Gforce Software M-Tron Pro

[citizenzero]

Hi,

Thanks Dave for replying to my post. Would you know how I would go about attempting to loop the tape banks in the original MTron?

I'm assuming the following things:

1) The MTron application doesn't care and will play back an edited tape bank

2) The tape banks are editable and software is available that can open the tape bank file.

Unfortunately I'm still rather new to this stuff....

Also, in your personal opinion, is the MTron Pro worth the upgrade?

[emdot_ambient]

Audiomidi are a bunch of pricks.

Contrary to your experience, I've delt with them for 4 years without any issues at all. They did send an upgrade version of Komplete to me once, but I called them and got the correct version mailed to me before I'd even packaged up the incorrect one. They've treated me nothing but fairly and with great customer service.

[debra1rlo]

Audiomidi are a bunch of pricks.

Contrary to your experience, I've delt with them for 4 years without any issues at all. They did send an upgrade version of Komplete to me once, but I called them and got the correct version mailed to me before I'd even packaged up the incorrect one. They've treated me nothing but fairly and with great customer service.

+1 to that.

They gave me a refund on software that I had unwrapped and installed on my computer, then to reward my loyalty they gave me an extra discount on top of their sale price when I bought Guitar Rig a few months later. And i didn't have to remind them about the discount, they did it automatically.

[dbag]

does m-tron pro include all of the original tapes from the original m-tron plus the 3 additional tape banks? thanks, can't wait for this.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

does m-tron pro include all of the original tapes from the original m-tron plus the 3 additional tape banks? thanks, can't wait for this.

Yep. There were more details earlier in the thread. Apparently some of the tapes have been remastered at Abbey Road.

[dbag]

awesome can't wait. as long as i'm on the subject, what's the story with the rhythm patches in the original m-tron they sound so absolutely amazing. who programmed/produced them and what is their origins? sorry to go off topic but i always wanted to know this.

[JonHodgson]

Hi,

Thanks Dave for replying to my post. Would you know how I would go about attempting to loop the tape banks in the original MTron?

You can't, the original MTron doesn't support looping, rather like an original Mellotron.

For looping you'll need to use the MTron Pro, and the loops are already set (a long and difficult job which drove Dave Spiers to near insanity).

[JonHodgson]

awesome can't wait. as long as i'm on the subject, what's the story with the rhythm patches in the original m-tron they sound so absolutely amazing. who programmed/produced them and what is their origins? sorry to go off topic but i always wanted to know this.

They weren't programmed. Those are real musicians in a studio playing a rhythm. Some real enthusiast or maybe Streetly might have the history of which banks were recorded where and by whom, but it's probably largely lost in the mists of time.

[susiwong]

Any details on how the upgrade will work ?
I can't recall having a serial number ( I own the version with the cubic flightcase style box ).
Cheers,
susiwong

[JonHodgson]

Any details on how the upgrade will work ?
I can't recall having a serial number ( I own the version with the cubic flightcase style box ).
Cheers,
susiwong

Contact Gforce directly on that one.

[susiwong]

Any details on how the upgrade will work ?
I can't recall having a serial number ( I own the version with the cubic flightcase style box ).
Cheers,
susiwong

Contact Gforce directly on that one.

Thanks, Jon !
susiwong

[Dave Blakely]

Hi,

Thanks Dave for replying to my post. Would you know how I would go about attempting to loop the tape banks in the original MTron?

I'm assuming the following things:

1) The MTron application doesn't care and will play back an edited tape bank

2) The tape banks are editable and software is available that can open the tape bank file.

Unfortunately I'm still rather new to this stuff....

Also, in your personal opinion, is the MTron Pro worth the upgrade?

What Jon said

Also, in your personal opinion, is the MTron Pro worth the upgrade?

Most definately, its for all intents and purposes a new instrument with some backward compatible M-tron stuff thrown in for free, thats the way i approached it when patching for it.

[taijiguy]

awesome can't wait. as long as i'm on the subject, what's the story with the rhythm patches in the original m-tron they sound so absolutely amazing. who programmed/produced them and what is their origins? sorry to go off topic but i always wanted to know this.

The rhythm & fills are from the left-hand keyboard on the MkI/MkII models. The sound effects are from the BBC SFX model.

I vaguely remember reading about the actual recordings in "Mellotron: The Machine and the Musicians That Revolutionised Rock" by Nick Awde; highly recommended along with "The Mellotron Book" by Frank Samagaio, which is more technically oriented.

[dbag]

very cool, mellotron makes my heart warm just to confirm, it sounds like the pro just has "some" old stuff from the original m-tron. my question is does it have "all" of the original m-tron stuff so it's a complete replacement? I would assume it is but just checking, thanks.

[JonHodgson]

very cool, mellotron makes my heart warm just to confirm, it sounds like the pro just has "some" old stuff from the original m-tron. my question is does it have "all" of the original m-tron stuff so it's a complete replacement? I would assume it is but just checking, thanks.

It doesn't have the coffee stains.