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

[barry threw]

There is no more EMU.

b

On Oct 1, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Ron Lettuce wrote:

> 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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