Mellotronists

In a message dated 07/10/2006 04:17:16 GMT Daylight Time, kornowicz@...  
writes:

Both the  Voltkitchen MinimogueVA and Arrpe2600VA are exceptional free 
VSTi's; as  good as any of the commercial versions.



I'll give them a go but my experience of many of the plug ins available is  
that they often miss small but important details of the original. In the case 
of  the MiniMoog it is often the odd behaviour of the envelopes that go 
unnoticed  they are ADSD (three controls Attack Decay Sustain, with Decay being used 
for  initial Decay and Release). The envelopes also do not reset to zero so 
with the  right settings a pseudo touch sensitivity can be obtained. One 
expensive plug in  I tried didn't even come close!
 
I sometimes wonder if some (not all) plug in producers have ever used  the 
instruments they are trying to emulate...
 
Norm