Results for Mellotron

Tronsonics has released Stoner Planet T, a sample library which contains a single set of samples from the Hohner Pianet T electric piano.

Recorded to worn tape on vintage equipment to emulate the distinctive Mellotron character, the piano has been overdriven through a 1960s valve pre-amp.

This pack contains over 40 imaginary 70s inspired preset instruments for Kontakt 4.2.3 or later, with the emphasis on modulation (from phasers, autowah and delay to ramped lfos triggered with the modulation wheel).

The Stoner Planet sample library is available to purchase for £9.99 GBP (£8.99 GBP for registered members and £4.99 GBP for students).

More information: Tronsonics / Stoner Planet T

GForce Software has released The Streetly Tapes – Vol 1, an expansion pack for the M-Tron Pro virtual mellotron instrument.

The Streetly Tapes – Vol 1 Expansion Pack for M-Tron Pro contains 24 tape banks curated from the original EMI tape-based ‘Tron archive by John Bradley and Martin Smith and made available for the first time exclusively to M-Tron Pro users.

Transferred via the Mellotronics Skellotron, this unique expansion pack provides the last word in authenticity and is an essential add-on for the award winning M-Tron Pro, the definitive ‘Tron-centric plug-in instrument.

The Streetly Tapes Vol 1 features

• A GForce Software and Streetly Electronics collaboration.
• Tape banks from the original UK ‘Tron masters.
• Derived from original EMI tape-stock.
• 24 carefully curated sounds for M-Tron Pro.
• 35 notes per tape bank.
• Exclusively available via download – 600MB.
• 100s of patches, many from luminaries including Dean and Jarrod (I Monster) & Paul Godfrey (Morecheeba).

The Streetly Tapes – Vol 1 is available to purchase for £59.99 GBP (incl. VAT).

More information: GForce / The Streetly Tapes Vol 1

Tronsonic has released Dark Horse, a sample library with sounds from the Kawai 100-F synthesizer.

This analogue monosynth from 1980 wasn’t everyones cup of tea. Great for sci-fi effects but perhaps not the sweetest lead sounds.

With this pack, both the sawtooth and square waves (as well as white noise) have been sampled to tape in their pure form (ie no filter/modulation etc). Now you have the ability to playback this ‘mellotronized’ monosynth with full polyphony – and here is where the magic begins! A truly unique analogue/digital hybrid synth has been born…the Dark Horse…

Dark Horse includes 350 preset patches (175 for Kontakt 4.2.2 and 175 for EXS24). The library is available to purchase for £15.99 GBP.

More information: Tronsonic / Dark Horse

GForce Software has announced the release of PC versions of impOSCar2, the successor of the software synthesizer emulation of the OSCar synthesizer.

Since the original impOSCar release we’ve carefully compiled user feedback and over the course of eighteen months, in another true labour of love, we’ve incorporated the best of these within impOSCar2 creating a synth that positively oozes more character, more playability, more expression and more detailed sound sculpting opportunities than could have been imagined a few years ago.

impOSCar2 features

• Successor to the multi-award winning impOSCar.
• Two Oscillators & 13 Waveforms.
• New Mono Unison and Poly Unison Modes.
• New Aux Mod Section with comprehensive routing.
• Programmable Additive Wave Matrix Grid.
• Nine Filter Types with Drive, Cutoff, Q and Separation.
• New Chord Memory and single note retrigger.
• 6 Portamento modes with new Unison glide voice spread.
• New Unison Voice Pan.
• New Note Pan Modes.
• Programmable Velocity Responses and New Aftertouch.
• Improved Arpeggiator.
• New Instrument and Effects Versions.
• Small, Regular or Large Interface Sizes.
• New Ring Modulator.
• New Chorus Modes.
• 1000+ Patch library featuring sounds created by original OSCar users inc Billy Currie (Ultravox) Darren Price & Rick Smith (Underworld) & Paul Wiffen (the original OSCar sound designer and programmer for Stevie Wonder & Jean Michel Jarre).

The impOSCar2 is now available for Windows and Mac (VST/AU/RTAS/Standalone), priced at £139.99 GBP incl. VAT.

GForce has also released the ChamberTron, an expansion pack for the M-Tron Pro virtual instrument.

If you’re unfamiliar with Chamberlin® musical instruments, please take the time to read about them in the Original Instrument section and check out the video showing our Chamberlin instruments.

Because if you thought that tape playing instruments started and ended with the Mellotron®, you’ll probably be blown away to discover that the entire tape playing instrument genre was invented by a Wisconsin based inventor, Harry Chamberlin, back in the 1950s.

ChamberTron features

• The sounds of the legendary ChamberTron.
• Only available via download..
• Over 40 new tape banks.
• 35 Notes per tape bank.
• Optional ChamberTron Interface design.
• 100s of Patches, many from luminaries including Dean & Jarrod (I Monster), David Hentschel (Genesis & Elton John) & Jem Godfrey (Frost).

ChamberTron for M-Tron Pro is available to purchase for £69.99 GBP incl. VAT.

More information: GForce / impOSCar2 / ChamberTron

Tronsonic has released Logandy, a sample library featuring the sounds of a 1977 Italian string synth.

Logandy features

• 6 sample banks from this superb 70s string synth ‘mellotronized’ onto tape, having been recorded to a 1965 valve reel to reel using aged/worn tape.
• Use the software synthesis capabilities of ESX24 or KONTAKT to create exciting new sounds, previously unavailable from this keyboard.
• Over 60 preset patches and 10 multis for kontakt 4.2.2, and 80 patches for esx24.

Logandy is available to purchase for £5.99 GBP.

Tronsonic has also released SOURCEMOD1 & 2, a free sound library.

Some experiments with a moog source and doepfer dark energy

More information: Tronsonic / Logandy

Tronsonic has released Waveform 72, a sound library for Kontakt and ESX24.

Waveform 72 derives from the front end of a famous 70′s monosynth – all 7 waveforms from the oscillators plus pink and white noise ‘mellotronized’ onto tape by being recorded to a 1965 valve reel to reel using aged/worn tape to emulate the evocative sound of the mellotron.

Use the software synthesis capabilities of ESX24 or KONTAKT to stack these oscillators into complex polysynths, and your imagination with the modulation/filters/effects etc to create epic sounding analogue monstrosities!

Waveform 72 features

• 100 patches + 20 multis for Kontakt (requires Kontakt 4.2.2).
• 150 patches for ESX.
• Sonic character and nostalgia of the Mellotron.
• 300 MB download.

Waveform 72 is available to purchase for the introductory price of £10.99 GBP. A demo version containing some patches with one of the 7 waveforms (sawtooth triangle) is available as a free download from Tronsonic.

More information: Tronsonic