Mellotron/sample/wave type question.

[Martin Czech]

> Dear all,
> 
>   I have for many years admired the sound of the mellotron choir, as no 
> doubt have mosy of you, does anyone have the means of supplying me with 
> a good high quality sample (44.2Khz+) of this sound, it needs to be say 
> about 5 seconds long.... let me explain why..
> 
>    What I would like ot do is extract single cycles of waveform from the 
> sample (say ooo, 64 bytes per sample) and space these xtracts every say 
> 50-60 cycles, (can you see whats comming yet?).
> 
SNIP

1.) There are CDs out there that have a lot of non custom mellotron
tapes as samples. Some time ago I posted what CD it was...

2.) Taking a short cycle waveform won't work: 
I) what is a single cycle of such a complex waveform?
   you'll have difficulties to find the single cycle ends.
II) If you finally obtain a single cycle waveform, it will sound totally
different then your original sample. The characteristic phasing pattern
of the choir sound will get lost, thus it will not sound like choir
any more...



I'll tryed all this with a simple sample (me singing Ahhhh), and it
didn't work at all. So a complex choir sample won't work neither...


m.c.