M-Tron - M400 Pipe Organ

[MultiRatrat]

not a real organ:(

[vvvlladdd]

i love the sound. It's epic!

[MoreOfMyselfToKill]

love the Bach

[maxbackstrom]

I liike it!

[Mikemaniax]

This has to be the most realistic mellotron sound ever. I mean, besides the hard attack and the slightly wavering intonation at various notes, it sounds almost like you really are playing a real pipe organ.

[CoalhouseCat]

Ah, if only you were correct! I suffered through M400 horrific idiosyncrasies in the trenches. Low tech is being kind but at the time, little was as cool and the public was wild about them. To this day as well.. What we have here is some great sampling technology in a Mellotron suit. I shudder to think what a pipe organ on the tape rack of the 70's would have sounded like. I have an Orchestron with a pipe organ disc and it is probably very close. Great video Mr. Squonk ! Like father, like son

[weaponEX]

Extraordinary - I always thought mellotrons where supposed to be kinda kinda lo-fi and deteriorated, but this sounds like an authentic replication, it would appear I've got mellotrons all wrong!

Are you using the original Gforce software M-Tron or the more recent Pro edition?

[Squonk06]

The original version. Pro came out last autumn, and though it looks like a handsome update, I'm not exactly sure when I'll get around to getting it. If you're interested in using any of the banks from my examples, you'll be happy to know that the entire original M-Tron library is included with Pro (with the exception of I think about three obscure banks).

[CaptainSiberia]

Play Pictures at an Exhibition!

[andremoral14]

thats a midi controler or just an organ with IN and OUT midi????

[SiddhartaLysander]

Very interesting indeed

What's the inspiration from 0:20 to 40?

I wish anyone could answer...Please!

[Squonk06]

Honestly, it's difficult to say what I was thinking of at the time, though it sounds a bit like a mashup of Rick Wakeman's "Jane Seymour" and the passage in the finale movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony just before the main chrous. Weird combination, eh? Mostly, though, it was just some musing intended to illustrate how the 'Tron organ handled short, abrupt playing.

[maxbackstrom]

We are mellotronlovers indeed. I hav made so many mellotron soundfonts, that 'm lad it's over. It sure takes som time to go through one sound. And then it's time for the next, and next.

Did you use Vienna as well?

[Squonk06]

I use Vienna whenever I want to work with or edit raw samples. I've sampled different M-Tron banks and made other SoundFonts from various 'Tron samples I've found on the Internet. I've pretty much got it down to a science I do it so much.

[maxbackstrom]

It's nice to hear you play them sounds!

Have you seen my little darling - the Mini-Magitron (is it a mellotron) at youtube?

MaxB

[krakhaid]

I had the privilege of playing a full cathedral pipe organ once, and this is the closest I've ever heard a synthesizer come to replicating that fullness of sound.

[mfbfreak]

What about playing some Pink Floyd Saucerfull of Secrets (the last part 'celestial voices') with that set? That would be really cool to hear!

[newenglishsound]

Wow, this sounds really good. I'm currently working on a prog rock song, and I think it could use an organ fugue section to make it sound more epic. Let me know if you're interested!