I don't understand a word, but already this is the best demo I've seen. Straight into the sounds and what i don't understand in words, i understand in practical demonstration. Well done sir! You have broken all language barriers. Great demo! And i want one!
これは素晴らしいです。完璧なデモンストレーションです。 私は日本語を話すことができませんが、このビデオでは話す必要はありません。 ありがとうございました! もちろん、この楽器も買いたい! This is fantastic- a perfect demonstration. I am unable to speak Japanese, but with this video I don't need to. Thank you! And of course, I want to buy this instrument! 🙂🎵🎹
@melomane20102 жыл бұрын
Here's a funny story that may appeal to other Mellotron fans. Back in 1986-7, Casio came out with a sampler called the SK-5. Most professional samplers at that time cost thousands of dollars, but the SK-5 was $75 new. So I bought it 😊I spent days trying to find a single note of just a Mellotron being played that was long enough that I could make a decent sample of it. Finally I did but it was damned hard to find and I couldn't tell you where I found it. For a while I was living the good life with a big loud Mellotron sound that annoyed most people but was heaven to me. Fast forward almost 40 years and now I have a hard drive full of Mellotron samples. I can still play the intro to "Watchers of the Skies" which still makes me happy 😀
@cuda426hemi2 жыл бұрын
freakin' hilarious because we were all broke-ass Fairlight Mellotron dreamers. Since King Crimson and then the Moodys who actually got their Mellotron used from KC i've chased the Mellotron - I had cheap Yamaha keyboard around same time - a little black thing with some colored buttons but screw that - it had a little mic and sampling function as well as a line in/out for under $100 BAM - I was blowing bottles into it and nailed Strawberry Fields !!! I stole some mellotron from the fanTASTIC long notes on Cirkus and In The Wake Of Poseidon LPs Today? I use the stupid cool Mellotoons mellotron in Logic and Garageband all the pre-sets and versions are there... Also have the real Leslie plug-in from IK for my inner No Matter What, or It Don't Come easy. Cheers ! 🎸
@JohnLRice2 жыл бұрын
@@cuda426hemi 😎 Minor correction, I believe it was Genesis that bought a used Mellotron from King Crimson? And I'm pretty sure the Moody Blues were using a Mellotron before King Crimson even existed.
@cuda426hemi2 жыл бұрын
@@JohnLRice Technically Beatles in early '67 before Pepper, Moodys Days Of Future in '67 but as far as impact Moodys '69 To Our Childrens etc..was their breakthrough Mellotron LP after which the older LPs became hits while in same year King Crimson immediately stole the Mellotron show with their 1st LP In The Court Of; soon Strawbs went 'Tron batsh*t major riff with Hero & Heroine.The first I ever saw in concert was Crimson though,way back - two of them bad boys and they were behaving badly with the bogus voltage. 🎸
@paulydpaulyd97462 жыл бұрын
What Price in UK £ are these please ? Thanks
@paulydpaulyd97462 жыл бұрын
@Son of Ray 2 thanks
@neutralearth10612 жыл бұрын
Nice playing! We love Mellotrons! We use a vintage 1972 M400 with 4 tape racks, 2 Mellotron Micro's, an M4000D with 4 Sound Cards, and we have also used several different Mellotron App's with our iPad and iPhone. As we say, you can never have too much Mellotron!
@FabioSantilli9 ай бұрын
A great story in a little and transportable instrument. Really interesting. Thanks for this video and greetings fron Italy!
@illustriouschin2 жыл бұрын
God Hand Ujiie slaying it with two octaves in fifty different genres.
@superultrathanksmom38452 жыл бұрын
This guy is nuts…
@paulydpaulyd97462 жыл бұрын
@@superultrathanksmom3845 He carn't half Play though ! 🙂
@shmagglehammer2 жыл бұрын
Totally crushed it. Wonderfully impressive.
@tom_something2 жыл бұрын
By design, the limitation in the Mellotron's realism is mostly in the release. You can sample a perfect attack and sustain on tape, but the release on this instrument _has_ to be artificial. The tape has a given length, and when you release the key, it has to manufacture some sort of release sound, because it's not on the tape, at that precise moment in the sample. It's a challenge in design and engineering to try and make it sound close to right, but at the same time, that's the characteristic sound of the Mellotron, so you don't want it to be perfect. Many very popular musicians and bands have used the Mellotron despite having the resources to book an orchestra to record the same arrangement. Music is funny like that. We prefer a real flue to a synth flute because the imperfections in the real flute cannot be synthesized from whole clothe perfectly with current technology. And then at times we prefer a sampled flute on the Mellotron against a real flute, in some applications, because of imperfections in the reproduction.
