[linux-audio-user] Re: Mellotron sounds

Good to hear more people are interested in the matter. It looks like the legal way to have the Mellotron samples is to re-create the sounds. Remember that the particular tapes were re-mastered. The copyright is as new as the re-masters. (But Project Gutenberg list had a posting on a recent court case which could indicate different.) BTW, we already could create a nice set of similar sounds using physical modeling and the like. Nord Modular has good patches freely available. How important it is to have the original Mellotron sounds? Mellotron is well known from songs like White Satin (by who?) but the guy recorded his own violin sounds. Why would we be happy with the factory sounds if he was not? I will put together a collection of papers after the summer heat has cooled down. Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software