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Hello

I haven`t been able to figure out what is the pitch range of MkII`s
pitch control (in semitones or in %).

Another thing that has bothered me is why there is no higher quality
sample library of Mellotron MkII`s
sounds.All currently available libraries have been sampled at lower
resolution than it is possible today.
The M-tron´s sounds I believe have been sampled at 16bit/44kHz
resolution and some of them in the early
80`s (Klaus Hoffmann-Hoock).Some libraries are sampled at even lower
resolution (Mike Pinder presents... ,etc.)
These days we have higher resolution converters (24bit and up to
192kHz) which can deliver more analog depth
and detail.We also have disk streaming technology and computers with
huge amount of RAM so sample size
should not be a big problem anymore.

It is possible to program randomness to sample pool so that every time
you trigger
certain key,there is slightly different sample.It is also possible to
use different sample layers for
playing with the attacks.The sounds themselves should not be ironed
out like they`ve done with
current libraries(M-tron).I`d like to see properly sampled MkII sound
library recorded from well maintained
MkII`s.Is this just a silly dream?

Thank you!