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a great hands-on instrument
Memotron is everything I wanted from a mellotron. A robust hardware instrument that you can trust. And it comes with the highly wanted authentic sounds.
First and foremost, it's an hands-on instrument that is fun to play, a big improvement to laptop and midi-keyboard or a sampler. Plug it in, turn on power - and start playing. You have your limited set of knobs, and a three octave keyboard. Both very faithful to the classical design. The keys are not weighted (they're not supposed to be either) but both the keyboard and the knobs have solid feel to it that feel like you're safe to go wild with your performance and the Memotron will work on tomorrow show just as nothing happened.
Rememberhowever, this is a digital instrument, comes with a software, and if you're allergic to menu diving - you'd better take a deep breath and read the manual when loading sounds the first time. That said, the old school LCD screen is good (not too small, the brightness is adjustable) and the menus are pretty logical which all helps. Also, you're not required to use button combinations or to memorize complicated paths like with so many modern devices that try to pack in everything they can possibly come up with.
With it's limitations - this is simply a digital mellotron, and one heck of an instrument. And the samples really sound superb to me: recorded first hand from the original tapes of several old units that have been played on some ground breaking albums back then. The additional sound collections don't come too expensive either.
First and foremost, it's an hands-on instrument that is fun to play, a big improvement to laptop and midi-keyboard or a sampler. Plug it in, turn on power - and start playing. You have your limited set of knobs, and a three octave keyboard. Both very faithful to the classical design. The keys are not weighted (they're not supposed to be either) but both the keyboard and the knobs have solid feel to it that feel like you're safe to go wild with your performance and the Memotron will work on tomorrow show just as nothing happened.
Rememberhowever, this is a digital instrument, comes with a software, and if you're allergic to menu diving - you'd better take a deep breath and read the manual when loading sounds the first time. That said, the old school LCD screen is good (not too small, the brightness is adjustable) and the menus are pretty logical which all helps. Also, you're not required to use button combinations or to memorize complicated paths like with so many modern devices that try to pack in everything they can possibly come up with.
With it's limitations - this is simply a digital mellotron, and one heck of an instrument. And the samples really sound superb to me: recorded first hand from the original tapes of several old units that have been played on some ground breaking albums back then. The additional sound collections don't come too expensive either.
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