Mellotronists

I heard the Memotron at Namm.There is something about it that does not say
"mellotron". It does not have that heart! In fact, decent samples run though
an Akai or Motif have much more authenticity than what I heard.

 

On another subject, this morning I was at the LA symphony and I had an
amazing tron flashback. As the strings were swelling during the Shostakovich
13th Babi Yar movement, I flashed back to freezing my ass off at the West
Palm Beach Rock Festival in 1969 and hearing Ian McDonald's Mellotron for
the first time. Damn was that an experience! I had one of those sense
flashbacks where I remembered everything. Not bad for 36 years later.

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Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:56 AM
To: charel196@...; Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: Memotron

 

In a message dated 27/01/2006 16:33:34 GMT Standard Time,
charel196@... writes:

It's just another sample replay machine and doesn't emulate a 
mellotron in  
> any way.  

Ah, Chuck, don't get so fretful!  The point is that as a seasoned tron
owner, you know that mellotrons have hard to define attributes that means
they never play the same thing the same way twice.  There are a lot more
elements at play and we have spent a long time defining them for our own
edification.  Unless you model what a mellotron does then a sample replay
instrument is a compromise and that's what the Memotron is - a compromise.
Jealousy really doesn't come into it at all!

 

Best,

 

Martin

 


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