Hey all, just put up a new patch on patchstorage. It’s a mellotron!
This is still being worked on, so if anyone comes across anything in the patch they think should be addressed feel free to reply to this post. Currently my next goal is to work out the kinks in the sample selection to allow for smoother transitions between sample sets (a la segmenti).
I just want to say how much I’m enjoying the Yellotron, having now clambered over the initial stumbling block of the synth producing total silence. That was caused by my not R-ing TFM, which clearly says that you have to manually download the samples from Leisureland’s site and place them in the appropriate folders. The samples are gorgeous.
For the benefit of any other newbies, if you initially get a wobbly “confused bee” sound out of the Yellotron (as I did), then you have the “motor quality” parameter set to some non-perfect value. Hold Shift and move knob 3 to the 12 o’clock position to set it to high quality, minimal wobble.
Thank you for making this!
Thanks for the kind words @crackedPot ! Glad you’re enjoying Yellotron! 
One other thing about the samples that should be noted is that they are 44.1kHz, meaning that they will be slightly off-pitch when played back on the instrument. It’s only by a couple cents, but if this bothers anyone it’s a relatively simple fix. Import the samples into your DAW of choice (you could use audacity for this, which is free) and then export them at 48kHz. This is the sample rate used by the 201PP.
Hi, this is an amazing patch for the 201! Thank you.
The patch works fine but when I connect my 201 to midi the sounds on this patch start squibiling really weird. Any idea why or how that might happen?
Cheers!
@NGplus It’s possible the warble effect was being triggered externally by MIDI. I just gave this patch a facelift which involved removing that effect so hopefully the problem’s solved now.
For those interested:
Yellotron now uses the same envelope and speed controls as Topaz 1 + Compaq 2.
Notes which don’t have a sample are now transposed up or down to stay within the range of samples (no more dead key presses!)
Switching between sample banks is now seamless and syncs to the 201’s master BPM, although I cut down the number of banks from 10 to 4. A randomizer mode is also included, which assigns a random instrument to each key press.
All necessary samples are now included in the .zip on patchstorage, so it works “right out of the box”.
Finally, a “lite” version of the patch is also included. This version cuts down on RAM use by only loading one bank of samples (the folder named “1”) and replaces the bank selector with the warble effect from the OG patch. To use this version, delete “module.pd” and rename “module-single bank.pd” to “module.pd”.
Wow! That sounds really really good. Especially the extra RAM friendly version, amazing. Thank you for this amazing preset.
Great list of updates! I’ll have to give it another whirl. I had some freezes previously with the 12 patch mother, but i figured i just had too many sample heavy synth engines loaded.