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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Ipad and the Mellotron

From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
Date: 2014-07-06

I agree. I came to keyboards late in life and after 7 years of piano lessons I realised I wasn't going to play like Glenn Gould in this lifetime. Fortunately with the advent of sequencers, samplers and GarageBand even the untalented and lazy can have a lot of fun with music.

Mark

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From: gino wong wonggster@gmail.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>;
To: <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>;
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Ipad and the Mellotron
Sent: Sat, Jul 5, 2014 11:45:19 PM

 

It's all relative.  A Nord piano is pretty good and I max out personally well before it, I use and SG1D.  i know a 14 year old kid that a Nord would hold back if he practicesd on it, He can play things he can't pronounce.. He plays very we,l whether he has any taste , I don't know but that's probably relative too.


On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 6:10 PM, markpringnz@yahoo.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


Hi Gino,

I did buy it and I think it's great value fro money. I bought the ipad as I have to do a lot of travelling soon and I wanted something light and portable to create music. I have a tron but it needs about 100 hours of work doing and for now it will have to wait. The M3000 sounds good, can play 2 voices at once and the chord feature is great for those of us that can't play ie me, and allows you to do a type of split keyboard. I like M-tron pro but it is much more expensive and although it can do layers I would have thought it should have done splits as well.

I like your analogy about acoustic vs virtual piano but I think a lot depends on price, good acoustic pianos cost a lot of money, you can buy one of the Nord keyboards and get reasonable pianos and lots of other voices besides. A Steinway grand is expensive.

 I don't think I'll ever be serious. :)

Mark

---In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, <wonggster@...> wrote :

Get the M3000.  It comes with all of IPad protocols that make it modern recording compatable Audiobus and all thet.. The difference is similar to an acoustic piano vs a digital one. You can get by with it until it is time to get serious..

May things get serious for you

best

gino


On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:49 AM, markpringnz <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

It's very good value for money Martin, I'm very impressed. if one has the ipad already it must be the best value for money of anything which isn't a real tron.


thanks

Mark




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--
Gino Wong Birgelo  BSComm, BSEE
ReRed Recording
Treehouse Recording Studio
Recording Production Consulting
Audio Mastering, Recording, Restoration 
Publishing Administration