li63sgy@sdcc7.UUCP (glenn little) (04/24/85)
I have a few more questions concerning sampling machines. (I suspect that soon all my questions will be moot due to what seems like an impending explosion in the sampling area, but...) I read recently that Mellotron (yes, they of the choir, and so on) was working on a sampling machine. I read this in the April issue of Keyboard magazine. The blurb was short, and was a little confusing. They mentioned something about interfacing with existing equipment, and they mentioned a price tag of, if I remember correctly, 2000 to 3000 dollars. Does anyone have any more information on this, either its capabilities, cost, approximate release time, etc? Or how about the new Akai rack-mount sampler. Is this any good? I know nothing at all about it, other than that it exists. Are there others in the works that I don't know about? Oh, (sorry), one more thing. There has been a little discussion of sampling a choir recently. My thanks to the person who wrote the article about Mellotrons. But one thing he said is something I've been wondering about for awhile, although I am not yet quite so resigned about it: that sampling machines as yet cannot capture the richness of the Mellotron (choir in particular... I guess it is a complex sound). Has anyone had experience trying to capture that sound (good or bad)? What are the problems involved? Thanks, Glenn Little