mellotron source

[Kirke Sonnichsen]

I would second this with one caveat: all the samples are 22.05kHz!

- Kirke
(fine and mello)


>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