The Mellotron Group

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.
>