For those who don't know what a Mellotron is, it was an old synthesizer that literally played a piece of tape of a sound when you hit the key. One piece of tape per key.<p>This new one is interesting, but as someone who lived through the magnetic tape era, I can't get away from them fast enough.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron</a>
This was pretty entertaining, altho i always like to see a simple graphic laying out oscillators, LFOs, filters/effects or routing matrix or whatever.<p>my weak tl;dr, updating the mellotron with everything that musician/hacker knows about MIDI, samplers, sequencers and Eurorack modules.<p>________<p>(also recommended, the thread yesterday about MIDI piano looper: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10149025" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10149025</a><p>____________<p>also fun, reading about frippertronics, how the flanger effect came to be, and Pink floyd's tape effects<p><a href="http://www.kitrae.net/music/Music_mp3_DSOTM.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.kitrae.net/music/Music_mp3_DSOTM.html</a> (you can google the first 2