There are 2, uh, families of products bearing the Vintage Keys" name, or thereabouts.
The original "Vintage Keys" was a Proteus1/2 derived thing, withdigital filters kluged onto it. Its 8Mb of preset samplesincluded Violins, flutes male & female vox multisample sets, whichwere not too bad for the time, though I don't know how they'd hold upnow. There was a good alternative keymap for each of the voxsample sets where the octaves were reversed, so each octave up thekeyboard went down in pitch. It was pretty effective as a mixer. The related/expanded (16Mb instead of 8Mb of sounds) "vintagekeys plus" had an extra chambelin violins/strings sample set in itIIRC. there was also a version called the "Classic Keys" whichhad the basic 8Mb sound set, and the digital filters removed. Notsure what the point of that one was, TBH.
The later Proteus 2000 family of products had 3 variations with a 32Mbsample set on a SIMM-shaped memory stick, which included Violins,Flutes, Male vox, Female Vox and Brass.
The "Vintage Pro" was nearly identical to a Proteus 2000, except withthe vintage sample set instead of the "composer" set, as fitted to theP2000, and a different-coloured panel.
The "Vintage Keys" was a (pretty naff, IMO) 5 octave keyboard,with the 32Mb vintage soud set included. there was a range ofsimilar pieces, differentiated by the sample set included, andthe colour of the panel/casing.
The sample set memory stick was available on its own (I boughtone), and it could be dropped into any of the Emu products based aroundthe same or similar engine.
The Violins and Flutes are ok, the Vox are too, though strangely not aslikeable as those in the earlier Vintage Keys, the Brass is shit,really horrible. It's not one of my favouritr sets anyway, butthis version of it is super nasty.
I recently played in a band for a while, and was supplied with a YamahaMotif 6, which included a "Tape Stings" preset, which sounded like itwas based on an unbelievably crap 'tron derived sample set. Theprogram had some degree of random pitch variation per keystike, whichwas overdone and nasty. I'd have programmed it out, but thekeyboard wasn't mine. the preset was actually worse than the onein the Roland JV2080 series vintage board, which is an achievement ofsorts. (some of the other presets in the Motif, esp the electricpianos were great though)
A version of the hollow sun newtron samples is available as IIRC a free downoad for owners of Alesis new-ish "Fusion" keyboard.
there is a free VST plug somewhere on teh intarweb called "tapeworm", based IIRC around the jp hovercraft samples.
that's about all I can think of off the top of my head.
On 6/29/06, Andy Thompson <andy.thompson@...> wrote: Dear all
I keep being asked, via my site, what the 'best' 'Tron samples are. Not sure why people ask me - I own a Mellotron. :-) However, I've been thinking I should put a page up on the subject, as it ain't gonna go away. So far, I've listed these:
Hardware:
E-mu Vintage Keys module
Roland Vintage Synth module/expansion card(s)
Memotron
Software:
M-Tron
Sampletank
Pinder CD
JP Hovercraft downloads
There must be loads of others - can anyone help? I don't need detailed info (that's what the Internet's for), just pointers to any major sample providers I've missed.
Ta,
Andy T.