Tape Sampler à la Trentemøller
Sep 14, 2022
2 minutes
by Mario Schumacher
he Mellotron is more or less the predecessor to the modern Sampler. For each key, a tape was embedded with the recording of the corresponding note, which was then played back at the touch of a key. Since the tapes contained original recordings of acoustic instruments, the whole thing sounded remarkably realistic for the time. The design-related peculiarities, such as the limited frequency response and the wear of
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