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Subject: RE: [Mellotronists] RE: Memotron

From: "David Jacques" <djacques@...>
Date: 2006-01-28

My point exactly... Why purchase this limited keyboard for 1790 euros (close to $2100 USD) when you can purchase great samples for $200 and load them into a very functional Motif ES, Fantom, or Triton for much less... and have all the other great features of those instruments? Makes no sense...
 
 My bet is that it is never produced for the market...
 
-----Original Message-----
 
 Okay... They're taking a generic sample-playing keyboard, putting it
in a box that vaguely resembles the targeted musical instrument,
slicing off some of the keys and likewise crippling the sampler's
other capabilities to match the functional limitations of the targeted
musical instrument, and marketing the result that as a modern version
of that instrument.

At a deep philosophical level, don't you think that's... kind'a weird?

  -- Don