The Mellotron Group

Sorry to hear about your wife and sister Frank. I knew you had moved but didn't know of your family problems. I hope things will improve. I don't like my voice much either, but no one else is going to sing my songs!

Best wishes

Mark


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 From: "lsf5275@aol.com" <lsf5275@aol.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2013 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Software vs hardware samplers
 


  
The SMS2 on my M4000 is not working and at this time and I have all of my 
tools packed away. I do not have any shop at the moment although I am currently 
looking to rent a space until I can build a stand-alone building on my property. 
I can get out a soldering iron, I suppose, but I have no means of tracking down 
the problem. All my test equipment in a mountain of boxes in a storage facility 
ten miles away. At the moment, the Mark II is in the garage. I need to get it up 
a flight of stairs and the door frame has to come off in order to do that. My 
wife has been ill for some time and my little sister is fighting leukemia, which 
has taken about everyone else in my family except my mom, who gave it up to 
emphysema. Getting this place in order has taken a lot of work. My hands are 
pretty full. I am about to send off one of the M400s to Vancouver and that will 
free up enough space to get the Mark II in, once I get the door frame off and 
get some help to get it up the stairs. I suspect that will have to be done soon 
as we are getting into the fall. 
You may or may not know that we moved to a new (for us) home after 24 years 
in the old one. We gave up 1/3rd of the space we had for more land, more privacy 
and fewer stairs and another Doberman (we have 3 rescues), but most of all, to 
be near my sister.
 
My life is very much,"day to day". I have been playing more than I 
have for the last 40 years. True. Fewer instruments to noodle with right now 
because most are stored away for the time being. But I have been playing for an 
hour or more nearly every night and, amazingly, I've gotten better. I have also 
been composing and recording music and writing lyrics, something I did quite a 
bit of, long, long ago. Something might actually come of it. The music comes 
easy, the words a bit slower. The stories are there, but phrasing is the issue. 
I also find that writing lyrics is often like writing a letter. I used to always 
wait a day to mail letters of a personal nature. Often, I would find that there 
was more or less in them than I wanted to say. Second guessing, I suppose. I 
also hate the sound of my own voice and it's never me I imagine singing the 
words.
 
I wish Dave Seville was still alive .
 
Frank (too much shit to list)
 
In a message dated 9/28/2013 6:25:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
markpringnz@yahoo.com writes:
  
>Wot no M4000 or Mark II? About time we heard  some. 
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>Mark
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> From: "lsf5275@aol.com" <lsf5275@aol.com>
>To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com 
>Sent: Sunday, 29 September  2013 7:22 AM
>Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Software vs hardware samplers
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>Lately I have been spending time with just two instruments... an  M400 and my Triton ProX... and a cheesy drum machine. No computers except to  capture what I'm doing. 
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>In a message dated 9/28/2013 2:02:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  markpringnz@yahoo.com writes:
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>>Thanks Dave but I couldn't face getting another computer  system. With computers and workstations I seem to get distracted away  from playing. The electro 4 is fairly simple and I think I will be  more likely just to play it.
>>Mark
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>> From: Hammonddave  <hammonddave2004@yahoo.com>; 
>>To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com  <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>; 
>>Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Off  topic Software vs hardware samplers 
>>Sent: Fri, Sep 27, 2013 2:08:38 PM 
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>>One word:  Logic.  
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>>David 
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>>On Sep 27, 2013, at 1:37, Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>I probably will in the end Andy. It has a fairly good  action and the one I tried out had a quite useable piano and a very  nice harpsichord. The free sample library is also a plus. A   good piano will cost at least $20,000 compared to $3700 for  the Electro. ( Kiwi dollars )
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>>>Mark
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>>> From: Kinchmusic <kinchmusic@aol.com>
>>>To: "newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com"  <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> 
>>>Sent: Friday, 27 September 2013 7:35 PM
>>>Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Software vs hardware samplers
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>>>Nah, get yourself the Electro Mark.
>>> I have the Electro 3 and am really happy with it.  Lightweight, so simple to use. Great organs, acoustic pianos, Rhodes  variants, trons, all very useable particular when driven through the  on board eqs and amp/effects sims. And if that's not enough, you can  download from the huge sample library for free from the Nord  website.
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>>>Andy K
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>>>Sent from my iPad
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>>>On 27 Sep 2013, at 07:26, Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>>Seems to work well but I don't really like computers. Some  times I think I should just buy a really good piano.
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>>>>Mark
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>>>> From: "fdoddy@aol.com" <fdoddy@aol.com>
>>>>To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com 
>>>>Sent: Thursday, 26 September 2013 11:21 PM
>>>>Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Software vs hardware samplers
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>>>>I'm sure we  have different needs for these instruments, but I couldn't do my  job without Kontakt.  It's deep, but it's robust  and well designed.  Anyone who owns the Chamber Winds, Angry  Strings or Plucked piano for their tronis essentially playing a Kontakt patch :>)
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>>>>-----Original  Message-----
>>>>From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
>>>>To: 
              newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
>>>>Sent: Thu, Sep 26, 2013 3:57 am
>>>>Subject: 
              Re: [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Software vs hardware samplers
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>>>>Well I have been messing about with Kontakt 5 for few  days and will be saving up for the Electro 4 or something  similar.
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>>>> From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
>>>>To: mellold <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> 
>>>>Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2013 8:25 AM
>>>>Subject: [newmellotrongroup]  Off topic Software vs hardware samplers
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>>>>I was trying out the Nord Electro 4 HP73 at the week end  which I really liked. However it is really just a keyboard that  plays back samples. I have a weighted action midi keyboard and a  PC already and for a 10th of the price could use Kontakt 5. Has  anybody on the list used both? Any thoughts?
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>>>>Mark
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