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--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "spaceanimals" <alciere@m...> wrote:
> Try a Mellotron string patch. You can buy a new one at 
mellotron.com 
> for a mere $5000.00 or try the M-Tron software from Gemedia. I use 
> the mellotron patches in the old EMU Vintage Keys.The mellotron was 
> an early primative sampler that used 7 second tape recordings of 
> instruments-think Strawberry Fields for the flute, or Pink Floyd 
for 
> themale choir, and The Moody Blues for string patches.

For Roland synths, the vintage expansion board has some attractive 
mellotron choirs, strings and flutes. A lot of the character comes 
from tape compression, wow and flutter and hiss. You could simulate 
these in a synth with compression, lfo modulation of pitch and white 
noise. Additionally the mellotrons filtered off the high end pretty 
radically to give that mellow warm tone that people love. So you 
would use a low pass filter. Those are the steps I take to make a 
modern, pristine sample get that aged character.

Jerry