AW: Mellotron/sample/wave type question.

[Haible Juergen]

	>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...

Right. Even the long mellotron samples don't carry the
feeling of the real instrument. How could a short sniplet ?
One of the (rare) disappointments of the "Synthesizer von
Gestern" CDs was the mellotron track. M.B. aparently
had problems to tune the beast, and sampled a single
note instead. Listening to the little piece of music he has
played with this sample is the best exercise to learn
how not to do it.

JH.