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Status: Single
City: Kenmore
State: New York
Country: US
Signup Date: 9/25/2005

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 

Category: Music

On tonight's menu, we have a new project. Last night, after beating my head against the MIDI controller trying to come up with chords to the ridiculous guitar riff I invented, I loaded up my old chestnut "Nothing at the Moment" and added the required Mellotron choir part that is required to make the song complete. This tune was written in 1981 and I used the same Ovation nylon string and ARP Axxe parts as the origional. The choir back then was played on an Orchestron, which I'll maybe talk about sometime. Obviously I don't have a real Mellotron, but the G-Force M-Tron VST works nicely.

Now I'm off to the Emu XL-7 for some fun.

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Plankspanker

 

I haven't tried the Mellosofttron, but having one Mellotron emulator is enough. The thing that's great about the M-Tron is the incredible number of banks of sounds-real honest to goodness Mellotron samples! I love Mellotrons because they just cut through everything. I think it's that little bit of noise and dodgy tuning that makes them stand out. Besides all that, the sound just brings back memories of my wasted (and I do mean wasted!) youth.

Thanks for the comment! I hope to hear back from you!

Robert


 
Posted by Plankspanker on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - 1:26 AM
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