Mellotronists

Wow, delightful description, Jon!

>A question - is
>the Roland unit available in rack-mount or is it strictly a keyboard
>or expansion card unit?

The M-VS1 is a 1U rack mount, fairly small.  Basically it's a power supply 
and output stage around the contents of the "Keyboards of the 60's/70's" (I 
think!) JV-series card.  I don't know if the card works in the JD.  In the 
M-VS1 there are NRPNS/RPNS that you may be able to coax into doing 
something, but I haven't gone there, as I'm out of my depth with MIDI as 
soon as we get beyond talking about channels and ports (I'm just happy when 
sounds come out when I want them to).

>...not that I'm anal about achieving perfection or anything.

I gave that up a long time ago.  I've already achieved perfection.  It's 
boring.  So now I screw up on purpose.

>Once again, thanks to Mr. Chamberlin, and the Bradleys and the
>Streetly people and everybody I've neglected to mention for bringing
>this glorious obsession into being.  The more I hear the real thing,
>the more I love it.

I vamped for a while the other night on the EMI (some rollers have issues 
and it has a weak motor), running through an old Korg DRV-3000 (a very 
dirty digital reverb).  Crappy playing, crappy reverb, keyboard that needs 
work...still was a delight, at least to me.  There's definitely something 
about these machines.  But we knew that.  :-)

>I managed to persuade the band to do "The Rain Song" in addition
>to "Dancing Days."  Give me a little time to get programs worked up
>and to get a decent live recording of it, and I promise you, I will
>upload or post a file that will amaze you with the Mellotronistic
>power of my little Korg!

Please do.

...kl...
M400 #805 - needs use
M400 #1037 - [needs motor]
EMI E4 #103S - [needs respect]

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