Mellotron_G2

G2egory

I needed a mellotron to be able to play progressive rock from the early 70s so I built this synthetic one. I combined Jim Johnson's fine "Mellochoir" patch with a "Symphony" patch and made modifications such as adding another choir voice and a compressor. If you play the keyboard softly, you only hear the choir voices. I have attached a mp3 file of the patch playing brief fragments of the mellotron-rich songs "In the Court of the Crimson King" and "Knights in White Satin".

Variation 1: Mellotron
Variation 2: Voices Only
Variation 3: Orchestra only
Variation 4: Why didn't they tell us about them

Hope you like it.
Gregory

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blue hell · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject:

Sounds very King Crimson to me, there might be a tiny but too much resonance that makes it sound a littlle glass like - otoh my records are pretty worn out so I can't really tell Very Happy

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:15 pm Post subject:

I don´t think it sounds much like any of the mellotron tape sets I know of, but it is a wonderful patch! Great work!

A great alternative to a real Mellotron is the M-Tron ( http://www.gmediamusic.com/gforce/m-tron/M-Tron.html ).

v-un-v · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:38 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:51 am Post subject:

The Optigan!!!! YEAH!

More stuff here: http://www.roth-handle.nu/instruments/replay_optigan.htm

v-un-v · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:43 am Post subject:

Now is this just crazy or what? Pretty much right at the time that I was posting a response to this thread earlier, THIS was being broadcast on BBC Radio 4!! Shocked

Spooky or what?!! Shocked

G2egory · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:42 am Post subject:

Thanks for your kind comments and that BBC radio link to the Mellotron History program. It was a lot of fun to listen to the program, especially to the Moody Blues keyboardist talking about how he used the tape pitch knob to get the swirling 60s psychedelic sound on the mellotron. The pitch stick on the Clavia G2 seems to be able to accomplish some of that formerly "chemically-assisted" effect.
I'll look at reducing the resonance a bit to see if I can make the sound warmer. The M-audio midi software version of the mellotron is what spurred me on to try to make one on my G2X. There are some excellent flute patches for the G2 that can be used to mimic the mellotron's flute but none that I could find that combined choir voices with detuned strings, so I made mine.

v-un-v · Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:32 am Post subject:

You may like to check out my Solina patch I did for the Nord Micromodular. I managed to squeeze 6 note polyphony from that. You'll find them under the file named 'terryfunken'