Hello folks:
I received my M4000D Rack Mount today with the extra expansion card. The back end has all of the outputs of the full size M4000D. It comes with a pretty cloth with Union Jack Mellotron logo for cleaning the screens. I set it up at lunch today and I guess I activated the 2nd series sound card as I was playing MKI and MKII rhythms and fills at one point. I switched to the nylon guitar as I have the same loaded on a rack in one of my M400's. The sound seems sharper on the digital version but is quite pleasant just the same. I hooked up the rack to a vacuum tube pre-amp and it sounds nice. Then I connected into a Lexicon reverb and it sounded very nice.
It is a suitable augmentation to my 2 M400's with 8 tape racks and when my M400's are naughty I can switch to the M4000D and become less frustrated. I would have no hope of playing the 200 tron sounds without the digital version. I chose the M4000D over the Memotron rack as I like the Operating System better. As I have no computer nearby, I chose it over the M-tron Pro also. When one of my boys upgrade their laptops, I will take the old one and probably get the M-tron Pro in order to access the Streetly Tapes, of which all of my tape racks are comprised.
Cheers,
Dan
M400S 1167
M400 E4/7600S
M4000D Rack 020