King Crimson Robert Webb Mellotron v2 

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Your album Garden Shed is absolutely fantastic!! Greetings from Brazil!

Thanks for the message, Johnny. I found Mellotrons reliable (mostly). It was the Minimoog that was often unstable and gave the most problems (in the 70s). wLove, R

Thanks for your support, Jorge. I don't suppose we'll play Baja again (sadly). R

Hello Robert, I've always loved the different sounds a Mellotron can offer and since I can't afford an M4000, I must say I'm very satisfied with the VSTs of many of them sounds in the M-Tron Pro library from G-FORCE which you probably already know!! www.gforcesoftware.com/products/m-tron-pro

Daniel Dan Foisy Hi Daniel. No... I don't know that one. Thank you. I'll give it a listen. Busy now working with The Samurai of Prog on a follow up album to The Imperial Hotel. Sadly, there was only a small amount of Mellotron work on that album... but I'm always keen to include the Mellotron when ever possible! PS Best contact for me is FB site (of England Webb). Cheers!

Robert Webb I have the 24 minute long song "The Imperial Hotel" by England. but that's must be something else

Me too, all "Garden Shed" album is fantastic, but for me "Three Piece Suite" is the band's masterpiece and specifically Webb's Mellotron masterpiece.

no

Except when it doesn't. They were/are finicky machines.

untill it doesn't.

I don't think anyone got OP's JoJoke...

It feels good to be a music and video game geek right now.

court of the crimson king was the best,especially the dance of the puppets

Waiting for something like: "Aaaaah! That mellotrono cost 5000 dollu!" :D

More like "merotorono"

Altura: ~ I personally bought a download of the "SampleTron" software-instrument made by the "I K Multimedia" company, and I have been fairly happy with it. The sample-libraries for that software typically have extended ranges for the included pre-sets -, not just a keyboard of a mere 3 octaves like an actual Mellotron. Also, the SampleTron has 16 channels per "instance" of the software, which allows "layering" of as many as 16 pre-sets -, or (more usefully) the assigning of different pre-sets or "pre-set layers" to different MIDI channels, which is very helpful for changes during a performance. Additionally, the software offers a good "effects"-section; and various "sound sculpting" capabilities. For instance, this latter feature can be used to create a stereo-pair of "detuned" pre-sets, and thus enabling a "stereo 'doubling' " effect (which was ACTUALLY widely-used by bands such as King Crimson or Genesis on their early studio-recordings). ~ In-all-honesty, I think that only about 1/3 of the included pre-sets are what I would consider to be "actually useful"; and of-course a player WOULD need to have a good "software host"-computer or facsimile, and a MIDI keyboard in-order, in-order to use the software. However, I bought my copy of SampleTron on-sale for only about $40; and even from the I K website itself, it is still available for about $64. That price CERTAINLY beats paying about $2000 for a modern "digital Mellotron", and is a WHOLE LOT less money (and MUCH less bother) than buying and up-keeping a real "analog" Mellotron.

Mellotron actually make a "Melotron mini digital" that sounds pretty spot on, and I presume use the original stock recordings on the melotron tapes. Couple of thousand. Not cheap by everyday standards but vastly cheaper than buying an oriigiinal tape melotron and then the continual expensive maintainance they need (being mechaniical devices with tape that invariably wears out constantly)

A 19th century steam locomotive required less maintenance than a Mellotron... but didnt sound quite as sweet.

G-Force software do perfect Mellotron and Chamberlin VSTs for an affordable price and these include little-used sounds like wineglasses, guitar and clarinet.

It's a challenge if you don't want to faff around with a laptop and midi controller, especially onstage! There's a few Mellotron keyboards these days at least, but they are all £900 upwards, which for a hard-coded sampler is a bit annoying!

Robert Webb Thanks For The GREAT ORIGINAL MUSIC. I Loved All Of It.

EMI tape @ 1"

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MegaJohnhammond I miss my 1970s chord organ : A blower fan, a manifold with keyboard keys, and reeds or some tone generating thingies. I loved it. I miss it.

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Tf did you mean dude?

I think you're looking for the wrong kind of "tape" video.

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The album is Garden Shed, by England, the song im not to really sure

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Yes, and I like to get my teeth into interesting things! Always have!

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+Meteotrance Depends on your definition of cheesy. I think a lot of new digital instruments are cheesy. I do see the point in your argument, though.

This is another interresting point of view, but your right, digital is cheezy on it's on way, does'nt mean that it was bad. The Mellotron sound well in Starway to Heaven or Night in White Satin from the Moody blues, but on some tracks it's clearly not good, same thing for the DX7 and FM synth, in the right hand it sound well and other sound bad.