Digital Mellotron with real wood keyboard in the original Mellotron style
The Mellotron M4000D digital Mellotron resembles the classic and legendary M400. It has been very well received by the keyboard community. It has been used onstage and in the studio by many well-known artists, musicians and producers, to name a few: Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Wilco, Incubus, Queens of the Stone Age and many more...
It is a 24 bit digital uncompressed audio playbackunit with ca 100 Mellotron and Chamberlin sounds built in. Extra cartridges will be available with 100 sounds each. It has a custom built full Mellotron style wood keyboard with depth sensitivity and polyphonic aftertouch out via MIDI. The front panel user inteface has 2 TFT-displays of high quality and are capable of showing pictures of the actual instruments.
The main features of the Mellotron M4000D include:
Mellotron style wooden keyboard with depth sensitivity and polyphonic aftertouch via MIDI out
100 original Mellotron and Chamberlin lead sounds included, with IMMEDIATE access
The sounds are taken from the original first-generation tape library giving the same sound quality as the original Mellotrons made in the 60s and 70s
It has our very advanced and in-house developed streaming technology for uncompressed 24 bit audio reproduction
The software and audio engine has taken 3 years to develop, but our concept of the digital Mellotron has been in development since the mid 90s. We bought parts of the original inventory from a company called 'Mellotron Digital'
Furniture quality cabinet with hinged lid
Expansion slot gives you 100 extra sounds on special compact flash cards, all from the original archives. There will be ca 8 expansion cards released with a large variety of sounds
Two high-quality TFT displays and a backlit laser cut front panel
Our very advanced and in-house developed streaming technology for uncompressed 24 bit audio reproduction
Three gold plated balanced XLR outputs, all other connectors are gold plated for maximum reliablilty
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