The Mellotron Group

I believe the mellotron to be touch sensitive.  If you slam the keys, the start of the sound most definitely chirps.  If you play lightly, the sound will warble on in.  It's one way of discerning fake tron from real tron on recordings.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Jul 13, 2011 3:29 pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] M4000D nice review with photos


  
    
                  
        "The analogue Mellotrons are actually very        sensitive and a careless handling of the machine could occur        several mechanical problems. Smoke, temperature and humidity        also play a huge factor."
      
      Why do they keep hashing this out? If you throw a Moog into a      swimming pool you wreck it. Same for the M4000D. If you are an      idiot with your gear then you get what you deserve. (Smoke has      screwed up many things that are not mechanical, incidentally)
      
      "The M4000D has a position sensitive keyboard, which means each        key is in principle a volume control. This is to emulate the        effect of the Mellotron and espesially the M-series Chamberlin        where you could control the volume of the notes, depending on        how hard you pressed the tape on the tape head."
      
      Is this true? Does anyone actually have a 'touch sensitive      Mellotron' here? I'd have thought for that to be the case the      instrument would have to be very badly adjusted in the first      place.
      
      Mike
    
    
    On 12/07/2011 14:49, Charles wrote:    
                       
            
http://balduin.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/mellotron-m4000d/