Making a Mellotron Library in 2021
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Published 2021-11-02
The answer is shown in the video and the end result can be purchased here: www.gforcesoftware.com/products/alex-ball-artist-e…
Huge thanks to GForce and Streetly Electronics.
All Comments (21)
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Today I realized a Mellotron was a giant version of Kontakt with lo-fi effects built in to every key. Mind blown.
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Finally something new. I love my M-Tron but typically it's for that King Crimson string sound. But this is the first time I've heard of anyone recording unique sounds. Amazing job Alex, now I'll go get my wallet! (...to the sound of me running upstairs to "WAY OUT WEST") 😂
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It truly is so crazy to hear modern recordings being tron'd. It really goes to show how the processing makes "that" sound happen. Congrats on this partnership, Alex!
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The fuzzy and warm distortions of the recorded acoustic samples give me life.
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All the content Alex Ball creates is pure platinum
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I trust you were wearing a white lab coat when doing the recording. This is the too often forgotten but absolutely essential component of any sixties record.
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I love every thing about the melllotron. My new favourite instrument.
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I am completely blown away with a sounds from melotron, an instrument I have not even heard of. What an awesome invention which has a charm to this day.
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Bloody hell. Mate, you’ve blown my mind. This is flippin’ excellent and if you were already in high regard now you’re in orbit!! Nice work. What a channel 👍🏻
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Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues actually worked at the Mellotron factory for a year before joing the band. He knew the inner workings and knew how to fix the problems when they popped up. The Moodies put out 7 platinum albums with their famous etheric sounding tunes.
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That funk track really shines with the raw melotron vibe. It make the analogue synth sound even more analogue.
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so cool!!!!
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"Do not use with this lid open" - you madlads!
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You, Alex, are the sonic hero in my books!
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Am I the only one who absolutely loves the bits of wow and flutter presented?
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It’s almost uncanny the relationship between this Mellotron and say the very collected Casio SK-1, or a sampler that doesn’t ‘time-stretch’ like an Akai S-20. The ‘multi-Timbre-alaty’ of these samples and their constant pitch and speed per key, along with the exponential relationships of those motors, as up one octave gives you likely double the tape speed, so up one octave pitch-wise plays in half the time. It has an effect on the samples similar to how a slide rule treats numbers and that’s really fun.
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Given the mechanical quirkyness of the Mellotron I am always surprised how good it works.
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Alex this is top tier information as always but I must say this is some of your best music to date. Really good compositions and I hope they're on streaming services!
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We absolutely LOVE Mellotron! We use a vintage M400 (with 4 different tape frames) on our recordings. Along with 3 digital Mellotrons (with 5 different sound cards) many Mellotron apps. You can never have too much Mellotron.
