Mellotronists

-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Reid [mailto:gordon@...]
Sent: 09 July 2003 15:57
To: feline1@...; Michael Peters;
Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] yes tour


Gordon


>but Rick Wakeman murdering all the keyboard part using crap
>digital preset sounds was more of a No than a Yes

How do you know that they were presets (by which, I assume, you mean
factory programmed patches)?

How do you know that Rick didn't programme the sounds himself?

How do you know that they were all generated digitally?

Why am I bothering to send this?

Why did I resubscribe to this forum?

Oh yes... and ...  correct me, but doesn't a Mellotron doesn't play
preset sounds???


Why give the guy a hard time? Rick's keyboard sounds were (largely) crap,
although he was the star of the show. You know there's plenty of us who
aren't over-keen on the majority of modern
digital/sample-based/pseudo-analogue keyboard sounds - that's why we own
Mellotrons.

Andy T.
M400 #1145

'The Ultimate Mellotron Recordings List (Possibly)'

http://freespace.virgin.net/andy.thompson/