Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists

<< I'm somewhat surprised that most places online state that this is a
"discontinued item" as it was just released last year and I bought it last
summer.Maybe the market for such a tool is smaller than Emu thought? Anyone heard why
this happened?>>

scanning the adverts in back issues of sound-on-sound, it appears that some
dealers, but not all of them by any means, had got wind of this as long ago as
four years. most of them now are knocking out emu /hardware/ products at
rock-bottom prices, & it's not just because of the exchange rate. my pk6 was £300,
& I got a new proteus 2000 module for the same. the samplers have been heavily
discounted (except for the very most high-end unit, the platinum) for two
years at least.
my recent conversations with emu, & visits to their site, confirm that they
are winding up the hardware side of the business & concentrating on the
computer-sampling platform. shame. probably they don't want to have to support
awkward users like me....

<< So, when they answer the phone, do they say "Emu. Later." and hang up? >>

sadly, they are not possessed of this level of sophistication. these days you
get a bunch of sampled voices (how appropriate...) to navigate, & the first
one tells you that you're a valued customer of "creative labs", who now own the
emu & ensoniq brands. thanks heavens the japanese haven't abandoned hardware
sampling yet. pretty soon a new mellotron will be the only hardware-based
playback instrument on the market. that ironic enough or what?

duncan/400nr1098

& five (5) emu samplers, a proteus 2000, an audity, a planet-earth & a pk6, +
many roms.
& to think I switched allegiance to emu because alesis had poor support.