KYMA PACARANA casi confirmado…
Hace ya muchos años que le tengo echado el ojo al sistema KYMA CAPYBARA, pero siempre por un motivo u otro (si, vaaaale…, es un pelín caro) andaba postponiendo la decisión. Una de las búsquedas que tengo almacenadas en ebay es precisamente la de uno de estos sistemas y me ha sorprendido mucho encontrar en las últimas dos semanas una avalancha de CAPYBARAS en venta. Al cuarto o quinto que salió se me puso la mosca tras la oreja y empecé a investigar. Afortunadamente no me hizo falta sacar mi gabardina de Sherlock Holmes ni llamar a mi querido Watson; bastó con unas cuantas consultas al oráculo.
Los rumores apuntaban hacia la aparición de dos nuevos sistemas de Symbolic Sound, el Paca y el Pacaraná. En la web del fabricante se encuentra este mensaje:
Something new is coming…
Watch here for clues…
Y dándole al enlace aparece la siguiente información:
Clues
1. Caviomorpha rock!
2. Count Branicki's terrible mouse
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The pacarana (Dinomys branickii) is a rare and slow-moving South American rodent found only in tropical forests of the western Amazon River basin and adjacent foothills of the Andes Mountains from northwestern Venezuela and Colombia to western Bolivia.
It is a hystricognath rodent, and the sole extant member of the family Dinomyidae in Caviomorpha; initially, it was placed with true mice. Some evidence places the pacarana as closely related to the prehistoric giant rodents that ruled South America millions of years ago, such as Phoberomys pattersoni and Josephoartigasia monesi.
Also known as Count Branicki's terrible mouse,[citation needed] it is known as the "pacarama" ("false paca") by native Indians due to its superficial similarity to a different caviomorph rodent, the paca.
It has a chunky body and is large for a rodent, weighing up to 15 kg (33 lb)) and measuring up to 79 cm (31 in)) in length, not including the thick, furry tail.
Y en castellano a eso se le llama una "guagua con rabo" 
Citando y recitando la información sobre los rumores que circulan por internet aparece lo siguiente (copio y pego):
Quote from Matrixsynth:
"New Kyma Pacarana?
via sequencer.de:
"There will be two new products: the Pacarana and the Paca sound computation engines. Both the Pacarana and the Paca are named for animals smaller than the Capybara and either can serve as a smaller-yet-more-powerful replacement for the Capybara-320 in a Kyma sound design workstation. Each of these new platforms connects to your computer via FireWire 800 (we can supply an 800-400 cable if your computer has a FW 400 port). The new devices use external FireWire or USB audio converters and they can also use the Capybara-320 converters through the Flame FireWire interface.
Kyma X continues to work exactly as before.
Millimeters Inches
Pacarana 357 X 249 X 45 14 X 10 X 1.77
Paca 281 X 249 X 45 11 X 10 X 1.77
Capabilities
The flagship Pacarana is 50% more powerful than a fully-loaded Capybara-320 for far less than half the price. The entry-level Paca is $500 less than the price of a Basic Capybara-320, but the Paca is 5 times more powerful. The new machines are more compact and do not require expansion cards.
Summary
The Paca and Pacarana sound engines provide more computing power in a smaller package for less money. Pacas and Pacaranas are easier to take on stage for live performances, to bring along on tours, to move from your personal studio to a sound stage, to transport between work and home or to move from one studio to another.
What’s next
We are currently accepting orders for the new machines and will begin shipping on December 1st. (If you were to decide to place an order in advance, we would not charge your credit card until the day we actually ship the system to you. Ordering in advance is simply a way to reserve a system and to reserve an early position in the queue)."
There is no news of Pacarana on Symbolic Sound's website as of this post."
Es decir, el baratito ("Paca") costará poco menos de 3.000$ y será cinco veces más potente que el Capybara 320 básico (que dispone de 4 procesadores y 96 MB de RAM. Para ser cinco veces más potente debería ser equivalente al básico equipado con ocho tarjetas de expansión, lo que hasta ahora nos dejaba la cuenta en 7.754$ (jarl!). El Pacarana (bestia peluda) equivaldría a un hipotético sistema Capybara con 36 procesadores y un precio de 25.000$ y si tiene que ser mucho menos que la mitad del precio podríamos esperar algo así como 9.999$. No llevan convertidores pero pueden usar los del Capybara 320, lo que hace que pillar uno usado pudiera ser una buena opción aunque fuera sólo como tarjeta de sonido "deluxe".
