http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXJJ2Ek4bmQ The Vako Orchestron is an old-school style optical competitor to the Mellotron. The Orchestron, which was adapted from the Mattel Optigan, was introduced in 1975 by Dave Van Koevering. It was intended to be a competitor to the Mellotron, but it never really took off. More information about the Orchestron and related instruments is… Read More Vako Orchestron Optical Disc Sampler
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IK Multimedia and Sonic Reality have announced their latest collaborative effort, Sonik Instruments, a series of virtual instrument plug-ins dedicated to focused collections of rare and top-of-the-line instruments and sounds. The first announced of this series are SampleMoog, SampleTron, and Studiophonik. Each of these Sonik Instruments offers a full synth-sampler engine powered by SampleTank with… Read More SampleMoog, SampleTron, and Studiophonik
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… Read More GForce M-Tron Gets Universal Binary Update
Here’s an old video demonstration of classic Mellotron sampling technology: The Mellotron is an electromechanical polyphonic keyboard musical instrument originally developed and built in England in the early 1960s. Mellotrons used a series of tape playback heads triggered by a standard organ-style keyboard to create a crude but pioneering sample playback device.
It was a sad sight to see – this Mellotron got damaged in shipping to the NAMM show. Note the large crack along the left-hand side. Fortunately, there are still a few Mellotron specialists still in the world.
Grandious, over-the-top, out-of-date, overblown and synfully fun, Wobbler’s Hinterland is a massive slice of prog-rock that will come as a godsend to fans of 70’s bands like Yes, ELP and Gentle Giant. Wobbler is a Norwegian group that plays prog music in the traditional style, with no real attempt to update it for the new… Read More Wobbler – Hinterland
Thirty years ago, before most of the genres of popular electronic music had evolved, there were only a few musicians that incorporated electronic instruments into their music. One of those early pioneers was Rick Wakeman. Wakeman pioneered the use of synthesizers in the world of progressive art-rock. The Six Wives of Henry VIII is one… Read More Rick Wakeman – The 6 Wives of King Henry VIII
White Willow is doing its best to keep the progressive rock torch burning with its latest release, Signal to Noise. On this album, White Willow moves from a more traditional prog-rock sound to a more modern sound, with a bit of a goth metal edge. The group, made up of, Trude Eidtang (vocals), Lars Fredrik… Read More White Willow – Signal to Noise
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… Read More GMedia Intros GForce Future Retro Pack
