Mellotronists

Doesn't the Memotron already exist in the form of keyboards that support a 
nice chunk of sampling RAM or can import Mellotron samples such as the 
CD-ROM that Dave Kean created?

The M400-like format of the Memotron is interesting, but wasn't that 
handled somewhat by the guy who made fake M400s w/ the MIDI keyboard 
controller and sold them on EBay not long ago?  Buy that, jam a sampler in 
it, and you're done.

Or a Kurzweil 2600 plus the Kean CD-ROM.  Or #805 being sampled into the 
sampler that was included with Cakewalk Project 5.

I guess my question is what the Memotron will give us that we don't already 
have in some form.  It seems like packaging to me.  But sometimes that's 
all a product is---repackaging of existing ideas.

...kl...
M400 #805 - packaged in chip board
M400 #1037 - former package for mouse pellets