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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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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All the content Alex Ball creates is pure platinum
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The fuzzy and warm distortions of the recorded acoustic samples give me life.
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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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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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That funk track really shines with the raw melotron vibe. It make the analogue synth sound even more analogue.
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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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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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I love every thing about the melllotron. My new favourite instrument.
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You, Alex, are the sonic hero in my books!
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Amazing work!! Sounds beautiful! Well done Alex and G-Force!
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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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This is so pretty to listen to. Spectacular work on this, Alex.
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I'm glad to see your expansion included in M-Tron Pro Complete! Congrats, Alex! I'm very happy for you!
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so cool!!!!
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Alex, your videos are such a credit to the world of music exploration on YouTube. Thanks for all the amazing work you do in bringing these brilliant presentations to the rest of us.
