Mellotronists

Hi Brady:

I can believe it's not a Mellotron, because this sounds BETTER than a Mellotron!  Yet, it does have a Tronish quality to it -- which is a neat orgainic thing in this digital age.  Its sort of a 21st Century Bitzoid Tron.  Can you tell us more about how you did this.  WHAT sampler did you use?  Did you use some sort of processing to make it sound more Tron like?  How many individual samples are involved?  How long are the samples? Is there any looping being used?  Nice sounding stuff!

Thanks,
Babz


On Monday, August 09, 2004, at 11:53AM, <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>   I've been toying around with the idea (for a while now) to make 
>my own three violins patch, and I finally got around to doing my 
>first "rough draft" version of it...  For those of you who want to 
>skip right to the audio clip then click this link:
>
>http://www.vutdevuk.com/files/fm.mp3
>
>Remember: the sounds in this audio clip are not being played on a 
>tron, and it's definitely not Mellotron samples.  I am also just 
>toying around, and not trying to do anything amazing in this audio 
>clip. 
>   I got the idea one day to listen through a bunch of solo violin 
>pieces and wait for individual notes to be held out long enough to 
>extract them, tag them, and send them to there own folder.  I had to 
>do this until I had three different takes of the same note, and then 
>I would mix each three, EQ them accordingly, and then render them 
>into single wav files in a seperate folder. As I was mixing and 
>rendering I would go ahead and import what I had into my virtual 
>sampler to test how the notes sounded when blended together and 
>whatnot. Even halfway through this little project I was starting to 
>get chills!  My next step is to use real violins, brass sections, 
>flutes, choirs, and whatever else I can think of....  Cheers!  -
>Brady Arnold
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