Mellotron M4000D - Card 4

Note: I had "prematurely" posted this video a year ago but pulled it down after a week by request of the manufacturers involved. Sorry about that, all is cool now! 😎 These are the sounds available on the Mellotron M4000D expansion card number 4, which will work in the original full sized M4000D, the Mini M4000D, and the M4000D Rack. (expansion cards are not compatible with the Mellotron Micro). I made this video so people that are interested in purchasing the card will know what they are buying. ;-) Orchestron - 0:00 (single instruments) Optigan - 1:58 (single instruments) 6:30 (accompaniments) 17:17 (HiFi accompaniments) TalentMaker - 25:55 (single instruments) 27:05 (accompaniments) The sounds on this card were sourced from the excellent Pea Hicks collection available at https://optigan.com/ and are from the following vintage optical disc players and related disks: Orchestron, Optigan, and Talentmaker. Fidelity of these instruments wasn't as good as magnetic tapes based instruments like the Chamberlin and Mellotron but they have their creative uses, especially when nostalgic charm is called for. The other major difference these optical instruments share when comparing them to the magnetic tape Chamberlin or Mellotron instruments is that the optical instruments play looped samples so single notes and accompaniments can be sustained or looped indefinitely, where the tape based machines can only play a note for about 8 seconds before the tape must be rewound. On this card there are individual sounds that can be played "normally" (solos and chords as on a piano or organ etc) and then there are sounds that are to be played one key at a time because they are either pre-defined chords or an accompaniment section. Accompaniments might be a single instrument like guitar or an entire band. There are also keys that that have percussion parts, sound effects, and melodic full band fills for intros and outros. Typically the top octave's black keys have the drums and fills on them. EDIT: I recently realized that the Mellotron company has a SoundCloud account and they have a lot of examples of their available sounds, check it out!   / mellotronfactory   #mellotron #optigan