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Mellotron
I have the M3000 Free, which is pretty good. Are the IAPs any good? How about other Mell apps?
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Manetron 2 is nice. I can play some semblance of the intro to Strawberry Fields Forever and a bit of Genesis Watcher Of the Skies and time travel back to the 60s and 70s ..It even has the option of the mechanical noise of the originals for the purists..
The M3000 is the most authentic, albeit with a wonky interface. The flute is amazing. Try it through a Leslie rotary simulator and/or vintage phaser pedal, Crystalline gives it a new lease of life as well.
The earlier M3000 IAP's were mostly older samples, some from the previous Chanberlin instrument but they've been adding ever since. Quite a pricey upgrade on a maybe though!
Keep us updated if you go for it.
Synthmaster has some very usable emulations in the art rock basics pack IAP, (Court of the king's a bit of a giveaway!)
Here is a comparison I made about a year ago, the first sample is Super Manetron and the second is M3000. Then each sample is played again with iGrand playing the same notes so you can compare the tuning (Super Manetron is slightly out of tune):
I like both apps, M3000 has a much bigger sound library, but Super Manetron has a softer sound that I like.
This is Thumbjam:
And this is Sampletank:
The Mello BeatHawk sample pack is also good and I can use it as an IAA instrument. Can't do that with the M3000 unfortunately.
Thanks.
The Manetron looks like it might be a good pick price-wise. I like the softer sound too.
Beware that the Manetron app presently only supports core midi, not virtual midi. Mine was quickly deleted after purchase.
We just used manetron last week on a recording and I still love out after having it for a long time. It helped that the person playing it was excellent! It is our of tune slightly, which gives it a charm and made it perfect in this song. I have m3000 free as well, and almost bought the full version when we thought manetron was making a background noise, but it turned out to be something else in the signal chain so manetron wound up working for us.
Ah, that could be a deal breaker for me. Thanks for the tip.
I read/saw a picture somewhere that showed King Crimson live using an iPad/Thumbjam for their mellotron sound. That's a pretty cool endorsement there considering all of the options they must have.
Doug from @thesoundtestroom reviewed several
@Coloobar While the Manetron2 app doesn't have virtual midi in ports, it does respond to midi sent out via the virtual ports of other midi apps such as Chordion, SP Electro, Arpeggionome Pro, etc.
If there are apps that you want to use it with that need to be sent to a virtual midi port like Lemur for example, you can use an app like Midiflow. Send the virtual midi from Lemur to Midiflow and Midiflow then broadcasts it using a virtual midi port which the Manetron app then responds to.
I might just add the 50th Anniversary set to the M3000. That might be enough for me. Midi works perfectly in MTS with this app...
Super Manetron updated with key pitch correction.
About time. The slightly off pitch (some notes a bit sharp, some a bit flat) sound of a Mellotron adds character, but having every note flat on some sounds kept this app from being a winner. I'll redownload it and check it out.
As far as I can tell this app is still out of tune. The whole app is sharp enough to sound really bad so I'll probably delete it (again). The annoying thing is you can change the pitch with the knob but the knob is "spring loaded' and when you release it bounces back to being sharp again. If the pitch knob would stay where you leave it, this app would be very usable as it does sound good.
It's a shame really but oh well.
Pity. Opportunity missed for a ha'porth of tar.
Can't play it via midiflow's virtual output anymore (?)
Shows my hearing, I preferred the sound prior to the update.....wonder if all the presets I've made recently sound off key as well? I wondered why I like WorldScales so much lol
Also not launchable in AB, zzz...