I love the EZKeys for making quick sketching and for dropping patterns in a song, but I think the price point for the mellotron is too high. It is kind of gimmiky. Mod is right, You can't use the flutes because your going to end up doing strawberry fields or in my case attempting to do it.
 
EZKEYS is also great for building a chord sequence and dragging it to a silent chord mode of a guitar vst then use the keyboard to strum or finger pick. 

$179. Pass.
 
On sale 50% off. Pass.
 

You can buy the expansion if you own any other ezkeys.

bluzdog
John Paul Jones had a love / hate relationship with his mellotron. He said it was completely unreliable and he never knew what to expect when it came time to play it at a show. It was either awesome or dreadful.
 
Rocky

Heh....I know what JPJ was talking about....I was standing very close to the front of the stage at a Zeppelin concert back in the 70's.  They were playing "The Rain Song". Half way through the song, sparks erupted out of the back of the Mellotron JPJ was playing and it died instantly.

Bonzos Ghost
Heh....I know what JPJ was talking about....I was standing very close to the front of the stage at a Zeppelin concert back in the 70's.  They were playing "The Rain Song". Half way through the song, sparks erupted out of the back of the Mellotron JPJ was playing and it died instantly.

A Spinal Tap moment! 
 
But hey, if you're really Bonzo's ghost, wouldn't you have been towards the back of the stage? 
 
Anyway, it's amazing those things ever worked at all, given the sheer mechanical complexity.  Ah, the days before digital ... we sometimes forget how good we have it now.
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

Eddie TX

Bonzos Ghost
Heh....I know what JPJ was talking about....I was standing very close to the front of the stage at a Zeppelin concert back in the 70's.  They were playing "The Rain Song". Half way through the song, sparks erupted out of the back of the Mellotron JPJ was playing and it died instantly.

A Spinal Tap moment! 
 
But hey, if you're really Bonzo's ghost, wouldn't you have been towards the back of the stage? 
 
Anyway, it's amazing those things ever worked at all, given the sheer mechanical complexity.  Ah, the days before digital ... we sometimes forget how good we have it now.
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

I find it hilarious these days that people whine about having to haul around a laptop and 3 or 4 pieces of hardware because it doesn't all fit in their backpack. I used to haul a truck load of gear to gigs...and that was just my keyboard rig. (Of course back then, it was usually a Monday to Saturday gig, not a one night nighter.)

Bonzos Ghost
I find it hilarious these days that people whine about having to haul around a laptop and 3 or 4 pieces of hardware because it doesn't all fit in their backpack. I used to haul a truck load of gear to gigs...and that was just my keyboard rig. (Of course back then, it was usually a Monday to Saturday gig, not a one night nighter.)

 
There's a guy who undoubtedly has some cool stories to tell ...
 
Obligatory on-topic comment:  the Mellotoon sounds pretty good, but I suspect there are Kontakt libraries that would be a much better value, such as the one by Hollow Sun that Glyn mentioned.  Assuming one runs the full version of Kontakt.
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 
 

Back in the 90's when my "studio" consisted in a Sony reel machine , an Akai beatbox and 2 guitars, a  Mellotron was the thing I wanted the most. And I still remember how excited I was the first time I could load a Mellotron soundfont in whichever sf2 player it was I was using a few years after I bought my first computer.
 
Now I very rarely use those sounds, but I do have the UVI freebie as well as IK's Sampletron - I particularly like the other less obvious instruments in Sampletron, such as the drum loops and guitars and vibraphones. 

Only thing missing in any of the Mellotron romplers is the liquid real time audio rendering of the original mess. Don't know how significant this is regarding the endpoint sound, but must weigh in the hardware limitations/ contributions as we regress from the prototype.
 
The original hardware was a wash of imperfections. Wow, flutter and whatever else could fail in the mechanical nightmare.
 
We can't recreate this chaos with sterile digital samples.
 
Cudos for the Tool guys for offering their interpretation for sale.  In my estimation, overpriced, remote from the original mark.
 
Can get many free mellotrons if you need a sterile sampler Synth Edit origin. As was advised by Cecilius, if you want a good mellotron commercial plug, go for M-Tron Pro. Tools is cool, but spend the cash elsewhere with better representation and versatility, given their asking price.
 
John