AW: Mellotron/sample/wave type question.

[Martin Czech]

> Haible Juergen wrote:
> > Right. Even the long mellotron samples don't carry the
> > feeling of the real instrument. How could a short sniplet ?
> 
> Well, I think that's a matter of taste (like everything...). The
> mellotron flute samples sound very much like Strawberry Fields to my
> ears...
> 
In a mix it would be very hard to decide if it's an original mellotron
or just a multisample, I think. If you do a mellotron only recording,
well that's like with any other machine, if you listen carefull there
will be differences, for shure. But maybe the latter situation is a bit
academic or unusuall.


By the way: for one of my last pieces I used "Granny" (granulab),
a shareware Win95 granular synthesis tool. It's absolutely cool and
recommended. You can record directly to hard disk. It will run even on
a sluggish Pentium 90 .Now, all parameters can be controlled, like grain
length, grain position. Doing this you can get a good impression of what
it means to repeat short wave sniplets, the sound can varry extremely,
from delay effects down to robotic ringmodulatorish.

Have a look at www.shareware.com.

m.c.