The Mellotron Group

Very good question.  The NordWave has Flash Memory 180Mb for user samples.  Isn't that extremely LOW capacity by today's standards?!

You would fill that up quick.  It looks like each unlooped Mellotron or Chamberlin "voice" is about 10 MB... So I guess you would get about 18 voices loaded at one time.



--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "Tron400" <kornowicz@...> wrote:
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> How many different unlooped sounds can be loaded at one time? Can you load the entire Mellotron and Chamberlin libries?
> 
> Bernie
> 
> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "Thomas C. Doncourt" <tomdcour@> wrote:
> >
> > The looped files are much smaller. On the Chamberlin library they give
> > youa choice of looped or unlooped but they didn't do that for the
> > mellotron sounds. The looped sounds use only a fraction of the entire
> > sample.
> > 
> > > Looping? I saw that. I wonder why they would do that. I'm sure that the
> > > Nord Wave will let you do all the looping you want. Why force the issue?
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 4/5/2010 4:13:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > > pocotron@ writes:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all-
> > >    I had to read the info on the Nord site, just to  make sure I didn't
> > > miss something.  It says that the downloadable  samples were taken
> > > directly
> > > from digital masters made from the  master tape library.  No mention is
> > > made of
> > > transfering them to a  Chamberlin (or Mellotron) before sampling, as they
> > > did for the 'Tron  samples.  Of course they would sound clearer!  But
> > > something  is definitely lost in the process if this is true.
> > >    They also looped them!
> > >
> > >    -Bruce D.
> > >
> > >
> > > --- On Mon, 4/5/10, ClayE  <ecclesreinson@ecclesrein> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From:  ClayE <ecclesreinson@ecclesrein>
> > > Subject:  [newmellotrongroup] Re: Anyone else see Chamberlin library for
> > > NordWave?
> > > To: newmellotrongroup@To: newmelloTo:
> > > Date:  Monday, April 5, 2010, 7:31 AM
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This library can be used with the Nord Wave and Nord Electro  3.
> > > Here's the link:
> > > _http://www.clavia. se/main.asp?  tm=Libraries& cllibr=Nord_
> > > Sample_Library& clslib=Chamberli  n_
> > > (http://www.clavia.se/main.asp?tm=Libraries&cllibr=Nord_Sample_Library&clslib=Chamberlin)
> > >
> > > --- In _newmellotrongroup@  yahoogroups. com_
> > > (http://us.mc636.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?toewmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com)
> > > , "Thomas C. Doncourt"
> > > <tomdcour@ .>  wrote:
> > >> A few weeks ago I checked the Clavia site and saw that  tey had released
> > > a comprehensive collection of the Chamberlin library  for the Nord Wave.
> > > It
> > > includes unlooped samples that are less  compressed than the mellotron
> > > ones-
> > > sounds pretty  good!
> > >
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