@sub-harmonik2 жыл бұрын
crazy how they can fit all of the tape in that tiny thing. they must be very small ribbons
@zafod1012 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@erichtisnado15362 жыл бұрын
@gridsleep tiny wax cylinders!
@muppetpaster2 жыл бұрын
Exactly why it is WAY overpriced.
@jc3drums9162 жыл бұрын
Ribbons for ants.
@SPAZZOID1002 жыл бұрын
@@muppetpaster small company = higher prices
@hagehagehage2 жыл бұрын
ワウフラッターとヒスノイズがちゃんと再現されてる。すごいw
@robguitarwizard2 жыл бұрын
When are Behringer going to produce a budget version!
@doktoruzo2 жыл бұрын
They are announcing it tomorrow...but it will show up in 3 years time
@jrodohio2 жыл бұрын
@@doktoruzo Don't be rude. 5 years time.
@doktoruzo2 жыл бұрын
@@jrodohio.. lol
@melomane20109 ай бұрын
RIP Mike Pinder, Mellotron pioneer.
@johannesherrmann7972 Жыл бұрын
hands up from germany. go out and buy it. let the mellotron live. fascinating just as a Theremin.
@horststraske782211 ай бұрын
Lange habe ich gezögert, mir das Instrument als quasi Nicht-Musiker zu kaufen. Kann nur ein paar simple Akkorde auf dem Klavier. Die Magie hat mich jetzt seit ein paar Tagen gegangen genommen. 😄
Really cool little instrument! I could never justify the $1,000 price tag though unfortunately. I could more plausibly see myself paying $500 but even then it’s a bit steep.
@giancarlonardoni76412 жыл бұрын
Grazie e tanti saluti dall'Italia
@patrickbuzzo19708 ай бұрын
Ho scoperto casualmente questo gioiellino su Y.T. , da nostalgico degli anni 60 , quasi quasi ci farò un pensierino. Peccato che il 3 ottave costi una follia ,ma per mille euro in meno rinuncio alla terza ottava . Cordiali saluti. Patrick
@claumaff4 ай бұрын
The micro mellotron is simply wonderful
@robfriedrich28222 жыл бұрын
It's a shame, that they doesn't emulate the accompaniment section of the Mellotron
@brhodes02 жыл бұрын
"MUSIC FOR SCHOOLS" UK 70s and 80s. So many Educational programmes used these sounds.
I’m sorry but 1000 for this is BONKERS! I bought the Mtron Pro ran through a controller for a tenth of the price! What is going on here?!
@apollo.c.vermouth56722 жыл бұрын
Sounds amazing. Hope that octave switch is good-quality though, it's gonna get a lot of use ...
@JohnLRice2 жыл бұрын
The switch feels reasonably robust to me but only time will tell.
@SPAZZOID1002 жыл бұрын
Plug in an 8 octave controller. Problem solved.
@ambientideas12 жыл бұрын
すごい楽しい!ありがとう。
@AnthonyMonaghan2 жыл бұрын
Does it play the intro to "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill"?
@JohnLRice2 жыл бұрын
No, it's on expansion card 02 and expansion cards don't work with the Micro. You'd need to get one of the more expensive M4000D models (full sized, Mini, or Rack)
@souityjoli18562 жыл бұрын
I like that kind of if instrument. But who is making it? Amaha? Roland? Korg?
@Mouraxy2 жыл бұрын
Apparently mellotron has been used more often in music productions, or am I wrong? For example: In the performance of Above & Beyond Acoustic - Full Concert Film Live from Porchester Hall (Official), at 16:24 a mixed sound of piano and flute starts playing in the background, is it the mellotron?
@JohnLRice2 жыл бұрын
Maybe? Certainly lovely music! I checked the time stamp you gave and didn't really hear it but looking at the end credit reel it states that one of the instruments Tim Hutton plays is a Mellotron.
