20 Jul
2004
20 Jul
'04
11:57 p.m.
Ryan wrote:
The original mellotron had 6 feet of tape played at
7.5 ips (about 9.6
seconds of play per note) with 35 keys that'd be about 5 and a half
minutes of sampled sound... how big would that be?
9.6 seconds per note sounds a bit optimistic, and a bit overly precise!!!
My Mellotron M400 notes typically last between 7-8 seconds, and they're all
slightly different in length!
I must get round to sampling mine some time - I have the following sounds
on two tape racks:
8-Choir
Russian choir
M400 strings
M300 strings
Church organ
Cello
Incidentally, would there be any copyright issues sampling the Mellotron
tapes and redistributing? After all they're recordings like anything else.
Neil
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