The Mellotron Group

Awesome retort!!! They do come in so many pretty colors . 

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On Jun 5, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Gary Brumm <gabru@comsec.net> wrote:

> They do build the Macs in a pretty box appealing to the feminine side…..for over function has kept them with a tiny market share over all these years.  Thankfully they were saved by getting
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> rid of their OS and using a version of Free BSN Unix (that isn’t free from Apple) and are now using the Intel platform that Windows has been on forever.  They
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> started making music players and phones I think that is their main product now.  Too bad the IPhone is losing market share.
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> Full Disclosure: I do own an iTouch but haven’t used it since my new Windows Mobile 7 phone has Zune built in (without all of the iPod’s limitations). 
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> Ok….that should set this list on fire for a few weeks and give John a taste of the “fight” he is looking for!  J 
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> We can probably save time by cutting and pasting our comments from past “discussions” as our opinions have not likely changed. 
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> From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John McNamara
> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 7:36 AM
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OK. Here is a tune from the same album
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> ha ha!  keep up the educating of us pc guys, cause i cant get past the front end of a mac .....yet...;)
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> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:32 AM, <fdoddy@aol.com> wrote:
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> My wife allows me to "manipulate it" at least once a day...:>)
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> Thankfully my computer is the servant and works to understand me rather than the opposite  and yes, all the ugly stuff is hidden from me as I am not a programmer, with the exception of being a newbie on Max for Live.  What it does allow me to do is run well over 120 tracks of audio from an 8 year old 1.25ghz x2 G4 without ever freezing. My 8 core at work has let me stream at least 128 tracks of VI's along with gobs of audio, all sprayed heavily with goops of plugins.  If I need a Windows program, well, I just boot it up.  It appears to me that Mr Gates' software runs pretty well on Mr Job's machines, even faster in my very subjective and non-techy view.
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> The battery on my wife's HP laptop runs a long time :>)
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> From: john.mcnamara65 <jfranmac@gmail.com>
> To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
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> Sent: Sun, Jun 5, 2011 9:42 am
> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OK. Here is a tune from the same album
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> So Fritz..... Your computer.....does it allow you to manipulate and understand it, or is all that ugly stuff hidden or locked away from you? ; )
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> > From: John McNamara <jfranmac@...>
> > To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
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> > Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] OK. Here is a tune from the same album
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> > Sorry. I was just hoping for a nasty fight. I will try the aac format, but im not an apple fan. So thats one strike....
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> > There is nothing to fight about….both formats work fine but some people may have to load iTunes 
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> > From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John McNamara
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> > Please fight this out and let me pick through the entrails : )
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> > AAC may sound a bit brighter at lower encoding rates but at higher rates the is little or no difference. The mp3 format is 
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> > From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John McNamara
> > Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 8:41 PM
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> > i'll have to check if audacity/lame supports that. hey, i'll try it...
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> > dump mp3 altogether and go AAC for compressed files. Much sweeter in general than mp3 at any bit rate.
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> > From: John McNamara <jfranmac@...>
> > To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
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> > Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] OK. Here is a tune from the same album
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> > Thank you!. I shouldn't be so afraid of 192..... i just dont want to hear the sizzle of the cymbals like you might get on XM....
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> > Sounds great John. If you lower the resolution of the file you should be able to reduce the file size dramatically 
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> > From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of john.mcnamara65
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> > Couldn't post the full song, because it is 33 megs. But this is half of it. You will hear my Moog Rogue, a Yamaha CP70, a Hammond A100 and leslie and gobs of tron. What you won't hear because of file constraints is my tron through a Leslie. : )
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> > https://sites.google.com/site/mrjaisworld/mp3/Fields.mp3?attredirects=0&d=1
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