The Mellotron Group

 

Went to see the band do a warm up gig for the world tour at Friars Aylesbury last night. They appear to be using the Nord Mellotron library to good effect. There was quite a bit of early material played including Starless, Epitaph, 21st CSM and ITCOTCK.

I have to say that in a live situation, the Nord stood its ground pretty well. There's a quite a decent EQ on the instrument as well as some pretty good amp and effect simulations, enough to fool most people I would think. And during those early songs it was well up in the mix, and I'm pretty certain it created enough of a 1969 vibe to send the audience home on a significant high.

 

AK

 

Andy Kinch
kinchmusic@aol.com

 

Hi Andy

They were using the M3000 iPad app and also have two Memotron racks!

Best

Martin

Mellotronics.com

1963 - 2015  52 years of mellotrons

On 2 Sep 2015, at 10:51, Andy Kinch kinchmusic@aol.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Went to see the band do a warm up gig for the world tour at Friars Aylesbury last night. They appear to be using the Nord Mellotron library to good effect. There was quite a bit of early material played including Starless, Epitaph, 21st CSM and ITCOTCK.

I have to say that in a live situation, the Nord stood its ground pretty well. There's a quite a decent EQ on the instrument as well as some pretty good amp and effect simulations, enough to fool most people I would think. And during those early songs it was well up in the mix, and I'm pretty certain it created enough of a 1969 vibe to send the audience home on a significant high.

 

AK

 

Andy Kinch
kinchmusic@aol.com

 

I wonder how they were utilizing the ipad. Controlling it externally?how do you do that?

On Sat, 9/5/15, Tom Doncourt tomdcour@amnh.org [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] King Crimson
To: "newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com" <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Saturday, September 5, 2015, 10:46 PM


The samples on the M3000 are much better




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This sounds abit like a "bleeding edge"
solution. What is the benefit besides compactness? It seems
the ipad has serious power issues. When i played live i used
an M Audio usb keyboard and had all my vst synths controlled
through a piece of software called
Live (professor?) or something like that. There is a vst
called "Redtron" which sounds fabulous. This setup
had some issues but sleeping screens and power run-down
wasn't one.



















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I can only take some wild guesses. As far as I know, the Streetly collections for M-Tron Pro and the Memotron are the same, but in different formats. I think the M3000 samples are probably the same, but maybe half or quarter the sampling rate to make the files smaller. After all, it doesn't make much sense to sample the same Mellotron three times for three different applications when you can just manipulate the same samples.

Bernie

All three sound much more authentic than the sterilised Scandanavian effort. And that is from people who have tried the digital quartet in on offer.

Best

M

Mellotronics.com

1963 - 2015  52 years of mellotrons

On 6 Sep 2015, at 11:23, tron400@yahoo.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

I can only take some wild guesses. As far as I know, the Streetly collections for M-Tron Pro and the Memotron are the same, but in different formats. I think the M3000 samples are probably the same, but maybe half or quarter the sampling rate to make the files smaller. After all, it doesn't make much sense to sample the same Mellotron three times for three different applications when you can just manipulate the same samples.

Bernie

----- Original Message -----

From: Martin tronbros@aol.com [newmellotrongroup]

To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2015 2:02 PM

Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: M3000

 

p.s. forget about the'in'!

Mellotronics.com

1963 - 2015  52 years of mellotrons

On 6 Sep 2015, at 14:00, Martin <tronbros@aol.com> wrote:

All three sound much more authentic than the sterilised Scandanavian effort. And that is from people who have tried the digital quartet in on offer.

Best

M

Mellotronics.com

1963 - 2015  52 years of mellotrons

On 6 Sep 2015, at 11:23, tron400@yahoo.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

I can only take some wild guesses. As far as I know, the Streetly collections for M-Tron Pro and the Memotron are the same, but in different formats. I think the M3000 samples are probably the same, but maybe half or quarter the sampling rate to make the files smaller. After all, it doesn't make much sense to sample the same Mellotron three times for three different applications when you can just manipulate the same samples.

Bernie

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