The mellotron does things! I'm not about to describe in detail but it does things that no sampler has ever done. Unless the person programming understands that the mellotron does things then no sampler, however sophisticated will ever sound like a mellotron. Memotron, Mtron, Akai, Trubshaw 30 or the Grosvenor. It doesn't matter. The mellotron does things and modelling that will always be tricky. It's not just a question of a seemingly familiar timbre...........................it's SO much more.
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