Mellotronists

>I know this has been mentioned before, but the mp3 demos are now available
>http://www.manikin-electronic.com/products/memotron/memo_description_e.html

What is "studio" vs. "vintage"?  The "vintage" flute sounds cruddy and 
"studio" 3 violins are better but just (they probably mixed up the "studio" 
and "vintage" violin demos), "vintage" brass a bit better.  The other 
sounds are almost too clean for a 'tron; the clean violins have an edge 
that could be the MP3 encoding but maybe not.  I wonder if they give you a 
choice of two for each sound---a version that sounds...uhhh..."vintage" and 
a clean one?  Kinda like the organ state-of-disrepair emulations in the NI 
B-4, maybe?  I got your wobblies and leakage right here!  :-)

The tape attack sounds electronically reproduced on the "vintage" 
brass.  Or is that just my ears?  Maybe they simulate the tape smack 
electronically, or they could use different samples based on key velocity.

I still like the concept, though, of a small sample player that uses 
CF.  It'd be great to be able to load up samples from anywhere/everywhere 
on the PC and dump them into a unit like the Memotron via CF.  I'm sure 
that some keyboard somewhere already has such capability or will simply 
take downloads from the PC via USB or something.  I dunno - there's only 
one sample player I've ever done any research on, and it's been obsolete 
for over 25 years now.  :-)

...kl...
M400 #805 - obsolete...?
M400 #1037 - leakage...?  sounds like a personal problem...

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