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Montana25

mellotron patches?

Post by Montana25 »

Any talented folks out there put together any mellotron patches for the Triton?

Thanks.
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I created some Mellotron emulations for the Triton in the Enigma I set I submitted to the download section (not to be confused with the Enigmatic Collection). They aren't genuine Mellotron samples, but I got some positive feedback from people who downloaded them.....if you haven't tried them out, give it a shot.

Lots of other vintage synth & keyboard emulations in that collection as well. 8)
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Post by Lorenzo »

Hi, Synthoid patches sounds good... even if I never tried a real mellotron I worked on the hollowsun mellotron samples... take part of the hollowsun pool and you'll have great mellotron sounds!
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Attention Mellotron fans. I did this patch on the new TR61. I'm not sure if the layout is like the Triton Classic. I've been messing around with Tron patches for years, I also have a good sounding tron in my old Korg X5's, we use the patches in our Moody Blues covers in the band and the people actually notice the keyboardists in the band use what sounds like like "mellotrons" good sign if a bar band follower says that. Why waste your money on the $200 CD's and "Mellotron Samples" out there. The trick to the mellotron sound isn't neccesarilly in the sample, in fact the triton already has the sounds! The "mellotron" signature sound is in the effects, lousy pitch, attack and some grit and reverb in the amplification. They actually had an amp built into them.
Try taking Prog. A19 "Tape Strings" and changing the ROMS. Make OSC1 #String ENS REV pitch 8" OSC2 ana strings REV pitch 16". Change the attack on the 2 OSC filters to the settings: 00 99 00 00 00 top 00 99 00 11 bottom. Now the important part.
Make IFX-33 RPM for "tape noise simulation".
MFX1-#79OD/AMP bring the OD down to 4, crank the amp level to 50.
MFX2-#55, bring the reverb up to 80/20. Next on the Pitch EG, use the OSC1 & OSC2 settings JS-Y&AT2 intensity -00.30. The pitch will change as you press the keys harder, just like the real thing.
Lastly, most importantly, change the EQ on the MFX to 0 bass, 8.5 mid, -4.5 high. Mellotrons had a lot of mids, listen to any recordings of them, Like "In the Court of the Crimson King", they had a midrangy gritty howl with blankets of reverb to smooth it out, that made the sound so original.
If the attack isn't enough, use the P.editor and bring the attack down to -10. Now try playing all your King Crimson, Yes and Moody Blues favorites and watch your prog rock friends gaze in awe how a $999 modern synth can sound this vintage, this new TR61 Keyboard is amazing, I sold my beast $1700 Yamaha S90 (ripoff) and am not regretting it,
no more muddy piano's and weak horns, the Korg blows it out of the water.
You'll have to dig, but you'll find some real treasures in the Korgs.
I call this sound "Mellotron3Violins". Good luck prog heads. Long live the King!
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Post by publicradio »

bump. I would really like a mellotron flute sound if anyone has one.
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