Another excellent mellotron and more. Wusik EVE. Allows 3 samples at a time and extends the range above and below the original. Not free but known to go on sale now and then or get bundled with Wusikstation... Lots of soundbanks available.
 
http://www.wusik.com/ww/products/wusikeve
 
John
 
edit   they have a demo that works for 30 minutes before restart required

Nori Ubukata's "Art Rock Basics" contains Mellotron samples and presets for Synthmaster. Being sfz based they work in any synth with support sfz just like the DSF pack mentioned above.

The best I ever heard are these very expensive samples:
http://www.mellotron.com/cdlist.htm
http://www.mellotron.com/cdrom.htm
 
Before you click, realize they cost $240 bucks (U.S.) and the cd is Akai sampler format. You'd think they would have lowered the price by now, since they were made in 1994! But maybe the fact that the tapes were not as old as the newer sampled products contributes to the quality of the sound. Plus, it was sampled by Mike Pinder (Moody Blues), who worked as a technician on Mellotrons and maintained his very well. Here's a video with a few sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVxX_ooPWSg
 
 

Spendy for sure. Was wondering your opinion if you think the price is worth an extra kick over the free wav's we can download and with a bit of effort, compile into sfz.
 
One comment from somewhere about mellotrons that stuck with me as true. Extreme mellotron freak here...
 
We got digital samples of the tapes and optical data to whatever resolution. The actual ambiance of the hardware mellotrons however was in the imperfection of the device.
 
36 or however many keys of tape loops that were wow and fluttering if they didn't break on stage..
 
Claim is that no matter how well we sample a hardware device, we will never emulate the beauty of the hardware device delivering it's real time flaws.
 
John
 

I'm an extreme mellotron freak too. Especially love those mesmerizing strings and choirs.
 
It's not worth the extra kick for me. It's over my budget as a hobbyist and don't own it. Plus, I don't have anything that can read an akai sample disc. A friend had this and it sounded great to me so I figured it was worth mentioning. I imagine that if one was to buy a new mellotron and tapes, this is what it would sound like. There are no clicky sounds and wow and flutter isn't very noticeable so I don't recommend it if you want those effects.

Ikmultimedia has sampletron. I am not a fan of tron so I can't really tell you how good it is. It is only in 32 bit. However it's samples will be able to load into sampletank 3 (64 bit only) which is now available for preorder.

Thanks Dstrenz,
 
Wow and flutter of the original would be nice, but not looking for the artifacts and noise. Will look for soundclips of these samples now that you bring them up. Possible also that something like ESC or Translator could convert the Akai format to another file type.
 
Musichoo,
 
Can't believe that a mellotron thread got this far without someone mentioning IK Sampletron. Excellent option.
 
John

JohnKenn
 
Can't believe that a mellotron thread got this far without someone mentioning IK Sampletron.

Sampletron was mentioned in the original post.

Yeah, you're right...missed that one...

Friends,
 
Wanted to put some links with the mellotrons. This probably a mystery to the young dudes as to why anyone could get fixated on a lo fi relic from the dark ages. Just gets in your blood. Duplicating some sage advice in this thread only to get links consolidated.
 
Free and not free. MTPro from Gforce is killer but limits the original range (bummer):
 
http://www.gforcesoftware.com/products/m-tron-pro
 
Wusik EVE already mentioned with mellotrons and a lot of lo fi keys. Demo download with time and preset save restrictions:
 
http://www.wusik.com/ww/products/wusikeve
 
IK’s Sampletron. Excellent tron and worth getting if you don’t already have it. Allows lush layering where Cake set us out to dry.
 
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/sampletron/
 
Some say the UVI  sample is great and was free awhile back. Screwed here because the activation mess says it is activated on my PC and the PC says there is no activation. UVI support says I’m screwed and nothing they will do except acknowledge that they got a serious problem, meaning I got a serious problem. Glad I didn’t buy the thing. Did however increase my love affair with online activation crap. Use at your own risk, especially if you are still running win XP, which they said was the terminal problem and they will not fix.
 
 
http://www.uvi.net/en/vintage-corner/mello.html
 
There are some good freebies out there that are basic romplers working off samples. Was mentioned already a good source for the wav files that you have to work to change formats depending on the format of your player..
 
http://www.leisureland.us...s/MellotronSamples.htm
 
Tapeotronic. Dev has some other good free synths as well:
 
http://www.elektrostudio.ovh.org/index.php?go=tapeo
 
 
Lots of the romplers for the mellotron are synth edit creations and have problems. Can only try them and see if they don’t crash on your system. Not all these are synth edit, but too burned out to separate them out.
 
Tapeworm:
 
http://www.tweakbench.com/tapeworm
 
Nanotron:
 
http://www.dreamvortex.co.uk/instruments/
 
 
Redtron:
 
 
http://rekkerd.org/artifake_labs-releases-redtron/
 
Stringer. Secondary link. Thing the dev might have passed on or at least out of the market. Tuning is not exact over the spectrum, but worth having. Has a nice Solina.
 
http://www.vstplanet.com/Instruments/VST_Synthesizers3.htm
 
Samples have already been covered well in this thread. Would only add Taijiguy’s sampling of the M400S tron. Freebie:
 
http://johngumpontheweb.com/Mellotron.html
 
Mellosound. Here’s a dead link claiming it’s no longer available from Batsounds. Excellent freebie unit. If you can’t find this and have to have it, PM me and can pass it on.
 
http://www.kvraudio.com/product/mellosound_by_batsounds
 
Do a Google search for RedTron and there are several free versions available. Too many beers to quantify further.
 
May this be of some use, and please fill in anything I missed.
 
Mellotrons are cool...
 
Love,
John