Mellotron

[montage]

What's your setup/recipe for approximating the sound of a mellotron?

 

[ssscientist]

Download the wav samples here, then google yourself a shareware wav file player.


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[montage]

So you just drop the wavs into an editor (a la Cakewalk Sonar)?

 

[Alexbt]

I have the Classic Keys ROM installed in my Kurzweil PC2R.

 

[hollywoodending]

I use the m-tron soft synth.

really good emulation

 

[Gamelan]

I use a custom proteus patch derived from hours of A/B tweaking. More flexible than a sample and sounds great.

 

[ssscientist]

I use a custom proteus patch derived from hours of A/B tweaking. More flexible than a sample and sounds great.

Care to post that patch so others can admire your handywork?

 

[Nakatira]

here`s a nice one http://www.kvraudio.com/get/352.html

 

[Nakatira]

and here http://www.tweakbench.com/instruments.php?id=6

I used a thing called google

anyways I`ve used the first one a lot, just add some verb to it and it shines like Crimsons Starless

 

[montage]

I used a thing called google

I will too someday, but I was curious what fellow members were doing.

Thanks for the responses, keep 'em coming!

 

[MadAudio]

Wow, I need to check some of this stuff out! I've always liked the Mellotron sound, but never knew there were patches etc. to emulate it.

To hear Robert Fripp talk about the original instrument, it was the biggest pain in the ass ever.

 

[c7sus]

I bought the MTron. It sounds like cheesey cassette samples, complete with hiss and artifacts. It was probably a fun parlour instrument in the late 50's. Taking one on the road must have been a hall-o-fame PITA.

I think part of the "sound" was the detuning caused by the motors.

There's a video on the web of RickWakeman talking about burning a couple in his back yard. Said he wished he still had them, they coulda paid for his divorce!

 

[ssscientist]

in the late 50's.

Try the late sixties.

Strawberry Fields Forever was the first hit record to feature the Mellotron and it came out in 1967.

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[montage]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron

 

[ofajen]

just bought M-Tron. i'll let you know what i think once i try it out some.

Cheers,

Otto

 

[peopleperson]

I have M-Tron as well. For being an emulation, I really like the sounds in it a lot.

 

[ofajen]

just bought M-Tron. i'll let you know what i think once i try it out some.

Cheers,

Otto

Love the sounds, but now I want to be able to tweak parameters like pitch, tone, volume, attack and release from real knobs while I'm playing. I guess I need some kind of controller for that. Anyone have recomendations on a good controller to do this kind of tweaking? Can the same type of controller also help me out with pans, fades and plug-in or device parameters within Live 6?

Thanks!

Otto

 

[lbanks]

Wow, I need to check some of this stuff out! I've always liked the Mellotron sound, but never knew there were patches etc. to emulate it.

To hear Robert Fripp talk about the original instrument, it was the biggest pain in the ass ever.

I played with a guy who had one... it was. I think it made him quit playing.

 

[montage]

for the old schoolers....

www.mellotron.com

 

[Flux]

Samples are the way to go, after all Mellotrons were the original samplers.