I was totally suprised when I stumbled on this soundtrack by François GLORIEUX
The use of the Yamaha GS1 in this wonderfull soundtrack reminds me of early Pink floyd and The Rolling Stones Track*20.000 light years from home*
Did Brian Jones use a Yamaha GS1 to create the Mellotron effects



The intro sounds very much alike






Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2011-04-25 07:54 by fd2005.

Quote
fd2005
Did Brian Jones use a Yamaha GS1 to create the Mellotron effects

It would be practical if he were still alive after 1982.

Brian used a Mellotron to create the Yamaha GS-1 effects...15 years before it had been invented, in fact. He was a head of his time.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2011-04-25 10:31 by TornAndFried.

Offcourse Just stumbled on this video on youtube and found the sound so simalar...
Brain was indeed fara head of his time

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard. The heart of the instrument is a bank of parallel linear magnetic audio tape strips. Playback heads underneath each key enable the playing of pre-recorded sounds. Each of the tape strips has a playing time of approximately eight seconds, after which the tape comes to a dead stop and rewinds to the start position.

A major advantage of using tape strips, as opposed to tape loops or cassettes (cf. the Birotron) is that the Mellotron can reproduce the "attack" transient of the instruments recorded on the tape.

Quote
fd2005
The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard. The heart of the instrument is a bank of parallel linear magnetic audio tape strips. Playback heads underneath each key enable the playing of pre-recorded sounds. Each of the tape strips has a playing time of approximately eight seconds, after which the tape comes to a dead stop and rewinds to the start position.

A major advantage of using tape strips, as opposed to tape loops or cassettes (cf. the Birotron) is that the Mellotron can reproduce the "attack" transient of the instruments recorded on the tape.

No shit!

Mathijs

I have my Kraftwerk-moments some times, but do they use a mellotron ...it sounds good for a short time and then you have to go back to the Blues..reality...

2 1 2 0

Quote
Come On
I have my Kraftwerk-moments some times, but do they use a mellotron ...

Kraftwerk used something similar to a Mellotron called "Orchestron" made by Vako. It used optic discs instead of tapes. Kraftwerk were a great band. Too bad that they ditched all their fun gear for laptops...





I thought that the GS-1 in the clip above sounded more like a string machine rather than a Mellotron. Not bad for an early digital beast to sound that organic.