The Mellotron Group

Well, that begs the question, if Streetly has the "protection masters,"  
then who has the MASTERS? If Markus has them and uses them to make the sounds  
for his new digital Mellotron sample player ( I refuse to call it the  
M4000 or a Mellotron) and it uses 24 bit uncompressed samples from those  
masters, it should sound OK I would think, and probably better than what's  
offered by Clavia.
 
I'm skeptical as to whether there will be a huge market for it. I am  
curious to hear it, though I imagine it sounds great. I just wonder what the  
attraction is? If all of the same sounds are now offered by Clavia ( I think 
you  can get them uncompressed now) and the Clavia machines can play those 
samples  and a jillion other sounds, then all you are buying is cosmetics.
 
I never thought there would be that big a market for the Memotron. I wonder 
 how many of them have been sold. So if all of the bands/individuals that 
ever  wanted a stand alone Mellotron sample keyboard purchased a Memotron... 
or if  even half of them did (hell, a fourth of them), how big is the market 
going  to be for another digital Mellotron emulator? Are folks that have 
Memotrons  going to stick them in a closet or on eBay and then by Markus' 
machine? I'm sure  Markus' sample library and pricing will be vastly superior to 
the Memotron's,  but still, is that going to be enough? There is no 
question that everything he  makes is first rate, and I'm sure the quality will be 
there, but are there going  to be enough people that need that difference? I 
guess it really is attractive  to all of the people that really would like 
to have the real thing but don't  have the money. However, at some point you 
will have substantially  fulfilled that market and once those buyers have 
the sample library, what else  is there to sell to the customer base?
 
It would be interesting to know how many people purchased a  Clavia 
keyboard just to get the Mellotron sounds.
 
Frank
 
 
In a message dated 7/25/2010 10:37:03 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
tronbros@aol.com writes:

We  have Les's protection copies, one generation away from the MASTERS 
(sing  hallelujas) but we never use them.  They are there as a valued archive  
and have no place in regular tape production or any  simulation.