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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Korg Monotron

From: lsf5275@aol.com
Date: 2010-05-25

Today a man came to look at my house (it's for sale) and when he walked into my shop his eyes nearly popped out of his head. He knew exactly what he was looking at, even though he had never seen a Mellotron, much less one completely disassembled. He was an electrical engineer by trade and had assembled PAIA modular synth years back. Not a musician, but a total gadget freak. I took him in to see the M4000, the 4-track and a couple of nearly completed M-400s that go home this weekend. Thirty minutes slipped by in a wink. I hope he buys the house.
 
Frank
 
In a message dated 5/24/2010 8:02:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, pocotron@yahoo.com writes:
 

  PAIA made a similar one in the mid '70's called the Gnome.  Somewhere I have one I assembled from a kit.  All analog, unstable as hell, many calibration pots inside, therefore a real pain to tune.  Fun anyway.
 
   -Bruce D.
 

--- On Mon, 5/24/10, lsf5275@aol. com <lsf5275@aol. com> wrote:

From: lsf5275@aol. com <lsf5275@aol. com>
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Korg Monotron
To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 2:24 PM

 
I plan to be the first guy in my neighborhood not to get one of these.
 
In a message dated 5/24/2010 3:48:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ecclesreinson@ rogers.com writes:
 
Before you go out and get a cheap Korg Monotron ribbon thingy...Watch this:
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=CFr8w4sxugg
Maybe if it had CV output it might be a cheap / useful ribbon controller, but as it is it's kind of useless isn't it?

What's twice as useless as a Monotron? Two of them.
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=du9P8nMulvA