> My understanding is that he used a lot of oscillators with PWM,
> and fed that
> through some Roland delay units for that super-space string sound. I don't
> know much about the Moog String Filter.
>
> I haven't played his "Sound Creature" album in about 20 years...
> I'm pretty
> sure he 'explains' on that album how he gets his classic string sound.
>
Not familiar with "Sound Creature". Does he actually speak on it, and talk
about his synthesis technique? Have you got this album?
> If we're talking about the same sound, it's definitely not Mellotron. In
> fact, the only easily-identifiable Mellotron sound I can think of
> on Tomita
> albums is the occasional male chorus.
>
He does use (briefly) the Mellotron string sound, heavily phased, along with
Clavinet on Cosmos.
> If it is a bunch of narrow-bandpass filters with separate outs,
> mightn't we
> make one from a battery of MOTM Triple-Resonant Filters...?
>
Maybe. You can't manually adjust resonance amount on the 410, though. And it
would take like 10 modules, because I think the string filter had 30 bands
or something.
Matter of fact, I just went up on the Moog Custom Engineering site, and he
still offers it for sale - rack mount for $1345, describes it as a "36 band
VC-Resonant Multi Filter."
Tuning it would be a bitch!
Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
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