20 Jul
2004
20 Jul
'04
10:32 p.m.
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 15:38 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
Ryan wrote:
Well obviously you're not playing a mellotron... if you're not playing a
mellotron ;-)
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?
Anyway I wouldn't want to emulate the experience of playing a mellotron
(a software emulation of tape breaking anyone). Maybe if we ask really
really nicely Emiliano's friend will re-sample the mellotron.
-ry
It should be really easy to come up with a great
mellotron sample set
(since it's essentially a sampled instrument). But I think having a
nice long keypress (4 seconds) would make it much easier.
Hi,
Just as a point of reference the original Mellotron had 8 second
tapes, I believe. Also, when those tapes ran out there was no loop. You
get to the end of the tape and you just get no more sound. Playing a
Mellotron is an experience in learning to manage this by letting go of
individual keys in a chord and replaying them so that you don't have the
whole chord go away abruptly.
Anyway, if you create loops from Mellotron samples you're no longer
playing a Mellotron! ;-)