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Subject: Re: Fw: [Mellotronists] Good Midi-controller for M-Tron?

From: "jonesalley" <jonesalley@...>
Date: 2007-07-23

I should have phrased that better.  What you get is enough sensitivity to bring out individual notes and lines in chords and chord progressions.  You don't get big crescendos, but you get enough to make ensemble parts sound more real.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Pring
To: mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: [Mellotronists] Good Midi-controller for M-Tron?

My experience of playing a mellotron is limited to playing an M4000 for a short time,  I was surprised that there was a degree of touch control particularly on attack but  I didn't find that I had much if any control over  volume. For example I couldn't play a loud melody with my right hand accompanied  by quiet chords with my left hand. The left hand tends to drown the right just as in M-tron.

I had hoped to get round this with M-tron by editing the note volumes afterwards but I haven't managed to do this, in FL Studio after I do edit the note volume if just reverts to the previous volume.

If any one knows how to do this in M-tron, please let me know.

I am trying to get round this problem by doubling each tron track with loud tron and soft tron for each voice. But the effect isn't particularly subtle.

My ideal mellotron would have a larger range, say 5 octaves and have 2 keyboards one above the other so that I could play strings and a lead instrument simultaneously and be as touch sensitve as a piano.

However I would happily setle for an M400!

Mark


jonesalley <jonesalley@...> wrote:
Actually, a well-adjusted Mellotron is quite touch-sensitive, with differences of attack via velocity and polyphonic tone and volume control via pressure.  They are extremely nuanced and alive-feeling instruments, something they rarely get proper credit for.
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Pring
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Good Midi-controller for M-Tron?

Why is lack of response to touch a good thing? I use m-tron hosted by FL Studio and find it quite frustrating that I can't find any way of altering the note volume within a track. A  sample based touch sensitive tron would at least have one advantage over a real one.

Mark

Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@ gmail.com> wrote:

Any bit of crap will do. The M-Tron doesn't need much. It only requires
35 active keys, does not respond to touch (good) and does not respond to
voice changes either (bad).

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Mike Dickson (tron@blackcat. demon.co. uk) M400 #996
The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
Streetly Sample Library http://www.blackcat .demon.co. uk/tron/


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