I’m like digging this!
I have to admit that with my big ham-hands, it’s easy to hit too many notes unintentionally on an iPhone 14, but such is having a small screen. That said, it is totally impractical to haul a full mellotron around, and plugging a real one in can prove difficult at best in many instances!
But this thing sounds amazing, and plays true to the real instrument, in that there is no such thing as a sustain pedal (perhaps unfortunate while playing on a touchscreen), and the notes don’t sustain forever, because the real instrument plays a series of tape recordings that don’t sustain forever.
And in 2026, there is an extra in-app purchase of Chamberlin sounds! I forgot to add that there is an effects section, including controllable tube amp with drive and distortion, delay, and several others I can’t recall offhand. They just added the feature so that you can now use a MIDI keyboard, which is way cool. (Now for me to actually get a MIDI keyboard…!)
Granted, I’ve never seen or played a real mellotron personally, but this app is a hoot!
But this thing sounds amazing, and plays true to the real instrument, in that there is no such thing as a sustain pedal (perhaps unfortunate while playing on a touchscreen), and the notes don’t sustain forever, because the real instrument plays a series of tape recordings that don’t sustain forever.
And in 2026, there is an extra in-app purchase of Chamberlin sounds! I forgot to add that there is an effects section, including controllable tube amp with drive and distortion, delay, and several others I can’t recall offhand. They just added the feature so that you can now use a MIDI keyboard, which is way cool. (Now for me to actually get a MIDI keyboard…!)
Granted, I’ve never seen or played a real mellotron personally, but this app is a hoot!
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You should get this
If you make music on garage band and you like prog rock then this is the app for you even if you dont have the premium the 3 presets you get are cool and you can have 2 tape tracks play at the same time
Not many presets for the price
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Thank You!
iPhone Air update has corrected all issues discussed. Fingerlab also took the time to contact me! Thank You!
Too hard to miss black keys
It’s impossible to hit white keys without accidentally hitting the black keys in between. You don’t have to touch over an actual black key, the app treats everything chromatically. If you try to touch way down at the end of the key to avoid the black key, the app thinks you’re trying to close it, so the whole keyboard starts moving/trying to close the app. Unusable without some sort or other controller, which I don’t have. USELESS.
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