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JonHodgson · Post by **JonHodgson** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:12 pm

HunterKiller wrote:Wasn't this thing in development since like 2003 and they were gonna call it Megatron

The concept was, but not the codebase.

The guy who was developing the Megatron moved on to other things... by an odd coincidence he's now doing 3d sound with the same group of people I worked with before I worked with him.

This one is based on the VSM codebase.

I prefer the name Megatron though... M-Tron pro just doesn't have the same ring to it!

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:19 pm

Name's taken, though not by anything music-related. As Sabrina Skunk (a big fan of folding robots) could tell you, Megatron is a Transformer.

beej · Post by **beej** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:10 pm

JonHodgson wrote:I prefer the name Megatron though... M-Tron pro just doesn't have the same ring to it!

They shoulda called it the pro-tron, or "Pron", to better team up with "ARSE" of VSM... Much better...

(or "pr0n")

JonHodgson · Post by **JonHodgson** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:33 pm

Meffy wrote:Name's taken, though not by anything music-related. As Sabrina Skunk (a big fan of folding robots) could tell you, Megatron is a Transformer.

I thought it might be...

and with the Avid lawyers shitting their pants every time they do anything that might upset anyone (like the VSM "bow job" patch) there was no way they'd get that past.

parma · Post by **parma** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:10 pm

hope we won't have to wait as long as we did for VSM

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:18 pm

Its about time DAVE!!!

taijiguy · Post by **taijiguy** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:27 pm

No mention in the video if the Mellotron samples are the originals or if they've been resampled. Also no examples of pure Mellotron sounds. The addition of Optigan and Birotron samples is cool though.

thelizard · Post by **thelizard** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:29 pm

holy crap. I've been tempted to buy the original m-tron for like 2 years now, but have managed to hold off.

this thing is ridiculous. that optigan arp just kind of made my brain shut up for like a minute. I laughed when he said "you can expect to hear this on an album released in february".

I hope this comes with all of the tape banks that the updated m-tron came with.

gnu23 · Post by **gnu23** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:25 pm

thelizard wrote:holy crap. I've been tempted to buy the original m-tron for like 2 years now, but have managed to hold off.

this thing is ridiculous. that optigan arp just kind of made my brain shut up for like a minute. I laughed when he said "you can expect to hear this on an album released in february".

I hope this comes with all of the tape banks that the updated m-tron came with.

Same here. VSM was a Christmas present, but I'd been holding off on M-Tron. Had a feeling...

Stupid American Pig · Post by **Stupid American Pig** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:29 am

yeah buying this the day its released... may even pre-order... that will be my 3rd license to "mtron".

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:54 pm

he was recording the octagon 3/4 years ago i think...that did take a long time to get it out.....

cant wait till the SOB is out...in 2010

xparis001 · Post by **xparis001** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:03 pm

would like a word...

aquasloth · Post by **aquasloth** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:34 am

I have to admit, I was a little pissed at the delayed release of VSM (remember it was supposed to come out in March 2007?!), but according to Dave Spiers in the new vid, it sounds like they spent so long on VSM in order to make the sample engine really "robust" and versatile, and with that new programming in place they could do something like M-Tron Pro with its reverse function, ensemble mode, effects, etc.

I say, as long as M-Tron Pro comes out in a reasonable amount of time, it will make the wait for VSM that much more worth it (and I still haven't gotten a chance to try out VSM!). I think Gforce has learned their lesson from VSM's delayed release and are dead set on this product coming out in reasonable time.

It would definitely be cool if there was a discounted upgrade price for existing M-Tron users, but at this point I'm willing to plunk down the change for M-Tron Pro. Besides, Gforce has reasonable prices on their products...$99 for M-Tron, $129 for VSM -- pretty reasonable to me considering I use M-Tron on EVERYTHING.

pough · Post by **pough** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:10 am

Cooool. I'm a big fan of the original M-Tron. Looks like fun!

gold · Post by **gold** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:56 am

Klemperer wrote:...just watched the video - and at the end Dave Spiers announcing he's going to the pub . I look forward to this!

Agreed, interesting prospect indeed

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