[NewMusic] KERCHUNK!! - the birotron -- like a mellotron, but with 8-track cassettes

[Ron Lettuce]

I have a FULL sampled melotron on CD (individual keys every key sampled until the tape runs out...) which reminds me, that it's about time to re-master the CD that it's on so that I don't loose it...Although the one thing that is missing is TRUE POLYPHONY!!! I don't know what has stopped someone from making a computer board that can handle a dozen sound cards (even the 16 bit ones that we think of today as crappy would blow peoples minds if they were used with like 12 in parallel)...All of the modern synths (past the days of the Synclavier) follow the single processor mentality, which inevitably leads to voices cutting out, and latency, no matter how fast the processor is...maybe it's time for EMU to make one (Amar?)...

lettuce


----- Original Message ----
From: weasel walter <weaselw at juno.com>
To: tim at perkis.com; newmusic at music.mills.edu
Cc: newmusic at music.mills.edu
Sent: Monday, October 1, 2007 3:26:49 PM
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] KERCHUNK!! - the birotron -- like a mellotron, but with 8-track cassettes


gotta say that these guerrilla mellotrons miss part of the charm of the
original - i.e. the actual attack on the beginnings of the tapes. most of
these improvised mellotrons seem to operate from the premise of
constantly rolling loops which are keyed on while running in progress.
it's not bad, but the attack just isn't there. 

there are excellent software versions of the mellotron - an old akai
sample disk version and now the killer m-tron front end version. i use
the m-tron all the friggin' time . . . it features prominently on several
tracks of the upcoming flying luttenbachers album out in november.

i always wanted access to a mellotron since i was a teenager and i praise
technology for letting me finally plunder its sonic riches without all
the cost, repairs and trouble! at one point about a decade ago zeek sheck
had a borrowed, bonafide chamberlain at her disposal and i got to do some
recording with it . . . awesome sounding instrument. 

ww 

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:16:06 -0700 Tim Perkis <tim at perkis.com> writes:
> http://www.believermag.com/issues/200706/?read=article_collins


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