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synaesthesia · Post by **synaesthesia** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 3:35 pm

I would be interested in hearing these samples (always liked the Mellotron sound from listening to St Etienne as a teenager!) but am just wondering about copyright issues.

As the tapes are recordings, I'm concerned that sampling them without permission would be a breach of copyright and therefore, if I liked them, I wouldn't be able to use them in a commercial composition?

If you have permission, then that's great.

LXNDR1 · Post by **LXNDR1** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 7:28 pm

taijiguy wrote:
LXNDR1 wrote:absolutely xie xie Taijiguy
Bukeqi! Ke shi, wo bu shi Zhonggouren. Wo zhi xihuan da Taijiquan

i wish i could understand the second sentence, if you typed in Chinese i at least could googletranslate it

LXNDR1 · Post by **LXNDR1** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 7:30 pm

synaesthesia wrote:I would be interested in hearing these samples (always liked the Mellotron sound from listening to St Etienne as a teenager!) but am just wondering about copyright issues.

As the tapes are recordings, I'm concerned that sampling them without permission would be a breach of copyright and therefore, if I liked them, I wouldn't be able to use them in a commercial composition?

If you have permission, then that's great.

sorry to intervene, but maybe it's better to not hear them at all to not get tempted into breaching of copyright, just as if they were never there

no cask of honey goes without a spoon of tar

Lost_Highway · Post by **Lost_Highway** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:05 pm

Just a small bump to say a big "thank you" to taijiguy for the samples and also for his permission to package them

With his kind permission, I have used LinuxSampler's Gigedit to assemble the samples into a big, keyswitched Giga file, which is kindly being hosted on the LinuxSampler site. Of course, LS is cross-platform, not just for Linux.

Via some videos on YouTube from a guy going by the name of Squonk, I came across his musings about the M400 Violins vs Mk II Violins sound. I used his EQ settings (three different ones) on the Mk II Violins to produce M400 Violins sounds and these are also included in the gigfile.

My friend and musical collaborator is especially grateful to taijiguy (and I suppose me as well

), because being blind and a Linux user, decent Tron sounds that he could use have been extremely thin on the ground, if not actually nonexistant, until now.

Thanks again taijiguy

taijiguy · Post by **taijiguy** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:40 pm

LXNDR1 wrote:
taijiguy wrote:
LXNDR1 wrote:absolutely xie xie Taijiguy
Bukeqi! Ke shi, wo bu shi Zhonggouren. Wo zhi xihuan da Taijiquan

i wish i could understand the second sentence, if you typed in Chinese i at least could googletranslate it

Sorry, I'm running a little behind the times!

Translation is: You're welcome! But I'm not Chinese. I only like doing Taijiquan (usually mispelled as Tai Chi).

taijiguy · Post by **taijiguy** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 3:23 pm

Lost_Highway wrote:Just a small bump to say a big "thank you" to taijiguy for the samples and also for his permission to package them

With his kind permission, I have used LinuxSampler's Gigedit to assemble the samples into a big, keyswitched Giga file, which is kindly being hosted on the LinuxSampler site. Of course, LS is cross-platform, not just for Linux.

Via some videos on YouTube from a guy going by the name of Squonk, I came across his musings about the M400 Violins vs Mk II Violins sound. I used his EQ settings (three different ones) on the Mk II Violins to produce M400 Violins sounds and these are also included in the gigfile.

My friend and musical collaborator is especially grateful to taijiguy (and I suppose me as well ), because being blind and a Linux user, decent Tron sounds that he could use have been extremely thin on the ground, if not actually nonexistant, until now.

Thanks again taijiguy

Lost_Highway, you're quite welcome, and thanks for converting the samples to Giga format. I should also thank all the other folks again who've provided other formats to the sampling community.

Just to clarify the copyright issue, several years ago, I was in contact with Streetly Electronics, the original manufacturer of Mellotrons, and was told that I could make samples of the classic sounds available because they are old enough to be in the public domain. That's not the case with the new sounds (1995-present), so I can't make any of those that I have available. Streetly continues to produce new sounds for the old and the new breed of Mellotrons. It is far from a dead instrument.

LXNDR1 · Post by **LXNDR1** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:00 pm

some entertaining site dedicated to Mellotron

http://egrefin.free.fr/eng/mellotron/mellotron.php

taijiguy · Post by **taijiguy** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:10 pm

LXNDR1 wrote:some entertaining site dedicated to Mellotron

http://egrefin.free.fr/eng/mellotron/mellotron.php

That's one of my go-to sites, along with http://www.kleonard.com/mellotron/ and http://www.geocities.jp/mellotronics/.

BassMasterK · Post by **BassMasterK** » Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:49 pm

Dragging this post out of the tarpits.

By any chance does anyone have the sfz mapping files for taijiguy's mellotron? It looks like a user named asseca used to house them but his websites are no longer working. Taijiguy's webpage only has the samples, not the sfz mapping. I can't find them anywhere on the net.

taijiguy · Post by **taijiguy** » Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:58 pm

BassMasterK wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:49 pm Dragging this post out of the tarpits.

By any chance does anyone have the sfz mapping files for taijiguy's mellotron? It looks like a user named asseca used to house them but his websites are no longer working. Taijiguy's webpage only has the samples, not the sfz mapping. I can't find them anywhere on the net.

I found some sfz files on my computer that may have come from asseca. I assume you can use the sfz files with the WAV files. Is that correct?

PM me with your email address and I'll send them to you.

sOktay · Post by **sOktay** » Fri Nov 16, 2018 8:04 pm

BassMasterK wrote: ↑Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:49 pm Dragging this post out of the tarpits.

By any chance does anyone have the sfz mapping files for taijiguy's mellotron? It looks like a user named asseca used to house them but his websites are no longer working. Taijiguy's webpage only has the samples, not the sfz mapping. I can't find them anywhere on the net.

Here's what I have:

https://www85.zippyshare.com/v/GyUIhxqP/file.html

BassMasterK · Post by **BassMasterK** » Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:14 pm

Thanks for the assist sOktay, unfortunately I'm getting an error when unzipping all of the files. No virus warnings, just an unspecified error preventing them from unzipping.

taijiguy, PM sent. Thank you.

sOktay · Post by **sOktay** » Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:25 pm

Hi BassMasterK, it's probably because I used 7zip, try opening it with this:

https://www.7-zip.org/

Turello · Post by **Turello** » Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:42 pm

Strange that there is not a Maize Sampler Based version in VSTi...

BassMasterK · Post by **BassMasterK** » Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:53 pm

That did the trick sOktay! Thanks so much, I actually like that program better than the one I was using.

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