martedì, 20 luglio 2004 alle 17:28:56, Joachim Schiele ha scritto: Thanks to Juhana Sadeharju now the samples are available here: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/incoming/audio/ I've put the whole mellotron file (flac encoded, i didn't realize that it would have compress so much the file), and I've added the rhodes soundfont too. Unfortunately, yesterday on #lad ryanpg told me that the samples are too short to make good loops, but if someone wants to try nevertheless... I've put also an experimental hydrogen multi-layered drumkit that I've sampled myself. For using it you need hydrogen from cvs. If someone is interested also in the single wav files (ops... flac files), I can put a tarball there. Thanks to all that responded, I hope that we should end out with a good mellotron patch... You are obviously free and encouraged to modify and improve also the rhodes soundfont and the drumkit. Cheers, -- Emiliano Grilli Linux user #209089 http://www.emillo.net

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 22:39 +0200, Emiliano Grilli wrote: It's not *impossible* I bet someone with a lot of patience could set some reasonable loop points. The mellotron is a neat sounding instrument, I'd be really excited to have digital copies of the original tape loops. But each of these key presses is about a minute long and the mellotron has a real "dynamic" sound so getting a loop that doesn't sound like a "broken record" or abrupt buzz will be hard. 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. Here's a link I found where some mellotron samples are offered for download along with suggested loop points. Good starting point. Good luck for whoever get's this sample set put together, it'd be great to have! Thanks for posting them Emiliano. http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/aphex/113/strings.html -ry

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 15:38 -0700, Mark Knecht 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

Ryan, It would be nice if you could serve to this from other applications... That way you could just define a clip or selection on whatever timeline you happen to be using and send it to the Mellotron emulation for further processing {which you could write back to the timeline or to disk or simply play in the Mellotron.} ... This message has been brought to you in part by a grant from Columba.

Mark Knecht wrote: Kinda pricey... but might be well worth it if I can give up trying to get the M-Tron VST to work. -- Brett -- Rule of Feline Frustration: When your cat has fallen asleep on your lap and looks utterly content and adorable, you will suddenly have to go to the bathroom.