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>       1. Texas Plates
>            From: "zappatx" <mellotron@...>
>       2. Re: Texas Plates
>            From: Jerry Korb <jkorb@...>
>       3. Re: Texas Plates
>            From: Rick Blechta <rick@...>
>       4. ReGenesis
>            From: "Paul Marshall" <paulm@...>
>       5. Fw: ReGenesis
>            From: "JS" <jonesalley@...>
>       6. ReGenesis
>            From: kinchmusic@...
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> Message: 1
>    Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 17:48:35 -0000
>    From: "zappatx" <mellotron@...>
> Subject: Texas Plates
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> Hi everyone. i changed my profile from Vairtex to Zappatx (M400 #997)
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> Anyway I have my new MINI Cooper S and for the license plates I can
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> use 6 digits... I'm trying to decide MELTRN, MLOTRON, MELOTN or 
> perhaps "Crimso"???
> Ches
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> Message: 2
>    Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 14:14:03 -0400
>    From: Jerry Korb <jkorb@...>
> Subject: Re: Texas Plates
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> zappatx wrote:
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> > Hi everyone. i changed my profile from Vairtex to Zappatx (M400 #997)
> > Anyway I have my new MINI Cooper S and for the license plates I can
> > use 6 digits... I'm trying to decide MELTRN, MLOTRON, MELOTN or
> > perhaps "Crimso"???            Ches
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> Hi Ches, Hope you and your gear are high and dry after the soaking
> floods in TX. Hill Country....Anyway, from my perpective, "MLOTRN"
> would be the easiest to read/pronounce phonetically.
> 
> 'Ya also gotta have an Austin Powers sticker on the car somewhere.....
> Perhaps you should also heist a lg. VOLVO logo from truck(lorrie).
> Happens to be the male gender symbol....Hmmm,wonder how Volvo
> decided on that one,eh?.....
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> Cheers, Jerry K. (standing-by to commence restoration on MK1 "Julia")
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> Message: 3
>    Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 16:00:57 -0400
>    From: Rick Blechta <rick@...>
> Subject: Re: Texas Plates
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> Ah, Ches... none of your choices has any digits... (thought I'd point
> that out before Dickson does in his usually sardonic manner)
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> How about MARTIN? Except everyone would think it runs on beer.
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> zappatx wrote:
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> >  Hi everyone. i changed my profile from Vairtex to Zappatx (M400
> #997)
> >
> > Anyway I have my new MINI Cooper S and for the license plates I can
> > use 6 digits... I'm trying to decide MELTRN, MLOTRON, MELOTN or
> > perhaps "Crimso"???
> > Ches
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> Message: 4
>    Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 23:26:20 +0100
>    From: "Paul Marshall" <paulm@...>
> Subject: ReGenesis
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> Evening all,
> 
> Saw ReGenesis at Sheffield Boardwalk last night doing 'The Lamb...',
> good
> but IMHO not as good as The Mus... no, let's not open that can of worms
> again.
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> Thought I'd ask what their keyboard player does for Mellotron sounds
> -
> anybody know? His setup was Kurzweil K2000, Hammond XB-1, Korg X3 and
> Roland
> JV-1080 but there were passable (in fact, pretty damn passable)
> Flute/3Vln/8Choir sounds in all the right places). Could be samples
> loaded
> into the K2000? (I do the same with an Akai S2000 'cos I'm afraid to
> take
> M400 out of his cosy corner :o)
> 
> Regards
> Paul Marshall
> M400 #1380
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> Message: 5
>    Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 17:56:06 -0500
>    From: "JS" <jonesalley@...>
> Subject: Fw: ReGenesis
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> Although I'm a dedicated Korg player, if I recall correctly the JV-1080
> series had a "Vintage Keyboards" card available that Keyboard magazine
> praised highly.  I would also imagine that the K2000 could make use
> of many
> of the Mellotron libraries that are available as well, so it would
> seem to
> me to be a toss-up between the two, although I'd suspect the Roland
> to be a
> bit more likely as the source of the sounds.  One way or the other,
> if the
> player has the common sense (oxymoron?) to play "Mellotronistically,"
> i.e.,
> keeping within the note range of the instrument, obeying the 8-second
> duration limit, and avoiding things like touch sensitivity and modulation
> effects, it is very possible to come up with the feel and sonic sense
> of the
> real thing.  I have some of the most incredibly realistic "Mellotron"
> patches that I've written for my little Korg X5D's (you have to hear
> my
> arrangements for "Nights in White Satin,"  "Strawberry Fields Forever,"
> "Epitaph," and "Court of the Crimson King" to believe it!) and that
> instrument has NO facility for importing samples. I am using strictly
> the
> built-in waveforms, and emulating as many of the idiosyncrasies of
> the
> Mellotron as is possible, particularly the ones mentioned above.
> 
> Jon E Salley
> MiloJohnson@...
> M400 #886
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Marshall" <paulm@...>
> To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 5:26 PM
> Subject: [Mellotronists] ReGenesis
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> > Thought I'd ask what their keyboard player does for Mellotron sounds
> -
> > anybody know? His setup was Kurzweil K2000, Hammond XB-1, Korg X3
> and
> Roland
> > JV-1080 but there were passable (in fact, pretty damn passable)
> > Flute/3Vln/8Choir sounds in all the right places). Could be samples
> loaded
> > into the K2000? (I do the same with an Akai S2000 'cos I'm afraid
> to take
> > M400 out of his cosy corner :o)
> >
> > Regards
> > Paul Marshall
> > M400 #1380
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> Message: 6
>    Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 19:35:21 EDT
>    From: kinchmusic@...
> Subject: ReGenesis
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> I can vouch for the quality of the Roland JV vintage card. The 3 violins
> and 
> flute are most convincing. It seems strange though playing the flutes
> and not 
> hearing that wretched top D! The choir is OK in only certain areas
> of the 
> keyboard, as it suffers the effects of pitch shifting due to the lack
> of 
> multi sampling. Making direct comparisons between the Roland and my
> EMI 
> tron.The tron definitely has more grunt, with each note having a character
> 
> slightly different from the notes either side of it.-Nice!
> However, if I were gigging I would be tempted to use the Roland because
> it's 
> just so close,(particularly with a bit of upper-mid boost) and by the
> time 
> the sound has been buried beneath everyone else in the band, no-one,
> apart 
> perhaps from one or two on the list here wouldn't complain. Anyway,
> I 
> wouldn't want to risk damaging my prized keyboard.
> Andy Kinch M400 EMI #1405
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