Thanks for breaking down the Mellowtron features!! I may want to try
myself. I am trying to recall examples of Mellotron. I think the
following are examples (can anyone confirm?):

--Heavy opening chords from "In the Court of the Crimson King" (Or
whatever the title of it was.)
--little filler in between verses of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
(starting at lower octave and more up each time.

Any others examples?

Question was the ever-so-slight pitch/filter oscillation consistent
or did it have variation possibly from from the wearing/stretching of
the tape?

Also, I am wondering which of the filter types and specific settings
would give the best results?

--Steve



--- In XL-1@yahoogroups.com, "nigelvintage" <baron_de@...> wrote:
>
>
> two things about the mellotron to remember:
>
> one is that it is tapes of real instruments, played back out of
tune
> and in very poor fidelity
>
> the second is that the original mellotron tapes used through the
60s
> and 70s are SO familiar from all the records we hear them on.
>
> the second point really needs the proper Vintage ROM as the samples
> are dervived from a real tron.
>
> but the first point is easy enough - take any flute / string /
choir
> sample and filter it way down (apparently the 'tron had a bandwisth
> of 8Khz!), then put a random lfo through a lag genertor to
> constantly vary the pitch only 'just' detectably, then take one of
> the random generators and add to the initial pitch, so that every
> note starts slightly differently... again, only 'just' detectably.
>
> post how you get on!
>