It a machine

that makes music…

[EDITED] Deleted…


I guess I don’t know how to post the link to it…

Bill…

You mean this?

http://machines.hyperreal.org/

Isn’t that beautiful…
????

I believe that’s one of Bob Moog’s Masterpieces…


It’s not the link I had intended to post on this topic…
It’s even better…


This is an extension of your link…




Billy Gates was in diapers when this stuff was on top of the heap…



My link doesn’t even come close to this stuff…
phoo…
Thanks for posting this link…
:agree:
:p
:laugh:



Bill…

Love all that stuff. But I have got friends who collect old circuit boards:-(

I got to play with an old arp 2600 in college (around 2000). the only thing I could ever really get out of it were helicopter emulations. it had a monophonic keyboard that triggered a sound but couldn’t cut it off. it was kind of fun patching in all the cables and learning about synthesizers. collectors were always trying to buy it from the school. can’t remember how much it was worth though.

What school was that, nra? That’s cool…

I remember back in the late '70’s…
There was this 2 1/2 octave keyboard… I think it was 2 1/2 octaves
maybe, a few more keys on it…

It was called a “Mimi-Moog”…
One of Bob’s Gems…
:)
:agree:
:whistle:

I believe…
It had three slave oscillators in it… along with the master oscillator…
This one…
one of the oscillators developed a frequency drift after it was fired up for about 20 minutes…



I will say, it was a beautiful machine made with the finest of parts…


It turned out to be a faulty capacitor in the slave oscillator (for that bank) that caused the drift…
Oh…
The headache of-it-all…
My head still hurts from that fix…




Bill…

I had an Axxe and an Odysyey. A Nat and a Wasp. A Korg100. SA10…
In my teens, I made a ‘synth’ from a Stylofone and an old pipe organ interfered with a few caps ‘n’ pots.

Bill! You ever get your mits on a Mellotron or Chaimberlin?

I remember seeing those early synths in and around the keyboard display area… I was frightened of them… Someone might come in a spill something into them, and then I’d have to take them apart and try to fix them… :) :laugh: :p

I anything could go wrong … IT-WOULD… Murphy’s Law… :) :p

Bill…

I don’t remember a Chaimberlin…
However, we had tweo versions of Mellotrons…
They both worked very well…
You see, I wasn a keyboard player…



The keyboard player in the shop was the greatest guy…
If he discovered an issue with this stuff then, together we could manage to fix this stuff…
He had a cut-down B-3…
He used to rent it out to the big stages when they came to town…
We managed to keep it in top rental shape for the Big Guys…
and all the Big Blues Stages…
and all…
If I wasn’t playing, I got to see the all those concerts…
and to see how they used the gear on the stage that we rented, to them…


Boy…
there was some nice musicians out on the road…


The Mellotrons needed lots of Head Cleaning…
The tracks/voices were recorded on 3/8 th " tape…
There seemed to be about 15 seconds of recorded series of tracks on each KEY…
??
At odd times the tape would break if the player would try to extend the playing time for however he played a song…
Something like that…
????

The capstan was a big motor driven flywheel that was servo controlled…
The only time that ever failed was if they powered the mellotron with a bad power source, or something…



There was some great OoOo’s
and AhAhAh’s that came outta the voice tracks…
I seem to remember those tracks…




Bill…

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/352.html

There’s another great link… It’s free as well…

Bill…

I never understood why ‘loops’ of tape weren’t used? Remember the WEM Copy-Cat?

Quote:

Remember the WEM Copy-Cat?

Theres a plugin:
http://www.genuinesoundware.com:80/?a=showproduct&b=36

And a demo of the actual thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb-LdvWN4zM

Nice:-)

I hear you TonyR…

There may have been some “splicing” issue that couldn’t allow that idea to be done…
????



Bill…

Loops didn’t have the attack and natural fade or change of a longer recording of the real thing, and the lack of an easy way to create a smooth loop point way back then made it easier to do a straight line playback and flyback (this things had a funny way of physically playing tape strips). Some machines did use loops later, but they were never good mellotron replacements.

Was WEM involved in any other products?
For some reason I associate WEM with Joe Meek.
Didn’t he do a prototype guitar synth with them or something?

Edit: I vaguely recall that it was called something like the “third man” or something… ?