@Mouraxy2 жыл бұрын
@@JohnLRice Right? I also thought the music was lovely (actually a lot of it, because there are a lot of good ones in there). About the comment, I really think it sounds like the Mellotron in flute mode (mkii). I watched the concert again and noticed that the instrument that makes that sound is focused quickly by the camera a few times (at 52:02, 57:45 and 1:09:09). Besides this sound (piano mixed with flute) being present almost entirely in the mentioned concert, I also noticed it in the meantime in other songs listed below). Snow Patrol, Life on Earth in 2:13 and Two Worlds Apart by Kohta Yakamoto in 0:28 (there are many other recent productions). Anyway, thanks John, this "case study" was fun. I don't know if you or anyone else will come back to answer this comment in the future (confirming whether it is indeed a Mellotron or not, with the new evidence I cited). But that's it :) Thanks again!
@JohnLRice2 жыл бұрын
@@Mouraxy My obsessive/compulsive nature shall not be denied answers! 😅 Thanks for the additional time stamps and I can see that the keyboard being played is definitely and electronic/synth type one, and looks really familiar. At first I thought it might be a black Mellotron Micro but it looks to be a 3 octave keyboard (the Micro is only 2 octaves) and the body of a 3 octave Mellotron Mini is a lot deeper behind the keys so that's out. The orange glow of the tiny bit of the keyboard's control panel we can see at the far left looks familiar though and could maybe be a Roland controller keyboard but the one I think it is has writing directly above the keys for various functions but no writing can be seen at the timestamps where he is playing so I wasn't sure. Throughout the show, like between 1:00:00 -1:04:00 for instance, you can see the backside of what he is sitting at while playing Mellotron sounds and it looks similar to a black Mellotron M400, but a real Mellotron wouldn't have a synth style keyboard like that. Scanning through further I finally found a couple good shots of the keyboard when he was playing the bells instead, and I'm sure now it's a Roland A-49 MIDI controller keyboard! 🙌 (see it at at 53:21 and 56:18). I own one so I'm very familiar with them. Of course why wasn't there writing above the keys during the close up shot of him playing but there was writing visible when he was playing the bells? I'll guess that since this concert was shot over 4 days that while reviewing the footage after the first show or two someone in production thought that it should be hidden more so the writing was erased or painted over for the later shows? (I'd guess that the video was assembled out of the best performances and shots of all four days and not necessarily in sequence) In general I'll assume that using a genuine tape Mellotron wasn't available or not convenient enough but just having a digital Mellotron or other various electronic devices clearly visible on stage would break the "Acoustic illusion" they wanted to create so they made a "Mellotron façade" and filled it with electronics? 😏 So, the mystery still remains as to what device was actually producing the Mellotron sounds and was it inside the big black box or maybe even off stage somewhere? It could be anything I suppose from one of the Mellotron M4000D models, to one of the Memotron models, or a laptop running GForce’s M-Tron Pro software, or possibly even an iPad running one of the apps from Streetly or Mellotron? 🤷♂🤓
@Mouraxy2 жыл бұрын
@@JohnLRice That's it! Because of your sharing of your knowledge, I am getting my doubts answered and my curiosity that I have had for years (yes, years). So, thank you! About the instrumental question, you solved the puzzle, it really is a Roland A-49 MIDI controller, your observation of the new time stamps was amazing (I really didn't notice it). Now, the black box lol, I think the same as you, I believe it is just an aesthetic issue or even support, not to distract the audience and support the keyboard. The Mellotron was too expensive, so they made a fake one haha. But who knows? Since the instrument is a controller, as you pointed out, they are probably using some hidden software or hardware to make the flute/mellotron sound. I agree with you 100%. My guess is that a plugin/vst is simulating the flute/mellotron sound of the keyboard. All the magic is in 4:51 on the left ;) Now, what is the software? And especially what effect is used? Many, many songs and soundtracks are using this repeated timbre and rhythm (of the flute) to enhance and strengthen their musical background, I would even say it is becoming a trend in music production. If one day you discover what this effect is, please come back and tell me 😅 Thank you so much for taking your time answering me 🖖🤜🤛
@JohnLRice2 жыл бұрын
@@Mouraxy Glad I could help! 😎 I often enjoy trying to solve a musical or technical mystery! 🤓 If you have a Facebook account Tim Hutton is there as timhuttonmusician so maybe you could write him and ask him what he used? And in case you are interested, I have several demo videos on my KZbin channel of the sounds in my M4000D digital Mellotron and also a couple videos featuring the Mellotron Micro. They are all collected into a playlist titled "MELLOTRON Demos" so if you have the time to listen through them (some are pretty long and the playing is often marginal 😊) and you hear a sound you want more info on just drop a comment on that video and I'll try to help! 👍👍
@patrickbuzzo19708 ай бұрын
Does it have all the sounds like his bigger 3 Octaves " brother " ? Thanx to anybody who can give me this information .
