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Me too, Christophe. Try Tapeworm. It’s available online and I
haven’t had a problem with it in Windows 7x64.
Ah, the
Mellotron! It became the love of my life too, also having been introduced
to it by Court of the Crimson King and at about the same time by the Moody
Blues. It just has a sound like nothing else. Captain Beefheart
(also a fan) described it as having , "a merthiolate sound", and that really
does describe it - strangely astringent. I was a bass and guitar player
with seriously limited keyboard skills and a budget that didn't come anywhere
near affording one so I just settled for listening until softsynths came along,
when I picked up a program called M-Tron which is a great Mellotron emulation
that I've had tons of fun with. Unfortunately though, last winter I wound
up with a new PC with Windows 7 64 bit and I wasn't able to get M-Tron to
successfully install on it, though I should really go on the web again and see
if there's some kind of work around. Failing that, though, there is a new
and improved version, and at this point I might just spring for it. From: "bill bigrig" <billbigrig@yahoo.com> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:20:45 PM Subject: Re: Fripp news I was introduced to him in high school, (1972). A friend that played trombone next to me had us all over to his house to hear, "giant bass saxes". It was the most powerful thing I heard up to then, (normally an ELP fan). I traded him the trilogy album for in the wake of posiedon. I had to tell him that it was not 2 saxes, but a sax and guitar. Hearing Gregg Lake's voice was a surprise, I thought ELP was his firsd band. I quickly bought the first album, then bought later albums that to me, started to lose that original sound. Larks tongues brought me baak, but then faded again. Thus began my lifelong love of all things Mellotron, and the burning desire to have those sounds at my disposal. I was not prosperous enough to buy music gear until 1985. It still took me til the early 2000s to get an Akai S-5000 and the Mellotron archives. HEAVEN!! I also scored a Roland M-VS1, naturally, it used a few notes thenspread them out across the keys, the A in particular had a different sound than the other notes, and was the same at every octave. Still, for the price, it is fun. In1975 I got my first taste of non-top 40 Rundgren. My life changed forever when I heard the 6 man band and the album called Todd. Rig From: Christophe <cburke55@comcast.net> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 6:54 AM Subject: Re: Fripp news I agree on both
counts. From what I've read in the past, including a bio some years back,
he does seem to be painfully serious about himself and a little deficient in the
humor department. I also seem to remember him taking a long sabbatical (I think he called it retirement then, too) between the Lark's Tongues period (which is still my favorite KC era) and the Discipline era over his dissatisfaction with the biz. I doubt his "retirement" will last forever. From: "Art Simon" <simart@gmail.com> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 1:44:10 AM Subject: Re: Fripp news I love, adore, the music of Robert Fripp. But I'm getting the impression he's a bit prickly. |