The Mellotron Group

With only 68Mb to work with, it probably wouldn't take much time to completely reload it.  (2 minutes?)  Don't you think that the USB type B connector is a pain in the ass ???  I've never seen a type B USB flash drive, so you probably need a PC and a USB printer cable to load samples.  :-(  

Markus' new digital mellotron and the Manikin Memotron both have compact flash card slots.



--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, NormLeete@... wrote:
>
> 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
>