>From: Neil Durant <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Incidentally, would there be any copyright issues sampling the Mellotron >tapes and redistributing? After all they're recordings like anything else. Maybe. Anyone knows email address of the guy who originally made Mellotrons? www.mellotron.com guy has purchased the original tape masters but that does not mean the sounds elsewhere are his property. In any case, we want record the sounds now, before the tapes goes too bad. The recorded sounds can then be placed to public domain in a few ten years. How long is the copyright on sound recordings made at 1960-1970? I know what books have but don't know what sounds have. Most importantly. I want to take a look at the sounds because we should recreate the sounds. That would save us all the trouble with copyright issues. Because the Mellotron sounds were unusual and good (though, Mamas&Papas had their own recordings) the recreation should have similar variances and defects from the perfect recordings. Existing sounds could be altered to have similar variances. After we have the Mellotron like sounds, then people could play with LinuxSampler, or have sequencers with a plugin which converts the sequences to Mellotron sequences. User would get feedback if the sequences cannot be played back with Mellotron. Long strings could automatically be modified such that they can be played with Mellotron. Things like that. Juhana
