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From: little@sdcsvax.UUCP (Glenn Little)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: need synth programming advice
Message-ID: <1241@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 19:45:38 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 13 19:45:38 1985
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Organization: EECS Dept. U.C. San Diego
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Keywords: analog, mellotron


     

        I hope someone can help me.  I am trying to synthesize (on an
        analog synthesizer... a Matrix 12)  the sound of the old
        Mellotron String Section.  To me, it sounded nothing like a
        typical synthesizer string section.  Somehow, there was more
        "air", or openness; yet at the same time there was a noticeable
        lack of thinness.  *Really* good description, huh?  Sorry.  I
        just hope someone who knows the sound I'm talking about might
        also know a trick to achieve the same effect.  The only examples
        I can think of off the top of my head are:  the beginning section
        of "Watcher of the Skies" from the album "Foxtrot", and the
        instrumental section toward the end of "Seven Stones" from the
        "Nursery Cryme" album, both by Genesis.

        I just can't seem to get that air of bigness (?) into my sound...
        it always has that synthesizer "buzz".  If anyone has any ideas,
        please let me know soon.  Thanks very much.

                                        Glenn Little

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