a lot of cool stuff crammed in it. <g>

Did the Cakewalk email give a special URL to get the discounts on Camel Audio products?

Thanks,
D

Excellent. Thank you.

My 2 cents:
First, I have both the Cameleon 5000 and the 2 new effects offered by Camel audio. All of their products are pretty fun and easy to work with. They also offer good technical support. (plus, there are tons of free patches around for the Cameleon!!)

Second, Cakewalk prices are rarely lower than the actual price of the software when purchased directly from the company. (it seems Cakewalk specials overlap amazingly with specials offered by the software company directly) If you are considering buying a product like Cameleon 5000, I would buy it from Camel Audio. In the past, the originating company has offered much better support than Cakewalk. For example, I purchased (at least) two products through Cake. The original PentagonI from RGC and the BBE Sonic Maximizer. Everytime there was an announcement that PentagonI had upgraded (from reading KvR or surfing to the rgc website) I heard nothing from Cakewalk. E-mails to tech support about the upgrades went unanswered. Rene at rgc was kind enough to give me upgrades because I kept the original e-mail confirming my purchase from Cakewalk.... but to this day, I don't think I am on his e-mail notification list. Recently, I had a bit of trouble installing the BBE (after a computer crash)..... took several e-mails to get help from Cake (although in truth they did eventually respond ) and I was ignored by BBC as I did not buy the product from them (again, I sent them the e-mail copy of my purchase from Cakewalk, but they ignored it). Soooo, if you are going to buy a product, want fast tech support and updates.... buy it from the company that wrote it!

The above is my own experience. I am sure others have different tales to tell!

Take Care

i have purposely stayed away from Camel products. One has to draw the line somewhere. I have so much already to try and fit in.
for one thing Camel Audio has periodic 'sales' and 'offers' that drop the price to $149, so there isn't the one time offer rush that pushes the impulse.
it's an excellent product to be sure, but in that area I keep VirSyn Cube will build some momentum again, but it really looks as if VirSyn is one of those gifted one developer organizations that has trouble on the business side.

and speaking of which I'm saving myself for Urs' Zebra for PC. Urs work is really outstanding and this will happen some time this year.

here's the latest Friday installment from Urs KVR Zebra blog

Ok... the work on the oscillators is pretty much finished!

Here's an example... this tune is made with 3 raw prototypes of Z2 that features 1 Oscillator, 2 Envelopes and 1 LFO. NO FILTERS! NO PHYSICAL MODELING!

http://www.u-he.com/music/Zebra2OSC.mp3

All you hear is basically 1 Oscillator per voice, using different ways to *bend* the waveforms...

The drums come from UltraBeat, the delay on the Space Guitar (yes, there's no filter...) is Logic's Stereo Delay. An ADLimiter on master prevents clipping.

Cheers,

Urs

ORIGINAL: rjt

If you are considering buying a product like Cameleon 5000, I would buy it from Camel Audio. In the past, the originating company has offered much better support than Cakewalk. For example, I purchased (at least) two products through Cake. The original PentagonI from RGC and the BBE Sonic Maximizer. Everytime there was an announcement that PentagonI had upgraded (from reading KvR or surfing to the rgc website) I heard nothing from Cakewalk. E-mails to tech support about the upgrades went unanswered. Rene at rgc was kind enough to give me upgrades because I kept the original e-mail confirming my purchase from Cakewalk.... but to this day, I don't think I am on his e-mail notification list.

Cakewalk's privacy policy prohibits forwarding your name, email address, or any other details to Camel Audio. If you purchase a Camel Audio product through Cakewalk, and you want to receive email notices about any relevant bugfixes, product updates, etc, you need to contact support@camelaudio.com and ask to be placed in our database. To be added to the database, we require your name, your product name & serial number, and a valid email address. So far, only a few people who have purchased Camel Audio products from Cakewalk have contacted Camel Audio. It's very likely that many people will miss out on product update notices because of this.

That said, I want to reassure everyone that no matter where you purchase a Camel Audio product, you can always get tech support from Camel Audio, by providing us with your name and your product serial number.


Thank you,
Glen Berry
Camel Audio Tech Support
support@camelaudio.com