The Clavia mellotron and Chamberlin libraries came from the "masters" at
Mellotron Archives and many are not available on the "Pinder" disc. That's
why I bought it- to have access to those previously unavailable samples. I
do agree though that Markus' machine could be better than the Nord Wave.
Still, it probably weighs alot more.
> You did not have to buy the Clavia keyboard to get the Mellotron sounds.
> You could buy the same samples and play them on a Motif or Fantom. And
> with better fidelity and more tweakability than Clavia.
>
> Markus' machine will give you the feeling of playing a real mellotron with
> a very similar playing experience using the same keyboard. Plus it looks
> cool.
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lsf5275@aol.com
> Sender: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:17:20
> To: <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
> Reply-To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: New Digital Mellotron
>
> Well, that begs the question, if Streetly has the "protection masters,"
> then who has the MASTERS? If Markus has them and uses them to make the
> sounds
> for his new digital Mellotron sample player ( I refuse to call it the
> M4000 or a Mellotron) and it uses 24 bit uncompressed samples from those
> masters, it should sound OK I would think, and probably better than what's
> offered by Clavia.
>
> I'm skeptical as to whether there will be a huge market for it. I am
> curious to hear it, though I imagine it sounds great. I just wonder what
> the
> attraction is? If all of the same sounds are now offered by Clavia ( I
> think
> you can get them uncompressed now) and the Clavia machines can play those
> samples and a jillion other sounds, then all you are buying is
> cosmetics.
>
> I never thought there would be that big a market for the Memotron. I
> wonder
> how many of them have been sold. So if all of the bands/individuals that
> ever wanted a stand alone Mellotron sample keyboard purchased a
> Memotron...
> or if even half of them did (hell, a fourth of them), how big is the
> market
> going to be for another digital Mellotron emulator? Are folks that have
> Memotrons going to stick them in a closet or on eBay and then by Markus'
> machine? I'm sure Markus' sample library and pricing will be vastly
> superior to
> the Memotron's, but still, is that going to be enough? There is no
> question that everything he makes is first rate, and I'm sure the quality
> will be
> there, but are there going to be enough people that need that difference?
> I
> guess it really is attractive to all of the people that really would like
> to have the real thing but don't have the money. However, at some point
> you
> will have substantially fulfilled that market and once those buyers have
> the sample library, what else is there to sell to the customer base?
>
> It would be interesting to know how many people purchased a Clavia
> keyboard just to get the Mellotron sounds.
>
> Frank
>
>
> In a message dated 7/25/2010 10:37:03 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> tronbros@aol.com writes:
>
> We have Les's protection copies, one generation away from the MASTERS
> (sing hallelujas) but we never use them. They are there as a valued
> archive
> and have no place in regular tape production or any simulation.
>
>