An employee of Harry Chamberlain’s, Bill Fransen, took the Chamberlain Musicmaster 600s to Bradley Brothers’ British firm, asking for improvements on the device by adding matched tape relay heads. Thus, this led to the first blueprint of the first Mellotron MKI. Pity to lose that cool on/off switch from the front panel on the Micro, but you say it has aftertouch instead of velocity?!? So many weird choices from one iteration to the next in this product line...! The Mellotron is truly unique in not just the way they were designed but also the sound they produce. No matter what the genre, they have found their way into some of the most classic pieces of music made over the decades. Thanks to innovations in technology, they have morphed into a digital form, and they now take up very little space on your computer. Whether you are a fan or immensely dislike its sound, a Mellotron is not a mere fad in the history of music, and it continues to thrive and inspire even today.

This isn't like having a digital recreation of an old synth, it's different, recreations of old synths these days are quite good, and the differences sometimes are minimal. But the differences between a tape Mellotron and a digital one are huge, so huge in fact that it makes complete sense to want a tape based unit, digital hasn't got anywhere near reproducing the complex issues and problems that a tape Mellotron has. I'm assuming that you can set all of that in the preset choices and store them, but since there is no manual online, I thought I'd just bombard you with questions for now.I've never played the Swedish M4000D, but I've heard a few in concert. Practically every Mellotronist I know, if they didn't already own real Mellotrons, would choose the Memotron over the M4000D because it sounds more authentic (we have discussed this subject at great length). The M4000D sounds very sterile. The only advantage I can see with the M4000D is the keyboard because it allegedly feels like an M400 keyboard, which is actually inferior to the MkII, M300 and M4000 keyboards. Those feel more like Hammond keyboards. Although the production of Mellotrons stopped in 1986, they were incorporated by bands in the 90s, such as Oasis and Radiohead, in their sound. How Do They Work?

this experience left me undecided. i do like the looks, the build, the displays and all. unfortunately never had a chance to play a memotron to compare. i dont like that its unnecessary wide with that extention right from the keyboard. when you carry stuff arround, every inch counts. at least,, that's what she said.

Specifications

The software and audio engine has taken 3 years to develop, but our concept of the digital Mellotron has been in development since the mid 90s. We bought parts of the original inventory from a company called 'Mellotron Digital' High-quality metal casing. Design and interface evoke classic Mellotron experience with modern conveniences. Expandable sound library. Instant layering of any two sounds. Lower price than M4000D. I'm forunate to have both the Mellotron M4000D (micro version) and the Memotron M2D. I'm cetainly no expert on the subject of Mellotrons, authentic or sample based software or hardware. I bought these two because i'ved always loved the Mellotron sounds which have haunted me for years. I shoiuld point out here after spend most of my working life stuch in front of computer screens coding all day the last last thing I want to do is sit in front of the same dam screen when it comes to music hence hardware is where I want to be for sounds!

Famous songs featuring Mellotrons include “Strawberry Fields Forever,”“Kashmir,”and “Paranoid Android.” Not to mention temperature change... how much voltage is going into it... what color shirt your wearing... the alignment of Jupiter to mars... how oh and the list goes on. Part of the charm I guess, but over time as the good ersatzplanet has suggested is not a good thing to such an instrument. Manual shows one patch per screen, as it will also tell you which library the source is being pulled from, as well as offering a meter that shows the amount of blend you have between the A and B sound bank. This mode was fun to use when creating patches on the fly, since I didn’t know what was coming up next, I was just scrolling through until I found something that caught my ear.The sale included the micro and the power supply only. Needless to say, I was surprised to find out the box is a simple brown box with some styrofoam While the list is exhaustive, and there are many notable uses of the instrument throughout musical history, Mellotrons have also made their way into the sounds of current artists such as the Foo Fighters, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, the Smashing Pumpkins, Wilco, and Air, to name a few. The Software Evolution Of Mellotrons It has our very advanced and in-house developed streaming technology for uncompressed 24 bit audio reproduction The original Mellotron evolved from a similar style of instrument, the Chamberlin, but could be mass-produced more efficiently, making it have way more of an impact on the market. The keyboard uses actual reels of tape within the unit to trigger a sampled sound.