I gave away my copy of the Propeller Island disk to another list member. Overall, I didn't like it that much. Some of the sounds were recorded in octaves, or just poorly recorded. Also, it was an audio-only CD, which makes it harder to use if you have a sampler that can load Akai banks.
I don't own but have used the Pinder CD-ROM and I recommend it. I believe the Pinder disk has way more sounds on it. However, I have heard that the samples on the Pinder CD were recorded at 22kHz, and you may want to consider whether you like the sound of your sampler's filters at 11kHz. I definitely hear some not-good artifacts on my S-2800, but they're not enough to deter me. What I hear, btw, is a strong resonant peak up around the filter cutoff frequency. The nice thing about 22kHz samples is being able to load an entire bank in a measly 16 megs of memory, which is all I have.
Stan
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-----Original Message-----
From: luvmyguitar [mailto:
mike.puccio@...]
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 5:17 PM
To:
Mellotronists@yahoogroups.comSubject: [Mellotronists] Mellotron CD-ROM's
Does anyone know which CD-ROM of Mellotron samples is the best? I
have been told that the Propeller Island 'Legendary Mellotron' is the
best, and way better than the Michael Pinder one on the Mellotron web
site. Is this correct? Is there a better ne? Any help is appreciated.
Mike
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