I bought the M4000D.
It took a bit of saving up to be able to afford one, but it is still much cheaper than a real one..... and it would be impossible for me to transport a real one for gigs.
Previously I'd had to dick around with lugging my Akai MPC4000 sampler, a MIDI controller keyboard and the Mike Pinder CD-ROM to gigs.... and that was a pain in the ass too as it took about 6 minutes to load the samples up into memory and it was always time consuming programming the ones I wanted at rehearsals.
The M4000D solves all that by having its own keyboard and the sounds load in about 1 second and there's 100 of them. The keyboard feel is lovely too.
I am planning to buy the GMedia MTron too though, with the Streetly tapes, just for the fun of it in my home studio - I have no plans to gig with a laptop though.
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "mkmellotron" <mkmellotron@...> wrote:
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> 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
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> ps: (i have the software) it is for gigging!!
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