Mellotronists

Hi Mike,
If I had a mellotron I wouldn't need the samples! I
use mtron, its not very good, did the mellotron
company do 1-5 with the Mike Pinder CD? I might be
prepared to buy a sampler whilst I waiting to win
lotto.

Mark
--- Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@...> wrote:

> Mark Pring wrote:
> > It's a shame that sampling doesn't work
> 
> I would really like to knock this one on the head
> once and for all. 
> Sampling a Mellotron most certainly works; I've done
> it with #996 on 
> 3-violins and I will guarantee you that no one will
> ever be able to tell 
> the difference betwen one sound and the other. I'm
> not saying that they 
> are close - I'm saying that they are completely
> identical. How do you do 
> it?
> 
>    1. Get one Mellotron
>    2. Make sure it works and that all the sounds are
> playing well
>    3. Record every note in full
>    4. Er
>    5. That's it.
> 
> 
> Where the use of samples falls over is in the
> *tinkering* that goes on 
> after the event. Hmm. Slightly ugly timbre on that
> one. Let's just 
> re-tune one of the adjacent notes instead. Bit of a
> pop on the master 
> there. Edit that bit out. Oooh. White noise all over
> that one. Let's 
> noise reduce it. In fact, let's variably noise
> reduce the lot. And 
> tuning? Wow. Isn't that what Antares is for?
> 
> And *that* is if they are feeling charitable and
> give you a full 
> complement of 35 notes in uncompressed format, as
> opposed to (say) 15 
> interpolated notes resampled at 128kb/s or so.
> 
> It's not true to say that you cannot sample a
> Mellotron and get a good 
> result. However, it's more than accurate to say that
> you cannot /buy/ 
> such a thing right now because it simply doesn't
> exist.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Mike Dickson - M400 #996
> The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
> Streetly Sample Library
> http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/tron
> 
> 
> 



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