Mellotronists

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mark kasian" <easle12@...>
To: "John Hofmeyer" <j_hofmeyer@...>; "Mellotronists"
<Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: [Mellotronists] 'Tron hate...


>
> Wrong.
>
> They were samples from the masters that Kean has.
> Project designer was Kevin Monahan with Riley Smith in
> tow. The problem with that box is the VERY limited
> amount of sample memory available and the stretching
> and re-mapping of the samples to fit that chunk of
> real estate. Sounds bad because there's NO bandwidth!
>
> Plus, to make matters worse, they looped the thing.
> Yuk.
>
> A better version is the set that they released for the
> E4...but still not as good as the Pinder disk and not
> really close at all to the real deal....natch.
>
>
> Mark.

Which explains the 'sampled from a tape' story. They were - the masters.
Still sounds like a pile o'poo, though, but the memory/bandwith explanation
makes a lot of sense. Thanks for that one, Mark.

Andy