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From: <ferrograph@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] TD-ousness


> << Duncan - what about Stratosfear? Still rate its title track as their
Best
> Piece Ever. But then, maybe it's the closest they got to 'prog'. :-) >>
>
> just testing, andy. at least you had the good grace to avoid mention of
> "cyclone" with it's 'loop mellotron', whatever that might've been. great
flute line
> in "big sleep".

No-one's ever come up with a decent theory as to what that might've been,
have they? Or did someone once say that Dave Kean's 'Tron video has a few
shots of it?

> I'm working my way through my nine frames & sampling them all properly
again
> because we want to be able to use these sounds at all times, whether 1098
is
> with us or not. we're back in philly in may.... I'm going to burn
flash-roms
> for an emu proteus module this time, so we don't have the fallibility of
an
> actual sampler (w/ hard drive or carts to let us down) or the limitations
of the
> alesis ram card, which only takes 8Mb. damn this is clever stuff.
>
> duncan.

'Burn flash-ROMs'? D'you mean you can actually burn sample chips for your
Proteus? Clever stuff...

Andy T.