people are always afraid of change in the beginning but usually come around... I am sure some nay sayers today will end up getting one, that's the usual pattern.
I would like to buy one I am all for it, I thought the Memotron was ingenious and I am happy Markus put this together, I think it's one of the best new products to come out in a very long time. Thank you Markus.
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--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, lsf5275@... wrote:
>
> 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@... 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.
>