Mellotronists

my Emu E4K has 76 keys and you can just load in the Pinder CD M300 A 
& B and assign the keyboard zones appropriately and you have the 
full spread. So get a 76 or 88 note controller.




--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, MAinPsych@... wrote:
>
>  
> In a message dated 12/8/2006 8:01:25 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
> mellotronmadness@... writes:
> 
> Hi, I  just want to sound like Woolly Wolstenholme (Barclay James 
Harvest  )
> without actually having to buy an M300.  I've got the M-Tron but 
it  doesn't 
> sound remotely like, either M300 strings or M300 violins ( the 
only  M-Tron 
> voices I like are the cello, saxophone, boys choir and clarinet,  
generally it's 
> quite disappointing)   As I understand it Woolly  never changed 
banks on his 
> M300, I assume he could only mix one other sound  with strings 
which I
> believe were M300a.  I could be persuaded to buy  the Mellotron CD 
and a 
> software sampler. Could that provide something close? I  only play 
for my own 
> amusement and to inflict pain on others, so near enough  would do.
> I've looked at the Kontackt and Vsampler, how much memory do  these
> things need to perform? Thanks, Mark
> PS These days with Maestoso  he has an M400 with remastered 
strings but
> they don't sound as good.
> PPS  I am not trying to restart the samples vs real thing  debate!
> 
> 
> 
> Hi, Mark.
>  
> I have the Pinder/Mellotron CD, run through an AKAI CD3000i  
sampler, and 
> quickly discovered that the M300 samples are 300A strings from  
approx. notes 
> 1-19, and then shifts an octave down with M300B strings from  
approx. notes 20-35 
> (it may be the other way around, but I haven't used the disc  for 
a long 
> time).  It makes for some interesting voicings with that  
combination across the 
> keys, but frustrating when you want one over the other  across the 
keyboard.  
> Do I have an aberrent disc, or are they all like  this?  At least 
I have a tape 
> frame for my 400 with M300A strings/IM,  Flute/M300B strings, and 
the same 
> combination on Station 1, RH side of my MkII,  but then I am a 
lucky S.O.B.
>  
> Frank Samagaio
> San Diego CA
> MkII #134 (Pindertron) / M400 3908
> author, The Mellotron  Book
>