The Ultimate Sound Design Hardware: Pacarana
Regardless of my feelings, this has to quicken the pulse of any self-proclaimed music geek, "The Most powerful sound design workstation on the planet"
It's not exactly just hardware, it's a massive load of outboard sound processing power.
In a nutshell the Paca Rana claims:
The Pacarana is a powerful multiprocessor computer that runs alongside your Macintosh or PC. Like other computers, the function of the Pacarana is defined by its software. Unlike other computers, the Pacarana doesn’t have to run a huge general-purpose operating system with elaborate GUIs and multiple independent processes that can interrupt each other at any time. With the Pacarana, all compute cycles are dedicated to sound; you don’t have to share it with any other tasks.
You can’t run software without a computer. This computer was designed for sound computation.
The Pacarana communicates with the Kyma X software running under Mac OS or Windows via FireWire 800 (IEEE1394
or an 800-to-400 adapter cable.
Audio and MIDI input and output is handled via an external FireWire or USB converter or, for current Kyma owners, through a Capybara-320 with Flame FireWire I/O. Connect additional USB MIDI controllers like keyboards or fader boxes via the second USB port.
So how does it sound....?
Here's a drum loop and then a processed through the device:
Here's a cool audio morphing example, drum loop to a voice:
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