Hi Rick,
I think that M300's don't have pitch controls, but I
am pretty sure I have heard notes and chords being
bent by them, how is it done?
Can you really alter pitch by as much as an octave on
a Mark II?
Mark
--- Rick Blechta <
rick@rickblechta.com> wrote:
> One thing that should be mentioned to those who have
> never played a
> MkII is that the pitch range is a great deal bigger
> than what is
> available on an M400 and all later mellotrons. So
> Pinder was unlikely
> to have needed to do anything other than turn his
> pitch control way
> down to drop an octave. (Not having my MkII here in
> front of me, I
> can't tell you exactly what the range is; anyone
> else care to step in?)
>
> Another notable low-pitch mellotron part in "Devil's
> Triangle" by King
> Crimson, might be slowed down, but possible not.
>
> I wonder why the pitch sweep was smaller on later
> mellotrons. David
> and Markus's half-speed switch is a good effort to
> correct this, but
> I've always wondered why that feature was changed.
> It's great for all
> sorts of things in the studio -- or for vocalists
> who can't cut parts
> in the original key. You get to watch the guitarists
> suffer through
> trying to transpose while you just twiddle a knob
> and are ready to
> go. ;)
>
> Rick
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