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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: Memotron

From: lsf5275@...
Date: 2006-01-28

In a message dated 1/27/2006 12:08:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, tronbros@... writes:
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 never play the same thing the same way twice.  There are a lot more elements at play 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 a compromise and that's what the Memotron is - a compromise.  Jealousy really doesn't come into it at all!
 
Best,
 
Martin
It's more than that, isn't it? The Memotron is a sample playback of a sample playback machine. Therefore, it can never be better, but it can well be worse. You can't record new samples into it.
 
Fuck it.
 
me