30 Jun
2005
30 Jun
'05
8:36 a.m.
James Stone wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:24:57 +0100, Neil Durant
wrote:
There is some difference in sound depending on pressure, but I'm not sure
it's a desirable difference. Generally speaking, if you play the note
properly, it sounds good, if you play it harder there's no noticable
difference, and if you play it softer the sound starts to fade out and
break up, as the head gets further from the tape.
I'd be happy to sample the full lengths of all 35 notes for all six sounds,
storing them as wavs. I don't have a lot of spare time these days, so I'll
let someone else have the pleasure of cropping/editing!
I wonder what the legal situation is regarding making soundfonts of these
recorded sounds...anyone know?
Neil
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Neil Durant
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Brett McCoy wrote:
If you are willing to provide full length samples of these, I would love
to put a soundfont together. I think there is some difference in sound
depending on pressure as well? Perhaps a layered font would be a good idea. A little while back there was a thread about
building Mellotron sound
fonts, but all the links posted in that thread are dead (searched via
Google). Does anyone know where these might be found? I've got this
great Mellotron VST plugin but it flat out refuses to work under any of
the Linux VST compatibility libraries (and the standalone version loads
under Wine, but it requires ASIO to produce any sound), so am looking
for something that will work under Linux.
Let me know if I can be of assistance, if you need raw Mellotron sounds.
I own a Mellotron M400, with new remasters of the following tapes:
8-choir
M300 strings
Cello
Mk-II strings
Russian Choir
Church Organ