Mellotronists

>I had a sudden and nearly painful burst of inspiration I'd like to 

>share with you all!  Some of you may have noted that I have a lot of 

>fun programming my beloved little Korg X5D synths with homebrewed 

>Mellotron patches, with compulsive attention to detail.  

 

>Well, sitting in my car and listening to the original, I suddenly 

>remembered that my Korgs have several preset scale temperaments and 

>even have a user-defined scale memory slot.

 

Hi!

 

I have used the Korg 05R/r (module version of X5) to do the same thing,

complete with random on the pitch. However I have never thought about 

using the other scales. But it sounds like a really good idea. Just 

one thing; the scales are a global property, so a change of the scale

will affect all programs and combis, right? Not too convenient if you

also use other sounds that those deliberately tuned weird as I do. 

Apart from my X5otrons, I also have a pretty cool Rhodes sound - incl.

tremolo and slight distortion - a CP80 electric grand, a symphonizer,

and many others like these that I use a lot. Even a Cantebury fuzz
organ!

 

Then, I use an ancient Win95 laptop to control my patches, and maybe 

this is enough to change scaling flexibly enough.

 

Would you like to exchange patches? I would love to hear your stab at

tron sounds on the mighty Korg X5.

 

Cheers

 

Frank Carvalho

M400 #160