How to Make a New Mellotron Sound Old (with no external effects) 

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Such fantastic Mellotron sounds from Mike Pinder. Thanks for watching!

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I'm going to try out those settings. Thanks for watching!

Glad you got one; they are fun. Yeah, I find the manual a little hard to follow for some of the settings so I’m sure I missed something. Thanks for watching!

I'm still in the saving up period, but i am sooo looking forward to it. I was so enchanted the other week when i found it and first listened to the 100 standard sounds. In all my years of making music, there were only a very few when i immediately knew: i MUST have this. There are so many possibilities and the sounds are just sooo sweet. I am also glad i found this because i was not even aware you could manipulate the sounds this way. Continued enjoyment with your instrument!

@@lowandodor1150 I'm glad the video is helpful. Good luck on your Mellotron journey!!

Glad it helped. Good luck with the Mini when you get it; it's a lot of fun. Thanks for watching!

I love their pedals. I have an Accountant and a Barbershop for my bass. Such great pedals.

Great tip about using the tone knob! Thanks for pointing that out. I also didn't realize the Mellotron Micro didn't have those settings to control the motor mod.

@@neutralearth1061 These are all great tips. Thanks for sharing them! I've tried the Rewind Time feature a bunch of times and really can't get anything out of it. It wouldn't surprise me if I'm doing something wrong.

@@synthblock There is a "Rewind Enable" in the menu, I'll bet that needs to be turned on for the Rewind Time to function.

Repost of a comment that disappeared... A couple more little things you can do with the M4000D to replicate an old M400 with typical keyboard adjustment variations, is adjust each key volume by +/- 6dB. (not available on the Micro) And (I haven't tried this yet) from the manual... You can adjust the Rewind Time". "Here you can set how long it takes for the playback to start at zero again. Set a long rewind time and you can get a percussive sound." (when playing fast) Similar to an M400 tape mounted in a position where the "attack" of the instrument is a little late.

@@synthblock I tried messing with last night, and like you I couldn't get to do anything as well. I saw something in the manual about some settings that are for controlling external samples... From the Manual... Attack Time & Release Time - Some players are used to this type of setting for the sounds from different plugins and virtual instruments. This is really not a feature in a mechanical Mellotron or Chamberlin, but some users might find it useful.

Nothing beats the real thing. They each have their own personalities. Thanks for watching!

did you adjust the pinch rollers under the keys that always helps, digital mellotron sounds are to pure and not true sounds

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You can always do a factory reset to get back but it takes a few button presses to save any changes and I often forget to do it doesn’t save the changes anyway. Good luck and thanks for watching!

@@synthblock Thanks for the reply Johathan. Your tutorial is very informative. Maybe I should go ahead and jump on the grenade and experiment. Your factory reset fail safe tip makes sense. Thanks buddy. I've had my Mellotron for 5 years and still haven't scratched the surface regarding it's capabilities. Rock on.

@@stargate1555 I hear you. I think about buying one of the Sound Cards but there are still so many sounds already on the unit MkI haven’t explored enough.

This is exactly how I felt then after a couple weeks, it really opened up the diversity of the board when I mastered the settings. I basically stay inside the menu when I pick a sound and change settings depending what Im playing. Sometimes I turn the start time up or the attack time, sometimes I automate the wobble or change the lower range to play at 1/4 time instead of halftime etc.. its actually pretty fun once you learn all the settings and it makes it more dynamic like a synth

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It’s on page 3 of the manual, which I’ve copied here: "M4000D MINI short instruction guide Editing Playlists Turn the selectors so that they show ‘Entry 01’ and ‘Playlist 01’. Press ‘Select A’ and ‘Select B’ simultaneously. If you have a problem doing this, try pressing ‘Select A’ slightly before ‘Select B’. Now you are in the playlist edit menu. Here you have several choices for how to edit your Playlist. - List View Edit - Copy from Manual - Copy from Entry - Copy to Entry - Swap Entries - Copy Playlist - Swap Playlists - Rename Entry - Rename Playlist List View Edit: Here the sounds are presented in list form. Turn ‘Select A’ to choose sound A and ‘Select B’ to choose sound B. Press ‘Select B’ to save the Entry. Then the screens will show the two sounds that you have selected. Use ‘Rename Entry’ in the playlist edit menu to change the Entry name. Turn ‘Select A’ to the next Entry if you want to edit that Entry. Program as many Entries as you like, up to 32 per Playlist. Press ‘Select B’ to leave ‘Playlist’ mode. Use ‘Rename Playlist’ in the playlist edit menu to change the Playlist name. Copy from Manual: This copies the sound pair that are currently selected in ‘Manual’ mode to the currently selected Entry. Copy from Entry: Opens a sub-menu where you can copy any Entry in any Playlist to the currently selected Entry. Copy to Entry: Opens a sub-menu where you can copy the currently selected Entry to any Entry in any Playlist. Swap Entries: Swaps the current Entry against any Entry in any Playlist. The other Playlist gets the current entry. Copy Playlist: Copies the content of the current Playlist to any Playlist. Swap Playlist: Swaps the content of the current Playlist with any other Playlist. Rename Entry: A keyboard is opened where you can change the Entry name. Turn ‘Select A’ to jump between the keys and ‘Select B’ to jump between the rows. Rename Playlist: A keyboard is opened where you can change the Playlist name. Turn ‘Select A’ to jump between the keys and ‘Select B’ to jump between the rows. Each playlist can have 32 entries, and you can define 16 playlists. Leave ‘Playlist’ mode by pressing ‘Select B’. Then you are back in ‘Manual’ mode. Turn the selectors so that they show ‘Entry 01’ and ‘Playlist 01’. Press ‘Select A’ and ‘Select B’ simultaneously. If you have a problem doing this, try to press ‘Select A’ slightly before ‘Select B’."

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Yes, under the keyboard settings you can adjust the Attack and Release. But this setting affects every sound; you can't set it per patch/sound.

The differences can be subtle for sure. I'm sure like every other technology, hardware samplers will see a comeback once they're considered "vintage" enough. Thanks for watching!

Better have either the cans or your ears checked - I could hear the differences quite clearly through an Acer laptop.

@@siriusfun I re-listened wired, without blutooth, as the Sony MDR-1000X cans process sound in unspecified ways. Tbh, the differences don't bother me enough. I'd be satisfied with those on other products. I'd still love some .WAV keygroup samples to put in my hardware sampler, now sporting a bigger hard disc.

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Yes, the real Mellotron has never really stopped being manufactured. Thanks for watching!

No.

Nonsense. And CAPS are just obnoxious.