M-Tron
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Sonic State takes a look at the GForce Software M-Tron; it ads the newly developed synth engine from their Virtual String Machine to add deep filter and effects
M-Tron First Look
SonicState takes a look at GForce M-Tron Pro, which is expected to be released soon. Price $199 / €139 Euros/ £109 UKP.
Features:
- 200+ total tape banks (sample sets), including:
- 45 brand-new tape banks not found in the original M-Tron
- 19 tape banks from the original M-Tron virtual instrument, remastered at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios
- Over 40 looped tape banks
- Over 3.5GB of samples total
- 700+ patches including many created by world-class recording artists and programmers
- Up to 35 notes, each individually sampled
- Dual layer and split keyboard operation
- Programmable MIDI CC response via MIDI Learn
- 29 parameters per layer including synth parameters: Vintage-style ensemble and delay effects
- Low-pass, band-pass and high-pass resonant filter section
- Tape reverse
- Tape half speed
Formats
Standalone, VST 2.4 (Mac/PC including VSTi), RTAS® (Mac/PC), MAS (Mac) and Audio Units (Mac).
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Filed under: Samples, Loops, Software Effects & Audio Processors, Software Synthesizers & Samplers
GForce has announced that M-Tron, the first of the company’s Universal Binary instruments, the M-Tron, is ready for download.
This virtual keyboard is modelled on the famous tape-based instrument used on classic tracks like the Beatles’ Strawberry Fields Forever and used by such keyboard luminaries as Rick Wakeman and Tony Banks. More recently bands such as Oasis, Radiohead and Kasabian have used the sound to great effect.
The update is free to users who purchased and registered their instrument after the 1st October 2006. For these users the instrument has automatically been allocated to their accounts at the GForce website.
If you purchased your M-Tron before 1st October 2006, you will need to update to the Universal M-Tron via the shop at a very reasonable price of £13.99 (plus VAT), €19.99 (plus VAT) or $26.00.
GForce are promising that Universal Binary versions of their remaining instruments will now be released in a matter of weeks.
GMEDIA has announced the the GForce Future Retro Pack collection of GForce virtual instruments. GMedia is calling this a “limited-edition collection” that is only available for a short time.
The GForce Future Retro Pack combines all of GMEDIA’s emulations of vintage keyboards in one affordable package. These software instruments – Minimonsta:Melohman, The Oddity, impOSCar and M-Tron – bring back the sounds that defined an era–the Minimoog, ARP Odyssey, Oxford OSCAR and Mellotron, respectively.
These emulations have the advantage of modern features like memory, additional modulation and new performance modes the original designers never dreamed of. They can be used alone or with most popular host software. Compatibility includes VST 2.0 (Mac/PC including VSTi), RTAS (Mac/PC) and Audio Units (Mac).
