Brainstorm, brainfart - they're almost the same thing...
2002-03-22 by JS
Just when you thought I'd shut up-
Isn't part of the way that the '3 violins/8voice
choir/flute' become the "standard" Mellotron lexicon the fact that they
were for the most part,offered as original standard equipment? It
seems to me that aside of firing up bigtime production making a couple thousand
new machines loaded with tapes of new sounds, the best way to inspire
the use of new Mellotron sounds is to create a NEW classic set - maybe something
along the lines of what I was thinking of earlier, perhaps a 'mixed
strings/Russian choir/Ian McDonald flute' set, and offer them at a steep
discount to all of the known Mellotronists in the world in order to be able
to pump a lot of them into circulation in a short period of time. Put
enough of them in circulation reasonably simultaneously, and you have formed a
new standard soundset, and also educate a lot of people to the concept that the
Mellotron is a SAMPLE PLAYBACK unit, not just a retro sound generator. By
keeping to timbres somewhat reminiscent of the primary set, people will be able
to substitute new sounds for the traditional soundset in already existing music,
and it will certainly spark an abundance of late-night creativity with the new
soundset. It would also encourage more Mellotronists to be more open
to a new mindset, that of using an M400 for more than just three
sounds.
Just a thought...
...but if you use it, I expect a free
frame!