Greetings all...
To Rick Blechta:... OOPS... my bad... you are correct, sir. Mellotrons use "taped sounds" not patches! However... as these sounds were sampled off a 'Tron... looped... some notes replaced with stretched samples of adjacent sounds... and used on a sampler... "Patches"... or "Sampled Sounds" would be appropriate in this case.
To Bernie Kornowicz:... I see your point. However... Tony Visconti is one hell of a producer... and has a great ear for sounds... and furthermore... I've heard these samples in several Moodies concerts (that is when the sound guys turn up the keys to the proper level... a problem in several Moodies concerts I've been at...)... and what I've heard has been damn good! I would LOVE to have these sounds... or samples... or patches... for the MicroTron... along with the Pinder CD-Rom, the G-Force M-Tron... and any other 'Tron samples/sounds that I can get my hands on!
Now to the question of the day... and this is one I've wondered about for a LONG time... When the Mellotron/Chamberlin was created... why only 35 notes??? They were only 2 notes shy of a full 3 octaves... why couldn't they start the keyboard at "F" instead of "G". Wouldn't it be easier to obtain a 3 octave keyboard, than a 35 note keyboard? Was it an instrument range thing? I know Streetly extended the keyboard for the 300... but it was the only time they deviated from the 35 key range, so I'm sure there must have been a reason for this. In the time I've been on the list... I've never seen this question addressed... and I'm sure I'm not the only one curious 'bout this. I'm waiting with baited breath for any answers... which is strange as I didn't have shrimp (or prawns for the non-Americans reading this missive) for lunch!
Thanks again...
J.P.
MicroTron 001 "...patches... taped sounds... samples... whatever one calls them... 'Tron sounds are GREAT!!!"
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