That’s ridiculous Gino ….most every M4000D review has been staggering in its praise. I will most likely make the Streetly samples my next “Mellotron” type purchase
due to price but the M4000D had done to the Mellotron what the Ventilator has tone for the 122 Leslie….for all practical purposes it has replaced it. I think the
Streetly group are wonderful people and put a lot of care into every machine they builb but you can’t ignore the reality that the day has come that these tape machines
have been relegated to collectors and enthusiasts and the season of the tape machine has past as a mainstream instrument for the sounds it produces. We all like the
Streetly group and this is meant with no disrespect at all…just an observation that is hard to deny and I am sure it has not been lost on Streetly. If tape machine sales
were still “booming” I doubt they would be selling samples and iPhone apps. Now I am sure I will be lambasted by the hard core tape guys but understand I am here
because of the tape machines and my lifelong interest in them so please keep that in mind before slinging the dung.
Lock & Load!
Gary
Don't get me started on a 4000D. I know people who are full time working musicians who's records we have all bought and it is regarded as adirty oppurtunistic fake, like a guitar with Gribson or Pender on the headstock, there were such things.
If you can't afford a real Mellotron then don't bother buying an ersatrz device.. get a laptop or a sampler, theat plays Streetly approved samples. I have a Melotron and a computer and a sampler but I have felt no need for a thing that replicates a common thing like sample playback. If there was anything about these machines that made them special in termsof functionality I would not hesitate to reccomend.EG : I can't find a anything that repliactes my Crumar Performer.
A VST playback module like the Muse would be what I would buy
Look up the gear approach used by Radio Massacre International. A stripped down sampler with good samplesin a solid easy to maintain hardware shell and power sypply that demands no work to replace .is a great thing.
greatings from Greece
i am considering buying a digital mellotron,(i would prefer the analogue M4000 by streetly but it is way too expensive...)
So please share your thoughts M4000D or memotron / memotron rack.
Your opinions will be very usefull,thanks in advance
ps: (i have the software) it is for gigging!!
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