On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:08:58PM -0500, Sean Corbett wrote: > Julien, > > I love the sound of mellotron, and this is a really beautiful piece! > Thanks for posting it. That bit around 3:50 gave me chills. When the > sample library you used becomes public, please let the list know... > I've been looking for a good free tron library. :) > > -sean > > > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Julien Claassen <julien@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello will! > > ?To echo you: Interesting. :-) So many people think, that this tune carries > > something oriental, Chinese or Japanese in particular. I didn't aim for that > > at all. I just thought of some kind of medieval tune and put in a bit of my > > typical prog and that was it. :-) Nice though. I don't mind getting more, > > than I (didn't :-) ) pay for. > > ?Always good to hear feedback for these things and of course to know, that > > someone seems to have enjoyed it. > > ?Warmly yours > > ? ? ? ? ? ?Julien > > I'm remembering what someone shouted out at ProgFest in L.A. in 1993 when Anglagaard finished their first song: "MORE MELLOTRON!!!" (This was before the whole "more cowbell" meme came about). A friend of mine had lent the band his Mellotrons-- they didn't bring theirs over on the trip. Very nice piece! Nice to hear a whole orchestration done solely with Mellotron samples. Yes, doing parallel 5ths almost anywhere in a piece makes it sound to Westerners like Chinese music. I'm not sure why. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
