Thread: Mellotron!
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Old 9th Nov 2019, 9:28 pm   #41
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Default Re: Mellotron!

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Originally Posted by Jon_G4MDC View Post
As for the 'Engineers Dream' Mellotron where everything is perfect compared with the actual one, that's just how real world musical instruments behave. I think that music is in the arts not the sciences because of all those so called deficiencies.
Agreed, the Minimoog drives the filter circuit too hard and as such creates distortion that is responsible for part of it's signature sound.
Plus the fact that passive components are heat sensitive causes the instabilities in analogue synths that despite being much maligned and removed in digital synths, are what make analogue synths more "organic" and why remakes of now legendary synths are in so much demand. Behringer can't make their clones quick enough!
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