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Topic: I am blown away by the Mel Labs release!
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Derek Cook
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posted April 16, 2002 01:00 PM
    
Have you tried any of the MarcE releases on SampleLibrary?They provide some of the best sounds I have ever heard!  If you like mel-labs, just wait until you get the sample ram and hear it for real! Torus, certainly made some great guitars in MEL-LABS. My personal favourite is "Dark and Grey", which is a beautiful nylon guitar sound (complete with string squeak, courtesy of a Mellotron cello sample!). You can hear the sound on my MarcE tribute song. I use my EX live, and it's the only synth I need. ____________________ Regards,
Derek Cook
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J. Westwood
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posted April 16, 2002 03:09 PM
Ohh Lacoza, you need to get some RAM, man! 
Much of the 'Mel Lab's' crew, Ski especially - painstakingly recreates the Mellotron with REAL Mellotron samples! A quick overview for you - a sample is a recorded sound of something, a piano, a guitar, a mellotron, etc. BUT you can only play that sample so far on a keyboard before it sounds 'silly' (sometimes it can be cool)
So another sample has to be made of higher notes of the piano, and lower note samples as well. Then you 'zone' each sample on the keyboard - low samples onto lower keys, mid samples on middle keys, high on high. This assembly is then called a WAVE, in Yamaha speak. No easy feat by any means, and requires a definate talent, which thankfully many users here have - and Ski went all out for the Mel Lab's release. He not only understood the slow SCSI issue, but that many users don't have alot of RAM or Flash. He painstakingly whittled everything down to 16MB without (to me) any loss in realism and quality. I would strongly advise searching for our member known as E! here, and get in touch with him to buy some 16MB Flash RAM - it's kinda expensive, but your EX will love you for it.
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drb
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posted April 16, 2002 10:15 PM
Morpheus,Many good EX things at
http://www.ampfea.org/sln/ drb [ April 16, 2002: Message edited by: drb ]
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Derek Cook
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posted April 17, 2002 03:48 PM
Lachoza,I assumed when I made the statement in my last post (without explaining) that you were listening to Mel-labs lite, or the voices in mel-labs which use stock EX samples. As JW says, most of the MEL-LABS patches use custom samples that are stored in a 16MB S1M file which is either loaded into FLASH or RAM. You then load the appropriate S1V file. As JW said, Ski did an astounding job on the samples, and Ski and Torus did an even more amazing job on filling 256 voices with authentic and not so authentic Melotron voices. I provided a few patches myself, JW and Torus provided two drum kits, and I wrote some words. All in all an awesome package. ____________________ Regards,
Derek Cook
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Ski
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posted April 17, 2002 07:03 PM
Derek's memory is faltering a bit. (Funny, it's usually MY memory that's faltering!)There are actually 325 unique Voices in the MEL-LABS release. Pick up the MEL-LABS "Starter Kit", and you'll get yet a few more Voices that aren't in the main release. ____________________ Ski
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