The one I really like is Redtron.DrewDale wrote:Not bad, but I think the Elektostudio mellotron emu is far betterChris-S wrote:Yesterday I've had some fun playing around with this old mellotron Vsti:
http://www.kvraudio.com/product/tapeworm_by_tweakbench
http://www.elektrostudio.ovh.org/index.php?lang=en
The three versions of Redtron use all the same samples... but have different features. So... I have the three installed.
I strongly recommend you to install the three editions of Redtron. Each one has its special features. And you must put all the three DLL in the same directory! So they will all three use the same sample files... which are (and must stay!) in the subdirectory of Redtron SE (this one is therefore required because only this one has the sample files).
And here you have in brief the story of these samples used by Redtron... with in bonus two other sets of tapes coming from the same Mellotron. The tapes in addition are the "Gc3 Brass" tapes and the "Gong" tapes but they are provided in WAV, not in SF2. But Artifake Labs has had the kindness to convert them, so you can download them here and you unzip them in the same subdirectory where are the first sf2 files. For the record... it's good to know that these samples have been made years ago by a guy called Taijiguy and these samples are especially famous because they are precisely those which are the most used in Kontakt!
And if you use a free sampler/rompler like TX16Wx (for example), you can use all these samples in your own sampler/rompler! Because in this second website the samples are provided in the native WAV format. Redtron reads these samples only in the sf2 format.
Redtron is really a must have! Everybody knows the famous Mellotron samples used in Kontakt... those used in Redtron are the same! They come from these same sets made by Taijiguy in wav in 2003, 2008 and 2010.
Elektrostudio has made a very good instrument with his Tapeotronic, yes. The sounds are excellent (all his plugins are very good). The only problem I find with it is... it has a very small choice of sounds. It's an instrument he had made only for him at the beginning but he found nice to distribute it like all his other plugins. What I'd really like him is to improve Tapeotronic one future day... This instrument merits much more than a single anecdotal rank.
But really... everyone should know Redtron. It makes you access directly to the legendary samples made by Taijiguy!