I immediately thought: Moody Blues, Yes, Zeppelin and Orchestral
Manoeuvres in the Dark. There's a good list at:

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

Keith

--- In XL-1@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@...>
wrote:
>
> 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!
> >
>