mellotron source

[riccardo]

Hi everybody,
may be this has already been written, but there is a good CD ROM called
Mike Pinter's mellotron which covers all classic mellotronic (from
chamberlin to
mellotron 4 tracks) sounds.
There are no loops and the samples cover each key (of mellos or
chamberlins) sampled for the famous 8 seconds.

I have three mellotrons (a 400 a 400s and a novatron 400) and I find quite
satisfactory the quality of the samples and the entire "philosophy" of the
CD ROM. There should also be another CD but I cannot tell anything about it.

In any case the samples reproduce many goodies and odds of the old beast,
some scratches all over, the famous emotional pitch and the difference
between adiacent keys.
One of the main difference between the samples and the original is that
samples always sound the same, the original not always sounds (the very
drastic cases).

By the way it is true that key strucking weght means a lot, also heads
alignement is very important, never tried to put a head between two tracks?

Tapes rewinding is faster than you could imagine, but don't try to play
fast trills or it'll become a thrill.

getting too stupid, must go.......

ciao
riccardo