Mellotronists

"the inside of the case still smells like an old man" - when I read 
that on his website, I laughed my insides out.

Come to think of it, downstairs in the basement of the radio station 
are a handful of old audio consoles left over from the post art 
deco/bakelite era I'd love to see converted into some kind of homemade 
synth/noizemaker. I'd make one with lots of stove/oven styled pointer 
knobs and those kinds of meters that look like the cover of King 
Crimson's "Red" album...y'know a Jules Verne meets Thomas Dolby kind 
of creation.

(I also love his Puerto Rican color scheme.)

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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Charles wrote:

>
> that gizmo got me thinking...could a keyboard be designed that would
> play tracks directly from a CD or DVD? The disc would have tracks
> corresponding to each key on the keyboard with sounds lasting...say one
> minute or more so for a 76 note keyboard you'd have a CD with 76 one
> minute tracks.....each key would activate the laser to read it's
> specific track. There could be many many discs for sound library...and
> man CDs are cheap a CD/DVD Orchestron!!  with no ram/rom to worry about



the problem with that is:
a cd player only has a single laser to read with.
therefore, it could only read one track at a time.

you might be able to use buffers, but you are now getting into the
hardware driver writing arena... and RAM issues.

maybe a "DJ" cd player/mixer might have some of this capability?


...jeff