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Sample CDWhen we released the New M-Tron Tape Banks Vol 1 we seriously thought that we'd exhausted almost all possibilities of finding any more well preserved Tron Tapebanks,such was the lengthy process surrounding the creation of this initial CD. However, we didn't bank on Klaus Hoffmann-Hoock, a supreme Tron aficionado who contacted us announcing that he had a personal library amassed from his large collection of instruments, and wondering if we might be interested in them. We are amazed at the quality of these sounds, all of which had been lovingly denoised, scaled and tuned, yet still retain all of the necessary warmth and character. M-Tron Tape Banks Vol 2 provides M-Tron VST owners with a lavish collection of 24 rare and sought-after sounds including several custom tapebanks specially recorded for Tangerine Dream, Frank Zappa, Yes, plus a carefully constructed tapebank faithfully recreating the Genesis' Watcher of the Skies string, brass and bass accordion pad. With this in mind please listen to the demo.Listen to the Nu-Tron Sounds Vol 2! (Radio interference not included) Download the NuTronSoundsVol2.mp3 file now! (2.5Mb) The demo contains: Sound Effects Roll, "All You Need Is Love" Brass "Watcher Of The Skies" Bass Accordion and Violins patch, plus 15 Choir. "Entangled" Augmented 8 Choir, Tron Piano Tangerine Dream ARP Guitar & ARP Trombone Sounds featured:
15 Choir THE TRON - My Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind by : Klaus Hoffmann-Hoock Klaus playing a 1965 Mk II. Yes, I frankly confess: I have been a real Mellotroniac since that day in 1972 when I saw that huge brown "organ", a Mk II, on stage for the first time, providing the bombastic background to a then hardly known band called GENESIS. Wow, what a thrill! It made it possible to achieve an incredibly dense, fat orchestral sound that really no-one expected from a rockband. Remember, back in those days of Hammond organs, Farfisa Pianos and Hohner Clavinets the MIGHTY TRON was a totally unusual sight on the world's stages, and some of its early users were often suspected of faking their performances with a hidden tape recorder behind the curtain! Since then it has left its earliest traces in the British mid 60s' pop and psychedelic music -especially the famous "Violins", the magical "Flute" and the mighty "Brass" were quite frequently used sounds that hardly anybody presumed to stem from a keyboard instrument. Originally, the first very bulky models, the Mk I and II, had been built in 1963/64 by the brothers Leslie, Frank and Norman Bradley from Birmingham as home instruments or for canteens and clubs as an entertainer's 'super organ'. A beautiful walnut M400 and classic 'Snowwhite' M400 Compared to the gigantic musical industry of today and the vast number of present publications it was difficult in those 1960's and early 1970's to get information about that English 'miracle machine'. In 1974 I was lucky to meet a rich man's son who wanted to get rid of his folly, a white M 400 with two tape frames (this "Babytron" with its 55 kg offered the option to change tapesets with three sounds). I became one of only three proud owners of a real Tron in our city of more than half a million people! Unbelievable. Owning a Tron in the mid 70s was like driving a Rolls Royce. In 1978 I was lucky enough to add ten more brand new tape frames full of unusual sounds to my personal sound library. I had come across them in the backroom of a London music store. I always felt that these magical sounds of the past (the "Violins" even go back to the early 50s!) were unequalled by any of the modern keyboards. What creates the Tron's vivid and animated tone is a lucky combination of factors like slightly detuned instruments which were played in the manner of their time, with a pinch of tape noise, distortion and pitch inaccuracy added. An M300 and speaker cabinet I am quite aware that for many Mellotroniacs the Tron's oddities are the essential part of their beloved noise, but as an active musician I never could cope with dull or totally out of tune notes on an otherwise excellent music machine. Therefore, I started to record the best of my approximately one hundred tape frames compiling the collection digitally in the early 1980s. I really took a lot of effort to copy them faithfully from the best Mello-/Novatrons I could lay my hands upon (Mk II, M 300, M 400s, Mk Vs). Most of these recordings were taken directly from the instruments line outputs. Bill Wyman's Mk II and Klaus Schulze's Mk V Yet I always wondered how bands like PINK FLOYD, THE ROLLING STONES, BEGGAR'S OPERA or the early GENESIS achieved that 'hollow' ethereal sound in their 60s' recordings that was so different from the well-known Tron sound, though these bands apparently used the usual tapes. Through the Bradleys I learned that the first Mk I's and II's were not provided with a line-out, consequently the recordings had to be made by microphone, using the internal speakers. Hence I experimented with different microphone positions at the sides of a 1965 Mk II until I finally found the point where (beside its own 'living noises') the Mellotron revealed its full vintage magic. I am very proud to offer these microphoned sounds to all friends of that fantastic psychedelic era with its spacey tunes for the first time and I would really appreciate it if you used the whole collection to create fantastic new music. Enjoy it. Keep on Troning! Klaus Hoffmann-Hoock (MIND OVER MATTER / www.mindovermatter-music.de)
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Stock#: 29385 Publisher: GForce Code: Format/Platform: VST Subject: Synths List: 99.00 Sale: $69.95
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