300$ and they would sell A LOT... 1000$ they're crazy...
@thecrackedsky2 жыл бұрын
Totally agree! It’s essentially a storage chip probably the size of a micro sd - 1000?!!!?!
@illustriouschin2 жыл бұрын
They sell everything they make.
@seanchristophersynthesizer69992 жыл бұрын
I also agree that $1000 is insane for this......especially with the dark cloud of financial uncertainty looming ahead. $399 and they'd have a winner IMO.
@apexone55022 жыл бұрын
Agreed. For a grand, I’d expect a full sized keyboard with more bells and whistles compared to what’s being offered.
@erichtisnado15362 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's pretty steep. The IK Multimedia SampleTron is close enough for me, and I think it clocks in at $100. Yeah, its a VST, so live performance might be an issue. I love the gritty Mellotron string sounds, being a massive Yes fan.
@brucebaldy2 жыл бұрын
good sound
@kurikokaleidoscope2 жыл бұрын
すばらしい ⚘
@alfredrivera489510 ай бұрын
Proves most songs are in the key of M.
@daytime55902 жыл бұрын
100音色! 再生時間対策にスーパートロンモードつけたりして いじってたら1日あっという間かも
@trouaconti78122 жыл бұрын
This will be on sale in 6 months to a year for 5-600 usd
@JohnLRice2 жыл бұрын
? It's been selling for many years for around $1000. 🤷♂
@drake1011 Жыл бұрын
wrong lol
@brelfpv14372 жыл бұрын
押し過ぎたら降圧すると聞いたけどそれもシミュレートされているのだろうか?
@ghasmiller2 жыл бұрын
Are keys really that expensive ?
@kokopelli3142 жыл бұрын
So, is this a soundfont player?
@ろっ-x6m2 жыл бұрын
アフタータッチ付きにマイチェン?miniにも付くのかな
@romanparshin56482 жыл бұрын
После King Crimson очень захотелось эту штуку
@craigbrowning94482 жыл бұрын
It's too bad there wasn't English ( and other Non-Japanese language) subtitles on this video
@annother33502 жыл бұрын
The auto-generated english subtitles are good enough
@craigbrowning94482 жыл бұрын
@@annother3350 When the exist.
@deftcoleman05522 жыл бұрын
2:46 Radioactivity?
@DmitryGorbushin2 жыл бұрын
Not really. For Radioactivity Kraftwerk used Vako Orchestron Model A.
@eleven92862 жыл бұрын
It sounds as good as any VST, cool piece of kit, but not worth the price tag in my opinion.
@apexone55022 жыл бұрын
That’s what I was thinking. I have Mellotron sounds via various VSTs, via Logic’s stock sounds, and via the Mellotron plugin in the MPC Live 2. I’m not going to be compelled to spend a stack on what they’re offering when I have similar options. They’d have to offer extras that go beyond what I currently have in order for me to be intrigued.
@ericmorel14142 жыл бұрын
And the worst for that price tag, they don't include any effects...... If they were out of memory or place, they could just leave out a lot of useless sounds that repeats themselves.
@impablomations2 жыл бұрын
£885 is just ridiculous. I paid less than a quarter of that for the IK Sampletron which also includes Orchestron, optigan, various Chamberlins and more. AND it has more functionality
Good show case thanks. Generally Horrible and harsh sounds. The Harp sounded great though. The sax sounded usable.
@continentalgin2 жыл бұрын
That's my impression, too. Harsh sounds.
@blipblip882 жыл бұрын
Find an old sampler keyboard like the Casio SK series, blow play a note with your recorder into the onborad mic, and bang! You have a mellotron sound.
@SPAZZOID1002 жыл бұрын
No
@RosssRoyce2 жыл бұрын
Daijobu!
@gianmariacurtoni3792 жыл бұрын
Great instrument. It is possible to tune it at 438 Hz?
@CeresKLee2 жыл бұрын
Certainly - the pitch control knob?
@clintbahr9 ай бұрын
❤
@2ES_2 жыл бұрын
1000 eur for a sample player? wow
@Moon-kr1pw2 жыл бұрын
🙏
@WrvrUgoThrUR2 жыл бұрын
Pretty cool. But it’s like……Yeah…I want a DX7, but hold the operators.” To me, Mellotron = wonky physical tape loops.
