\ufffdThe Mellotron offers all kinds of characteristics unobtainable anywhere else\ufffdbecause the sound is coming from a tape, and\ufffdthe tape has\ufffdphysical movement and each mechanism under the key responds differently when playing a chord or a\ufffdsingle note.
Kind of. That sounds is obtainable elsewhere because it is possible to sample it and replay it. What you won't get is any variance from that particular event.
If you play just one single note from the Mellotron strings, especially a high note,\ufffd you might\ufffdmistake it for real strings.
I don't think I have ever thought they were real strings. To me it sounds like a Mellotron. This sort of cuts to the heart of what I'm trying to say. The old sounds sound like a Mellotron whereas the newer ones don't, just because no one associates\ufffd them with the instrument. Hence, is it a waste of time Streetly making new sounds?
I think if all the\ufffdsounds we have now were available back then,\ufffdyou would have heard Pinder, Banks, Wakeman\ufffdetc.\ufffdusing them.
Undoubtedly. The choir was new once, and everyone seemed to leap onto that straight away.
Mike