The Mellotron Group

In, say, 1986 I would have never predicted that there would be two
companies grappling over the name Mellotron!

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> Clay.
> All 100 voices seem to have the extra 2 notes. If there is any pitch
> shifting going on it's been well implemented. Markus did say that some had
> the extra notes recorded but never used till now. But I would guess some
> but not all.
> Interesting that m300 strings A and B are available as 2 separate voices,
> lower register and higher, so you get everything!
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> Andy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ClayE <ecclesreinson@rogers.com>
> To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 16:50
> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: M4000 D
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> Thanks for posting the pics Andy. Do all 100 voices have the low F and F#
> ? Do some of them sound pitch shifted? I wouldn't think that he would have
> recordings of those notes for all 100 voices.
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> The two additional notes may not seem like a big deal, but when you need
> them, you need them. Sometimes the middle F just will not do it!
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> Clay
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> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Andy kinch <kinchmusic@...>
> wrote:
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>> For those interested, I've added some pics to the members area.
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>> Andy K
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fdoddy <fdoddy@...>
>> To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 17:23
>> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: M4000 D
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>> I missed the sampling rate on first read. 22.05 Fs is unacceptable. I'd
>> rather sample at a lower bit rate than sacrifice sampling frequency.
>> Remember the old Roland samplers? They were only 12bit ...don't know if
>> they ever went to 16, but they sounded great...it's all about the
>> oversampling filters.
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>> fritz
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tron400 <tron400@...>
>> To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Sat, Sep 3, 2011 8:20 am
>> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: M4000 D
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>> Most commercial sample sets are 44 K.
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>> Bernie
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>> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, john barrick <barrickjohn262@>
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>> > It's surprising that it's that low - I worked in television for about
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>> > years and we were doing most of our audio at 44 K.
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>> > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:23 PM, tron400 <tron400@> wrote:
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>> > > But does batch-converting 16 bit to 24 bit improve the sound? I
>> would think
>> > > that resampling would be necessary. Also the Pinder samples were
>> sampled at
>> > > 22,050 Hz. There's lots of room for improvement there.
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>> > > Bernie
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>> > > --
>> > john barrick
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>> > *Leo got it right the first time*
>> > *then he added a second pickup and got it righter*
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>> I missed the sampling rate on first read. 22.05 Fs is unacceptable. I'd
>> rather sample at a lower bit rate than sacrifice sampling frequency.
>> Remember the old Roland samplers? They were only 12bit ...don't know if
>> they ever went to 16, but they sounded great...it's all about the
>> oversampling filters.
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>> fritz
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tron400 <tron400@...>
>> To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Sat, Sep 3, 2011 8:20 am
>> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: M4000 D
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>> Most commercial sample sets are 44 K.
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>> Bernie
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>> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, john barrick <barrickjohn262@>
>> wrote:
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>> > It's surprising that it's that low - I worked in television for about
>> 20
>> > years and we were doing most of our audio at 44 K.
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>> > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:23 PM, tron400 <tron400@> wrote:
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>> > > But does batch-converting 16 bit to 24 bit improve the sound? I
>> would think
>> > > that resampling would be necessary. Also the Pinder samples were
>> sampled at
>> > > 22,050 Hz. There's lots of room for improvement there.
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>> > > Bernie
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>> > > --
>> > john barrick
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>> > *Leo got it right the first time*
>> > *then he added a second pickup and got it righter*
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