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Bill Wyman’s Mk II

Klaus Schulz’s Mk V, 

M400 – known as ‘Snowwhite’

M400 – Walnut

An M300 with speaker cabinet

Содержание M-Tron

Страница 1: ... 3 Chamberlin 3 Birotron 4 Roland VP330 Plus 4 Sound Production 4 Without Whom Dept 4 Installing the M Tron Tape Banks 5 Registration 5 M Tron Controls 6 Function Knob 6 Pitch Knob 6 Tone Knob 6 Volume Knob 6 MIDI Controller List 6 The Tape Banks 7 Contact 15 ...

Страница 2: ...n until 1977 This comprised a single 35 note keyboard stretching from G to F plus Volume Tone and Pitch controls It also came with three sounds and cost 795 00 in 1976 It enjoyed a relatively long and prosperous life and was used by almost every significant band during that period Rick Wakeman is quoted as saying The sounds of the instrument were beautiful and unlike anything else available but the...

Страница 3: ...es required a degree of digital cleaning up due to their age and storage conditions we have deliberately left in many imperfections for fear of ironing out too much of the inherent character Accordingly you may find that in isolation the odd note may sound a bit wobbly and there may be clicks hum and even the odd tape drop out This is entirely deliberate and when played within the context of a trac...

Страница 4: ...e Tape Banks takes a few minutes so please be patient The PC installer installs the M Tron and all the additional Tape Banks via four CDs During installation you will be asked to insert each disc in turn until installation is complete Mac Insert the M Tron Master CD Disc 1 into your CD ROM drive Double click on the GForce M Tron Disc 1 icon to open the disc Double click on the MTron CD1 dmg file an...

Страница 5: ...ight the required sound There will be a slight delay while the Tape Bank is loaded into RAM Pitch Knob This allows you to change the pitch by or 15 from the center position Turning the Pitch Knob clockwise increases the pitch Tone Knob The Tone Knob progressively filters out high frequencies The knob defaults to an almost hard right position and moving it anti clockwise will filter the high frequenc...

Страница 6: ...mented 8 Choir The rare and powerful double Genesis 8 Choir from 1980 Bass Accordion Wonderful deep bass accordion tones recorded directly from a Mk II Tron Note This Tape Bank only has 17 notes Bassoon One of the very rare and hardly used Mellotron sounds Very nice for early King Crimson like songs Bassoon Flute This beautiful soft and moody sound perfectly fits to any kind of medieval song Let th...

Страница 7: ...immortal words Through the round window Note There are only 25 notes in this Tape Bank Chamberlin Voice An ethereal solo female voice Note There are only 30 Notes in this Tape Bank Choir 1 Male choir taken from an M400 belonging to a very famous band Choir 2 M400 female choir Choir 3 M400 boys choir Choir Chords Recorded at St Peter s Church Caversham these offer some interesting major and minor c...

Страница 8: ... sounds the original version had spread over the whole keyboard this fat tool is a real progrock monster that Arthur Brown s Kingdom Come appreciated a lot M300 Solo Violins This is a must have sound A good alternative string recording for the M300 M300 Strings 1 This unusual combination taken from the rare M300 only about 60 were ever made belongs to the cream of string highlights M300 Strings 2 ...

Страница 9: ...e the vicar s piano but Pink Floyd liked it on their 1968 It Would Be So Nice single MkII Tenor Sax Another microphoned recording this time of a very rarely heard saxophone played in the style of its time MkII Trombone Mike Pinder s sweet brass of the Moody Blues 60 s and 70 s recordings Also a microphoned recording MkII Violins A microphoned recording from an original MkII This famous 3 Violins s...

Страница 10: ...middle C contains the end motif Rhythm 4 A selection of Bossa Nova rhythms and motifs recorded from a Mk II Note There are only 17 notes in this Tape Bank The final B contains the end motif Rhythm 5 A selection of Slow Foxtrot rhythms and motifs recorded from a Mk II Note There are only 17 notes in this Tape Bank The first G above contains the end motif Rhythm 6 A selection of Dixieland rhythms and ...

Страница 11: ...ue to the M Tron Strings 1 Recorded from a Mk II tron and consisting of three Violins Viola and Cello Strings 2 More of a Strings and Brass hybrid sound Strings 3 Recorded from a Mk II tron although the aficionado s say this originally comes from an M300 Strings Choir No surprises here in that this sound is a layered strings and choir sound recorded directly from an M400 String Section Two string s...

Страница 12: ...nd female tone taken from the VP330 Plus and much loved by early synth pioneers VP Ensemble A mixed choir sound combined with the instantly recognizable sound of the Roland chorus VP Males A male only tone similar to the VP choir again much loved by early synth pioneers VP Rhythm 1 An interesting vocoder rhythm recorded at 120 BPM VP Rhythm 2 Another interesting vocoder rhythm recorded at 120 BPM ...

Страница 13: ...14 Bill Wyman s Mk II Klaus Schulz s Mk V M400 known as Snowwhite M400 Walnut An M300 with speaker cabinet ...

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