Mellotronists

As near as I can tell, "vintage" means "too much reverb" and "studio" means 
'WAAAAAAY too much reverb."  Hope this helps.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Leonard" <ken@...>
To: "Mellotronists" <mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Memotron demos now online


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>>I know this has been mentioned before, but the mp3 demos are now available
>>http://www.manikin-electronic.com/products/memotron/memo_description_e.html
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> What is "studio" vs. "vintage"?  The "vintage" flute sounds cruddy and
> "studio" 3 violins are better but just (they probably mixed up the 
> "studio"
> and "vintage" violin demos), "vintage" brass a bit better.  The other
> sounds are almost too clean for a 'tron; the clean violins have an edge
> that could be the MP3 encoding but maybe not.  I wonder if they give you a
> choice of two for each sound---a version that sounds...uhhh..."vintage" 
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> a clean one?  Kinda like the organ state-of-disrepair emulations in the NI
> B-4, maybe?  I got your wobblies and leakage right here!  :-)
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> The tape attack sounds electronically reproduced on the "vintage"
> brass.  Or is that just my ears?  Maybe they simulate the tape smack
> electronically, or they could use different samples based on key velocity.
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> I still like the concept, though, of a small sample player that uses
> CF.  It'd be great to be able to load up samples from anywhere/everywhere
> on the PC and dump them into a unit like the Memotron via CF.  I'm sure
> that some keyboard somewhere already has such capability or will simply
> take downloads from the PC via USB or something.  I dunno - there's only
> one sample player I've ever done any research on, and it's been obsolete
> for over 25 years now.  :-)
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> ...kl...
> M400 #805 - obsolete...?
> M400 #1037 - leakage...?  sounds like a personal problem...
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