Hi-
Yeah, the article was not new, maybe something
changed in the interim (one can only hope). Good.
I still find it hard to trust digital audio
compression techniques, as much of it sounds like
gravel to me.
The Mellotron imparts many variables upon the tape
voice, INDEPENDENT of the individual/grouped sounds.
So far, sampling keyboards don't address these
aspects. Like a key or keys being depressed and
slowing down the capstan briefly & slightly. Then the
motor catching up, maybe overshooting, then settling
down. Or, just the irregularities of the turning
capstan, which are imparted IN UNISION on all tapes,
no matter which are being played (and when). Or the
wow & flutter of a worn set of tapes, particularly on
ones played a lot. This stuff could be programmed in,
and maybe assigned user controls.
Hisses & fizz? Please, no. But keep the creaking
chairs, coughs, sniffs, auto crashes & breaking
wind... (thanks Mike D.) ;-)
-Bruce D.
--- Mark Pring <
markpringnz@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Web site seems to suggest they will be sampled from
> a
> mellotron
>
> "The nord wave comes shipped with all 68 instruments
> of the Mk I, Mk II, M300 and M400 Mellotrons. By
> sampling the sounds using fresh tape copies and a
> newly manufactured mellotron instrument - built
> using
> vintage components - the nord wave reproduces these
> sounds with all hisses and fizzes exactly as they
> were
> meant to be."
>
> Don't like the sound of the hisses and fizzes
> though.
>
> Mark
> --- lsf5275@aol.com wrote:
>
> >
> > In a message dated 12/5/2007 7:39:28 P.M. Eastern
> > Standard Time,
> > pocotron@yahoo.com writes:
> >
> > Here is an interesting story I ran across. Mr.
> > Kean has sold copies of the Mellotron master
> tapes
> > to
> > Clavia for use as samples in their Nord Wave
> > keyboard.
> > According to the following article, they will NOT
> be
> > sampled from a Mellotron first.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I can confirm this, Although I'm not sure if it is
> > for the Wave. Markus told
> > me that they were coming out with a new keyboard.
> > However this may actually
> > be the one. It was my understanding that you could
> > go to the Clavia website
> > with a key and download all of the sounds.
> >
> > We should get Markus onboard here.
> >
> > Frank II
> >
> >
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