my Emu E4K has 76 keys and you can just load in the Pinder CD M300 A
& B and assign the keyboard zones appropriately and you have the
full spread. So get a 76 or 88 note controller.
--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, MAinPsych@... wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 12/8/2006 8:01:25 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> mellotronmadness@... writes:
>
> Hi, I just want to sound like Woolly Wolstenholme (Barclay James
Harvest )
> without actually having to buy an M300. I've got the M-Tron but
it doesn't
> sound remotely like, either M300 strings or M300 violins ( the
only M-Tron
> voices I like are the cello, saxophone, boys choir and clarinet,
generally it's
> quite disappointing) As I understand it Woolly never changed
banks on his
> M300, I assume he could only mix one other sound with strings
which I
> believe were M300a. I could be persuaded to buy the Mellotron CD
and a
> software sampler. Could that provide something close? I only play
for my own
> amusement and to inflict pain on others, so near enough would do.
> I've looked at the Kontackt and Vsampler, how much memory do these
> things need to perform? Thanks, Mark
> PS These days with Maestoso he has an M400 with remastered
strings but
> they don't sound as good.
> PPS I am not trying to restart the samples vs real thing debate!
>
>
>
> Hi, Mark.
>
> I have the Pinder/Mellotron CD, run through an AKAI CD3000i
sampler, and
> quickly discovered that the M300 samples are 300A strings from
approx. notes
> 1-19, and then shifts an octave down with M300B strings from
approx. notes 20-35
> (it may be the other way around, but I haven't used the disc for
a long
> time). It makes for some interesting voicings with that
combination across the
> keys, but frustrating when you want one over the other across the
keyboard.
> Do I have an aberrent disc, or are they all like this? At least
I have a tape
> frame for my 400 with M300A strings/IM, Flute/M300B strings, and
the same
> combination on Station 1, RH side of my MkII, but then I am a
lucky S.O.B.
>
> Frank Samagaio
> San Diego CA
> MkII #134 (Pindertron) / M400 3908
> author, The Mellotron Book
>