Comments on: Manetron – A Virtual Mellotron For iPhone & iPod touch

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:21:13 +0000

I bought it, but I not was able to made any sound. It' mute!!! What I need to do to get sound from it?

By: synthhead

synthhead — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:30:11 +0000

The really amazing thing is that they're so inexpensive you can try them both for less than the price of lunch.

By: Ron Speed

Ron Speed — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:31:42 +0000

Nonsense Phil. Less is (far) more.

I was thrilled by Manetron- far more than the rather dissapointing "Ellatron". Yes Ellatron has far more features, but I think this is its downfall- Ellatron simply isn't true to the original enough. Ellatron also doesn't make use of multisamples, which means that at times, Ellatron just sounds like another 'sampler'- not good at all.

enough said.

By: Phil Atkin

Phil Atkin — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:25:13 +0000

Very disappointing. I clicked through and bought this immediately I read the announcement, wanted it to be great but it suffers from really ugly audio glitches on keypresses and releases, so it's not really usable either for entertainment or performance. The concept of sampling the full 7 sec tape is good for the Mellotron purists, but there is truly no audible difference between the sounds here and the Mellotron-derived voices (MelloStringsm MelloFlutes etc.) on the rival Ellatron (which are looped according to their website), but the looped Ellatron sounds allow it to offer over 20 voices compared to just 3 on the Manetron.

Definitely 2nd best in the iPhone Mellotron race.