Mellotron/sample/wave type question.

[Douglas R. Kraul]

Interesting idea.  Sort of like ReCycler for waves.

This sort of thinking was behind the original Fairlight and I though had
some promise but they got distracted by real sampling.

I think the key is some form of interpolation between the waves while
scanning the table.

One problem to overcome will be finding true loopable waves to fill the
table.  A rich sound like a vocal chorus tends to be constantly in motion
and can be a bear to loop.  Soundforge and crossfade looping to the rescue.

Before building, could you simulate it using something like Generator from
NI?

Douglas Kraul
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Maddox <space_banana at hotmail.com>
To: synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 7:16 AM
Subject: Mellotron/sample/wave type question.


>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?).
>
>   So I would end with say 128 64byte samples, which I may be able to
>fit onto an eprom and use as a complete wave table... now I know this is
>boring and you may say why not use a sampler, but I dont like doing
>things the easy way, you know?
>   All you software people it may be fun to write a program that spaces
>128 waves (or more) over the length of the sample and extracts these
>numbers into a table ready to be put on an eprom.
>
>   In theory (he we go, flame throwers at the ready) this would lead to
>an almost perfect playback at whatever note you played.. as the time for
>the sound would be controlled by a CV from say an EG and NOT by the
>speed of playback of the sample..
>
>    Next question,
>
>      Am I nuts?
>
>
>   TTFN %-P
>
>   Paul MADdox
>
>
>
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