Mellotronists

I have been wanting a mellotron but they are too expensive for me so I decided to buy the 
Pindertron Cds and I will need a keyboard to work them. My question is what keyboard new 
or old can I get that will make these things sing ? thanks

Well, presumeably you'll be loading the sounds from the Pindertron CD
into some kind of sampler (either a hardware one, or a "soft-sampler"
program on a computer. The sampler will almost certain have a MIDI
connection, in which case you can connect any MIDI keyboard to play it.
DAVID

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "hofner007" <sakuradamon@...> wrote:
>
> I have been wanting a mellotron but they are too expensive for me so
I decided to buy the 
> Pindertron Cds and I will need a keyboard to work them. My question
is what keyboard new 
> or old can I get that will make these things sing ? thanks
>

Emu E4....rack or keyboard version (E4K...what I use) and 128 meg 
expansion    or I've heard Alesis Fusion does a good job too


--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "hofner007" <sakuradamon@...> 
wrote:
>
> I have been wanting a mellotron but they are too expensive for me so 
I decided to buy the 
> Pindertron Cds and I will need a keyboard to work them. My question 
is what keyboard new 
> or old can I get that will make these things sing ? thanks
>

Any MIDI controller will do as long as you have the Pinder set fed into a sampler, be it hard or soft (e.g. Kontakt, VSampler). Of course, if you want to play

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "Dagfinn Hobæk"
<dagfinn.hobaek@...> wrote:
 Of course, if you want
> to play the intro to "Epitaph", you'll want a controller with a
pitch wheel.
> :)

A pedant posts...

The intro doesn't have any mellotron pitch bends. ;)

Oh carp! ITCOTCK was what I meant. Sorry about that. Embarrassing. Blame it on the lager. ... Oh carp! ITCOTCK was what I meant. Sorry about that.

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "Dagfinn Hobæk"
<dagfinn.hobaek@...> wrote:
>
> Oh carp! ITCOTCK was what I meant.
> 
> Sorry about that. Embarrassing. Blame it on the lager.

There are no pitch bends for that songs intro either. :P

you're probably thinking of the middle break in Epitaph, before the bass clarinet solo




--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "Dagfinn Hobæk" <dagfinn.hobaek@...> wrote:

>
> Oh carp! ITCOTCK was what I meant.
> 
> Sorry about that. Embarrassing. Blame it on the lager.
> 
> 
> On 12/6/06, lil_guapo11 <lil_guapo11@...> wrote:
> >
> > --- In Mellotronists@...m <Mellotronists%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > "Dagfinn Hobæk"
> > <dagfinn.hobaek@> wrote:
> > Of course, if you want
> > > to play the intro to "Epitaph", you'll want a controller with a
> > pitch wheel.
> > > :)
> >
> > A pedant posts...
> >
> > The intro doesn't have any mellotron pitch bends. ;)
> >
> > 
> >
>

Thank you, that is the part I was thinking of. This is obviously a good incentive for me to start listening to KC again. Puh ... Thank you, that is the part I