Mellotronists

>Message: 1
>   Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:34:32 -0000
>   From: "charel196" <charel196@...>
>Subject: Vintage Keys Keyboard version
>
> I'm somewhat surprised that most places online state that this is
>a "discontinued item" as it was just released last year and I bought
>it last summer.Maybe the market for such a tool is smaller than Emu
>thought? Anyone heard why this happened?
>
The "vintage keys" version may have been released last year, but it's 
the same underlying technology as the Proteus 2000 module, which is a 
few years old now.  E-mu appear to be dropping hardware, unfortunately - 
my local music shops tell me that the expansion ROMs for the proteus 
2000 ere blown out a few months ago, damnit, as I had intended to buy 
the "B3" and "sounds of the ZR" ROMs.  I have the Vintage ROM, and it's 
pretty good.  The mellotron sounds are OK, about as good as I've heard 
from a ROMpler box.  Except for the brass, that is, that one is really 
horrible.  A big upside to the P2000 is that if you can get hold of an 
E-mu ultra sampler, you can (can? Probably "could" at this rate!) get a 
32mb flash ram chip, that you can put your own sounds into. 
Theoretically it is possible to ditch the included sounds, and replace 
the entire instrument ROM (128mb, there are 4 slots altogether) with 
your own samples.
-- 
Norman Fay