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RE: [Mellotronists] Birotron/Orchestro n CDROM?

2003-01-08 by Gene Stopp

Oh yes! Perfect. That looks nice. That definitely did not show up on my
google search.

Uh oh, it's Akai... popular format yes, but a real pain to load into my
Roland. Innit always sumthin' with all this machinery?

Re: orchestron disk wear, don't they sit on a bed of felt as they spin?
Optically accessed yes, but still spinning on something material... you'd
think they would at least "fog up" after hours and hours of being powered
up.

But then again, the scrapes and scratches could be part of the "charm", eh?

Hey maybe if you did have the master transparencies for the disks, you could
make some "expendable" copies, and lay them down in the street, and jump up
and down on them a bit, and then play them to get that kewl retro scratched
record sound out of your Orchestron!?!?

Best Regards,

- Gene

M400S #1023
M400S #1213
M400S #1289

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From: FDoddy@... [mailto:FDoddy@...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 2:24 PM
To: gene@...; Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Mellotronists]  Birotron/Orchestron CDROM?

Go to optigan.com.  Pea Hix sells a cd rom in Akai format (ChickenSys'
Translator program can convert it to another format if you need it) that
features all the sounds of the Optigan, Orchestron and Talentmaker.  The
disks are optically read so there is really no wear, although they sound
quite "charming" right out of the box.  i bought an optigan and its a piece
of crap.

fritz

RE: [Mellotronists] Birotron/Orchestro n CDROM?

2003-01-10 by Pishock, Jimmy

I second the notion :  "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots" IS the album of the
year.  Even better than the preceding album, "The Soft Bulletin", which was
a tough act to follow.  Another decent album that came out last year was
Wilco "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot".  Both have Tron on them.

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Rich wrote
    Is there, or is there not a CD-ROM for the blasted intruments?

 Fritz replies:   
     That would make a great sampling cd.  Take a tron, blast the crap out
of it, record it sample it and put it out as the new Sum 41 album. God. am I
tired of bands that imitate Green day, who imitate the Clash.
   Hey, just so you Brits know, I don't know anyone here in the States,
conservatives and liberals, who wants this goddamn war.  Some democrats have
even talked about reinstating the Draft. Are they nuts?!!  Sadam Husein is
nuts but so is my mother-in-law.
   The Flaming Lips'  "Yoshimi battles the pink robots" gets my vote for
album of the year and it even has tron in it.
   I also can't stand "the White stripes"
    I got a new travel mug for christmas
   Mike Dickinson is a cutey-pie

Fritz


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