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I heard the Memotron at Namm…Thereis something about it that does not say “mellotron”… It doesnot have that heart! In fact, decent samples run though an Akai or Motif havemuch more authenticity than what I heard…
On another subject, this morning I was at the LAsymphony and I had an amazing tron flashback. As the strings were swellingduring the Shostakovich 13th Babi Yar movement, I flashedback to freezing my ass off at the West Palm Beach Rock Festival in 1969 andhearing Ian McDonald’s Mellotron for the first time… Damn was thatan experience! I had one of those sense flashbacks where I rememberedeverything… Not bad for 36 years later…
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From: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of tronbros@...
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:56 AM
To: charel196@...; Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re:Memotron
In amessage dated 27/01/2006 16:33:34 GMT Standard Time, charel196@...writes:
It'sjust another sample replay machine and doesn't emulate a
mellotron in
> any way.
Ah,Chuck, don't get so fretful! The point is that as a seasoned tron owner,you know that mellotrons have hard to define attributes that means they neverplay the same thing the same way twice. There are a lot more elements atplay and we have spent a long time defining them for our own edification. Unless you model what a mellotron does then a sample replay instrument is acompromise and that's what the Memotron is - a compromise. Jealousyreally doesn't come into it at all!
Best,
Martin
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