The Mellotron Group

Dear All,
 
Coming in a bit late with this as iI've been very busy recently (VEMIA  
auction coming soon...) but I did try the NordWave and if you took some of the  
extra synth mangling off the presets the looped versions of the Mellotron  
weren't that bad. Interesting that the unlooped versions are now available.  
Clavia are using some sort of proprietary encoding that reduces storage so  
looped versions are about 5M and unlooped are about 10M.
 
I am quite interested in the Electro 3 but note that the sample memory on  
that is restricted to 68M and 50 samples (shame), the other 160M is 
restricted  to pianos.
 
I suppose in normal use you would probably only use 3 violins, 8 voice and  
flute so that isn't such an issue.
 
My ideal version would be the Electro with the Wave engine built in, but  
I'm weird.
 
Will probably go for the Electro 3 (once the Fairlight has sold) as the  
piano / organ angle is of more use than "yet another synth" and I've already 
got  the Nord Modular G2 which is one of the most useful synths I've ever had.
 
All the best,
Norm