Mellotronists

fwiw, chaps, the newer emu "vintage keys" soundset is a big improvement on 
the original vintage/classic keys modules, & is available as a box, a keyboard, 
or as a rom for the proteus box you already have. 
that said, the mellotron sounds are still a bit pony. 
$149 + shipping for the rom gets you about 1,000,000 electric pianos, some 
synths & farfisas, a really bad flute & some not-quite-right strings. don't even 
mention the "brass".

I worked mine up to snuff in a pk6 keyboard (because it's easier to edit on 
than the proteus module family, though they are the same board inside). I used 
a flute sample from the stock emu set, not the "vintage" one. same with the 
brass. & pretty much any string sample takes on a tronny quality if you work on 
it....

but all this is in an earlier e-mail from me on this subject, detailing the 
routing of tiny amounts of pink noise to the amplifier & pitch, heavy use of 
aftertouch to mimic a cmc-10, &&&. 
you'll need to set up an extra, non-pitched layer on the proteus to make the 
whining noise though.... :-)

it's perfectly possible to adopt the same complex mod-routings on any sound 
(& actually, any rompler with good mod capabilities; I did all this with an 
alesis box too) to create a "'tron"-anything. the proteus benefits especially 
from having user-tuning tables & some other random modulation from the keyboard 
(note number) that can be used to great effect on things like filter & 
sample-start point.

don't be tempted to add chorus or layer y'r samples, unless you especially 
want a sound that's not 'tron-like. turn the velocity control right off. disable 
any amplitude enveloping. use the mod wheel to add/remove the 
noise>modulation effects, depending how rough you want y'r pseudo-tron to sound.

all my sampler-imitations of mellotron sounds are either straight off 1098 or 
have gone via 1/4". I am currently engaged in a project to get all of my 9 
tapesets onto flash ram for my proteus modules. so far, the technology has let 
me down. bah. but I will persist, as I want to use samples of MY 'tron, not 
dave kean's or anyone else's. besides, where else can I find the peter baumann 
tapeset or the plucked piano?

duncan/1098 & some emus which I feel like burying in the sand.