The Mellotron Group

The SMS2 on my M4000 is not working and at this time and I have all of my  
tools packed away. I do not have any shop at the moment although I am 
currently  looking to rent a space until I can build a stand-alone building on my 
property.  I can get out a soldering iron, I suppose, but I have no means of 
tracking down  the problem. All my test equipment in a mountain of boxes in 
a storage facility  ten miles away. At the moment, the Mark II is in the 
garage. I need to get it up  a flight of stairs and the door frame has to come 
off in order to do that. My  wife has been ill for some time and my little 
sister is fighting leukemia, which  has taken about everyone else in my 
family except my mom, who gave it up to  emphysema. Getting this place in order 
has taken a lot of work. My hands are  pretty full. I am about to send off 
one of the M400s to Vancouver and that will  free up enough space to get the 
Mark II in, once I get the door frame off and  get some help to get it up 
the stairs. I suspect that will have to be done soon  as we are getting into 
the fall.
 
You may or may not know that we moved to a new (for us) home after 24 years 
 in the old one. We gave up 1/3rd of the space we had for more land, more 
privacy  and fewer stairs and another Doberman (we have 3 rescues), but most 
of all, to  be near my sister.
 
My life is very much,"day to day". I have been playing more than I  have 
for the last 40 years. True. Fewer instruments to noodle with right now  
because most are stored away for the time being. But I have been playing for an  
hour or more nearly every night and, amazingly, I've gotten better. I have 
also  been composing and recording music and writing lyrics, something I did 
quite a  bit of, long, long ago. Something might actually come of it. The 
music comes  easy, the words a bit slower. The stories are there, but phrasing 
is the issue.  I also find that writing lyrics is often like writing a 
letter. I used to always  wait a day to mail letters of a personal nature. 
Often, I would find that there  was more or less in them than I wanted to say. 
Second guessing, I suppose. I  also hate the sound of my own voice and it's 
never me I imagine singing the  words.
 
I wish Dave Seville was still alive .
 
Frank (too much shit to list)
 
 
In a message dated 9/28/2013 6:25:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
markpringnz@yahoo.com writes:

 
 
 
 
Wot no M4000 or Mark II? About time we heard  some. 


Mark



 
  
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 From:  "lsf5275@aol.com" <lsf5275@aol.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com  
Sent: Sunday, 29 September  2013 7:22 AM
Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Software vs hardware samplers



 
 

Lately I have been spending time with just two instruments... an  M400 and 
my Triton ProX... and a cheesy drum machine. No computers except to  capture 
what I'm doing.
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/28/2013 2:02:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
markpringnz@yahoo.com writes:

 

Thanks Dave but I couldn't face getting another computer  system. With 
computers and workstations I seem to get distracted away  from playing. The 
electro 4 is fairly simple and I think I will be  more likely just to play it.
Mark
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 From: Hammonddave  <hammonddave2004@yahoo.com>; 
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com  <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>; 
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Off  topic Software vs hardware samplers 
Sent: Fri, Sep 27, 2013 2:08:38 PM  



 
 
One word:  Logic.  

David 
 

On Sep 27, 2013, at 1:37, Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com> wrote:




 
 
I probably will in the end Andy. It has a fairly good  action and the one I 
tried out had a quite useable piano and a very  nice harpsichord. The free 
sample library is also a plus. A  good piano will cost at least $20,000 
compared to $3700 for  the Electro. ( Kiwi dollars )


Mark



 
  
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 From: Kinchmusic <kinchmusic@aol.com>
To: "newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com"  
<newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent:  Friday, 27 September 2013 7:35 PM
Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Software vs hardware samplers



 
 
Nah, get yourself the Electro Mark.
 I have the Electro 3 and am really happy with it.  Lightweight, so simple 
to use. Great organs, acoustic pianos, Rhodes  variants, trons, all very 
useable particular when driven through the  on board eqs and amp/effects sims. 
And if that's not enough, you can  download from the huge sample library for 
free from the Nord  website.


Andy K

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On 27 Sep 2013, at 07:26, Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com> wrote:




 
 
Seems to work well but I don't really like computers. Some  times I think I 
should just buy a really good piano.


Mark



 
  
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 From: "fdoddy@aol.com" <fdoddy@aol.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com 
Sent:  Thursday, 26 September 2013 11:21 PM
Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Software vs hardware samplers



 
 
I'm sure we  have different needs for these instruments, but I couldn't do 
my  job without Kontakt.  It's deep, but it's robust  and well designed.  
Anyone who owns the Chamber Winds, Angry  Strings or Plucked piano for their 
tron  is essentially playing a Kontakt patch :>)


fritz







-----Original  Message-----
From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
To:  newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, Sep 26, 2013 3:57 am
Subject:  Re: [newmellotrongroup] Off topic Software vs hardware samplers


 
 
 
 

 
Well I have been messing about with Kontakt 5 for few  days and will be 
saving up for the Electro 4 or something  similar.



 
  
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 From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
To:  mellold <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> 
Sent:  Tuesday, 24 September 2013 8:25 AM
Subject: [newmellotrongroup]  Off topic Software vs hardware samplers



 
 
 
I was trying out the Nord Electro 4 HP73 at the week end  which I really 
liked. However it is really just a keyboard that  plays back samples. I have a 
weighted action midi keyboard and a  PC already and for a 10th of the price 
could use Kontakt 5. Has  anybody on the list used both? Any thoughts?


Mark