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From: "jonesalley" <jonesalley@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 10:41 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] So you want a wish list? Here's my fantasy. Well,
my other fantasy.


> I dream of a six-octave keyboard, G to G. Keys that duplicate as
> closely as possible the look and feel of Mellotron keyboards, with
> piano-style key lips, keys with a short key dip and a slightly
> rubbery key bed feel, and fully-programmable velocity and channel
> pressure sensitivity. The instrument has a row of switches and knobs
> above the keyboard that duplicates the knobs of a Mark II, and an
> additional row of controls on a separate panel above that with
> contemporary workstation controls.

OK, Jon - as a cheaper alternative, wotabout a standalone module with said
controls along the front, with standard MIDI access? Mount it above a
weighted 88-note 'mother', and away you go. You could even (just about) make
it 19".

The instrument is a sample-
> playback device with maximum sample quality available today and HIGH
> polyphony, at least 120 voices. It contains in ROM every single
> Mellotron sound available, full-length samples of each note,
> including all of the factory loops and SFX setups. <etc.>

Basically, a dedicated, high-end sample player, although without a
'humaniser' of some sort, you'd still get the 'sample' problem of each note
sounding the same every time, and quirks ironed out. Nice idea, though I'll
still go for my '3 sounds at a time' M400!

Andy T.