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You can but a brand new Mellotron at www.mellotron.com for a mere 
$5,000. They were most famous for the flute (think Strawberry Fields 
Forever) the choir, and the strings. The Moody Blues used them a lot. 
Chamberlains are a lot like a Mellotron.

The old Vintage Keys module had nice Mellotron samples.For string 
samples, you can take almost any patch, go to the amplitude envelope 
section, turn the attack up to about 40, the sustain and release all 
the way up and voilla. Give the patch some cheesy reverb (I like 
plate reverb). Use the layer button to layer scene 1 and 2, and give 
it a little detune. The AN1X actually has a few nice string section 
patches that only need a little tweaking.

I layer my Mellotron string samples with my AN1x string sounds. For 
extreme tackiness, layer the obnoxious Mellotron female choir ooohs 
with the strings.

It's also fun to build a pretty string patch and set the free eg so 
that the tuning, feedback, and ring modulation start building up 
gradually so this pretty patch dissolves into a mass of cacophony

Rainbow Jimmy
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spaceanimals  heeft geschreven:
> You can but a brand new Mellotron at www.mellotron.com for a mere 
> $5,000. They were most famous for the flute (think Strawberry Fields 
> Forever) the choir, and the strings. The Moody Blues used them a lot. 
> Chamberlains are a lot like a Mellotron.

Doesn't "Maid of Orleans" by OMD contain a lot of Mellotron as well?

- Peter

Hi Jimmy,

> For string
> samples, you can take almost any patch, go to the amplitude envelope
> section, turn the attack up to about 40, the sustain and release all
> the way up and voilla. Give the patch some cheesy reverb (I like
> plate reverb).

Thanks for you answer. Couple questions came in mind. Do you happen to know
how many oscillators there were in ARP solina? So in a string patch, should
I use one or two oscillator (detuned?) in a one scene?

>Use the layer button to layer scene 1 and 2, and give
> it a little detune.

So, will it be then total 2 or 4 OSC and 3 of them detuned differently? How
it is with string machine were they static with their tuning or were there
same kind of tuning problems like in old analog synths, so could there be
use for some free EG detuning as well?

Too bad that I can not get my hands on AN1x until next Wednesday... my
fingers are itching for it now :-( ....

Cheers,
TimoS