@Daring2Win2 жыл бұрын
The only instrument for which I struggle to see the appeal. Any ROMpler from the past 40 years can play samples poorly, which is literally the only hallmark of the Mellotron. The neo Mellotron should expound on the legacy of the cutting edge original concept & create a HARDWARE platform for third party developers to integrate VST quality sample libraries into sleek hardware devices for moderate prices (some inadvertent poetry). That would be an imaginative way to move the concept forward. This is a novelty toy.
@rcapracp38672 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I was like "oh cool I'll pick one of these up for $200 or whatever" Lol $1k GTFO
@SPAZZOID1002 жыл бұрын
This was made by a very small company, and priced accordingly.
@TheIvoryman2 жыл бұрын
I certainly can understand why someone, today, would struggle to see the appeal of the Lo-Fi sound of a Mellotron. I appreciate how far instrument manufacturers and software instrument developers have come in the last 50 years, since the Mellotron was popular. I owned a Mellotron and several synthesizers through the years. Back in the 70s the only way you could achieve a full ‘string section’ type of sound was with a Mellotron. Synthesizers were only capable of playing one note at a time (Minimoog) or two notes at a time (ARP Odyssey). The electronic ‘string machines’ like the ARP String Ensemble and several others by different manufacturers, like Crumar and Freeman, etc. truly didn’t do realistic type of string sounds, at all. So, we had to deal with what we had. Never the less, the Mellotron crept it’s way into countless recordings. Depending on not only the musician playing it but also the engineer recording a Tron, it could sound fairly convincing, back in the day. And in other recordings it just had a signature sound that many have just embraced. Some people will always love nostalgia. That’s true because companies like Korg, Behringer and others have released hardware reproductions of the Minimoog, ARP Odyssey, ARP 2600, Prophets and others. And software companies have released versions of these same synths and others, as well. So, Lo-Fi though it may be, the Mellotron has placed its indelible stamp on the music world, from its origins decades ago, even to the music of today.
@napomania2 жыл бұрын
very nice. but too few keys for me
@seanspartan20232 жыл бұрын
驚くばかり!
@Dolores50002 жыл бұрын
Want
@rhythmjones2 жыл бұрын
What's the advantage of a digital hardware Mellotron as compared to the great many plugins out there?
@GargeBarge2 жыл бұрын
And playing them on a midi keyboard that was $120? Lol not much difference at all besides saving almost 90%
@themountainradio2 жыл бұрын
Yeah this is insanely overpriced. Based on what it is I expected a $150-$200 price tag. I'm blown away to see that it's $1500. What a ripoff.
cool but too expensive to consider. Plenty of alternatives, VST, Ipad, Sampler/packs
@SPAZZOID1002 жыл бұрын
This is hardware.
@TheIvoryman2 жыл бұрын
You want a Mellotron sound? For less money you can buy an iPad and IK Multimedia’s Sampletron. Then you can also purchase, and/or download for free, thousands of more high quality samples, soundfonts and modeled instruments. I have been playing out professionally using my iPad and two keyboard controllers for years. And I have more sounds at my disposal than most of the expensive keyboards from all the major players. I have all I could ever want.
@SPAZZOID1002 жыл бұрын
This is hardware.
@TheIvoryman2 жыл бұрын
@@SPAZZOID100 I don’t understand your response. Are you asking me a question? What do you mean ‘This is hardware’?
@YlowX72 жыл бұрын
This is just like Hainbach's M-Tron plugin, but his plugin has more features, plus additional features for a premium licensed version.
@JohnLRice2 жыл бұрын
Sure but there are advantages to using a Mellotron Micro (or other hardware Mellotron model) over using a plugin. 😎 It all depends on preferred workflow and other needs.
@SPAZZOID1002 жыл бұрын
This is hardware though.
@justani2 жыл бұрын
2:49 mac起動音
@cafesad2 жыл бұрын
かなりリアルで、サンプラーみたいですね。音が良すぎて、あまりメロトロンぽく無いです。
@doordedeur2 жыл бұрын
Why buy a separate keyboard for low quality samples? A DSP-effect in a modern workstation can do the same.
@sgtscheetje2 жыл бұрын
Because of the wonderful sound. More haunting and mystic than the HQ samples.
@foljs58582 жыл бұрын
@@sgtscheetje Dude, this is using samples too. It's a digital ROMpler with mellotron samples, not actual tapes playing