M-Audio 640-118 - Manuals

3 1 2 M-Tron – a brief history The M-Tron is a virtual emulation of one of the most inspirational and unique instruments ever produced, the Mellotron ® . This instrument was used on countless records in the heady days of the 1960’s and 1970’s from Yes’ ‘Heart Of The Sunrise’ to Led Zepplin’s ‘Stairw...

4 4 3 Birotron Conceived by Dave Biro with the help of keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman, the Birotron attempted to overcome the problems of the eight-second note duration by implementing the use of eight-track cartridges instead of the various tape widths used in both Chamberlin’s and Mellotron’s. While...

5 6 5 Installing the M-Tron & Tape Banks Because every note of each Mellotron ® sound was sampled separately, the average size of an M-Tron Tape Bank is approximately 21MB. There are over 100 Tape Banks featured in this collection resulting in close to 2.5GB of data. The installation takes place...