gs wrote:I find it odd too, what exactly all the fuss is about this instrument. What exactly does it do differently than any digital board that contains Mellotron samples or allows you to import them? Seems to me this is all about presentation (appearance, controls, color). Seems like a mighty steep price especially for a board that limits you to 37 or whatever keys, and the 8-second limitation.
It seems to give you the look and feel of the Mellotron, with the full samples. SO many Mellotron sampler patches are looped shitty samples. I think that's pretty cool. I've been playing shitty compressed shortened Mellotron samples on synth keyboards for a decade. I'd love to have something which looked, felt, and sounded like a Mellotron.
Ashe37 wrote: Odd, you guys fuss about the Juno-D and Juno-G being called a juno, but not about this being called a Mellotron.
Uhhhh, yeah.
That's because the "Juno" name denotes a synthesizer... a device which can't very effectively be emulated by a digital device... whereas
this device is a sampler, which isn't too bad at digitally playing back a sample. I don't know why I'm telling you this, as you should EASILY know this, but it's much easier to play back a sample of a tape recording via a sample than it is to emulate the infinite variety of subtle variations which occur in the functionality and electronics of a synthesizer. While there'll always be very subtle variable differences between a sampler and a device that plays back analog recordings, those differences are imperceptible compared to they many and audible differences in a digital device which tries to emulate the variations that exist in a synth, even one with DCOs.
I love the manifold failings of the original Mellotron, and would love to have one. But more than that, I'd love to have something which sounds just like it, and functions just like it. Synthesizers aren't playback devices, they are tools for creating sounds. A digital emulation/software synth fails to capture the infinite variety that exists in a device which is designed to create sound. Digital emulations of a device which is designed to play sound back are WAY better... especially when then go to the trouble of emulating the look and feel.
