Mellotronists

Exactly Andy. When I asked Dave about this he told me
that he practically begged Kevin to sample the tron
instead of the masters...of course, arguing that the
sound was, in large part, a product of the machinery. 

In the end, the failure of that sampling application
led MA to produce the Pinder disk and that has been
quite popular. Have you heard the Opitgan disk that he
did? It's a riot! I wish they would hurry up with the
2nd tron/chamberlin CDROM. 

Markus?

Mark.
--- Andy Thompson <andy.thompson@...> wrote:
> 
> ----- 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
> 
> 
> 

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