Mellotronists

After reading the recent posts, well...case closed.  Here are two 
individuals who never heard the real sounds outside a recording 
realm, and cannot afford the real thing.  
To all those in similar situations, try to reason this.  Depending 
when and how you bought the GForce, you paid between $100 and $200, 
right? If your computer has a program that will read Akai format, 
then you can still get the Pinder Cd for $199 which is what I paid 
for mine back in 93.  If not you can get a sampler such as an Akai 
2000 with 32m ram that will load the Pinder cd into the sampler, as 
I did back then.  You will need a SCSI cd reader that plugs into the 
sampler, and I have seen these Akai's recently on ebay for around 
$100. Thanks to recommendation from fellow member charel, I just 
purchased an EMU E4x TURBO on ebay for just over $300. and after 
loading the Pinder cd and running it thru the EMU, I challenge 
anyone to tell the difference from the real thing.  The Chamberlin 
strings are so clear if you listen closely you can actually hear the 
bow striking the strings.  Point is if you do a little research, 
ask "the group" for their recommendations, for a few dollars more 
you can have quality Tron sound with miminal compromise. 
It is just unfair that a product like this gets unleashed to unwary 
consumers, unfair to all the efforts of so many people to preserve 
and perpetuate this unique "machine". Doug  (proud owner of 
cumbersome machines and errant 1960's technology)