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The M4000D digital Mellotron has been very well received by the keyboard community. It has been used on stage and in the studio by many well-known artists, musicians and producers, to name a few:
Used by: Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Wilco, Incubus, Queens of the Stone Age, Eels, Jackson Browne, Bruno Mars, Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes, Sean Lennon, Brendan Benson, Air, Kooks, Train, Elbow, Michael Beinhorn, Bob Rock, Raphael Saadiq, Noel Gallagher, Gotye.
Since its presentation in 2010 the digital Mellotron has been very popular at the trade shows Namm and Frankfurt Musikmesse, being selected as Mix Certified Hit at the 2010 NAMM show. It has been developed by us here at Mellotron. It is solely our own product and has features rarely seen in today's keyboards.
It is a 24-bit digital uncompressed audio playback unit 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 interface has 2 TFT displays of high quality and are capable of showing pictures of the actual instruments. The dimensions of the cabinet are 34"x19.5"5.25" (86x50x13.5cm) (WxDxH).
Specifications
- 100 instantly accessible Mellotron and Chamberlin sounds, captured from original tape sources at 24-bits, uncompressed
- Expansion slot for 100 additional sounds
- A and B sound banks simultaneously accessible, with mix control
- Controls for volume, tone, normal/half-speed play and pitch adjustment
- A, B and Master outputs available on balanced XLR and unbalanced 1/4-in line connectors
- 1/4-in. connectors for sustain, expression, and volume pedals, and for headphones
- MIDI in, out, and thru
- Dimensions: 34 in (W) x 19.5 in (D) x 5.25 in (H)
- Weight: 38 pounds
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