Craig Evans
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Posted: June 26 2016, 09:51 |
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Mike indeed owned a Mellotron from the Incantations era (circa 1978) until selling it in the Songs Of Distant Earth era (circa 1994) however its very unlikely he ever recorded any music with it, live or studio. There's certainly none of the characteristic Mellotron sounds in any of Mike's past music although the Polymoog's oboe sound near the end of Incantations Part 4 does sound very Mellotron like. Also, after Mike's combo organ era from 1972 to 1978 (which also occasionally featured the Hammond, Solina, Arp 2600 and even a real orchestra and choir) and when not using a real orchestra and choir, Mike seemed to have had a preference for using polyphonic analog synths for orchestral and choir sounds such as the Prophet 5, Oberheim Ob-Xa, Arp Solina, Roland VP-330 and Polymoog. From 1978 he used a combination of these along with the Fairlight Series of computer synths from 1981 for orchestral and choir sounds until 1985 which was the point when he began using polyphonic digital synths for virtually every electronic keyboard sound with the rare appearance of an analog organ and/or analog synth on Amarok, Heavens Open, Tubular Bells II, Tubular Bells 2003 and On The Rocks.
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