Two Mellotron Emulations for the iPad

Genesis: "Watcher Of The Skies" by Manetron Mark II

YouTube via ManetronM400S — June 14, 2010 — Genesis: "Watcher Of The Skies" by Manetron Mark II

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Manetron in iTunes:



Mellotronics M3000 IPAD

YouTube via JCRUDESS — June 13, 2010 — "My friends at Omenie who are making Jordantron just released this GREAT app for Ipad. The real Mellotron library revealed! Sounds amazing!"

Omenie on iTunes:

Mellotronics M3000 HD Now Available

"Streetly Electronics - manufacturers of the original Mk I, Mk II and M400 mellotrons - and Omenie, Home of the ELLATRON - have joined forces to bring you the MELLOTRONICS M3000 HD.

The M3000 is an uncannily accurate, beautiful-sounding and immensely playable instrument, packed with 13 huge, authentic voices from the Mellotronics tape vault. These are the same production tapes that featured on Strawberry Fields Forever, Nights in White Satin, Watcher of the Skies, Odessey and Oracle, and hundreds more timeless classics.

The M3000 is powered by a reworked ELLATRON engine and packs a gorgeous reverb unit and 12 programmable chord pads."

On iTunes


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Sopranotron, Demo and Tutorial for iPad

Published on May 21, 2014 thesoundtestroom·273 videos

"Sopranotron from Omenie the team that brought us the excellent Mellotron M3000. This is simply superb."

iTunes: Sopranotron - Omenie Limited

"The first dedicated 'Virtual Soprano' instrument for iPad - add soaring operatic soprano tones to your recordings, or take a pitch-perfect Virtual Soprano on stage with you!

Here by popular demand is Omenie's M3000 HD 'English Soprano' library, provided as a standalone instrument. Caitlin Downie, gifted soprano and national treasure, has been painstakingly recorded and assembled into a huge vocal collection. 525 different samples, 15 different voices, with chromatic sampling over the M3000's 35-note range, and note stretching below and above the range to deliver 5 octaves in total.

3 distinct vowel vocalizations, 'soft' voices, 'forte' voices with huge projection and vibrato, staccato vowels and 3 different ensemble voices are provided. Two different playable instruments are available at the same time, one blended from a selection 3 of the 15 voices ('A/B/C'), the other a single voice ('D'). The 'D' voice may be assigned to programmable chord pads, or the two instruments may be played independently via class-compliant MIDI keyboards. 64 programmable 'Voicebanks' allow popular selections of voices to be saved and restored immediately for recording or performance.

Virtual MIDI on 2 separate channels and AudioBus support make Sopranotron a very flexible and powerful instument for adding vocal sparkle to recordings or live performances."

Jordan Rudess Releases Jordantron for iPad

Uploaded on Sep 18, 2014 Jordan Rudess

iTunes: Jordantron

"Presenting Wizdom Music's new app Jordantron. This is the first time Jordan Rudess, who is best known as the keyboardist for Dream Theater, has released a complete set of his exclusive sounds to the public. Jordantron will turn your iPad into the grandest and most epic sounding instrument ever!
Developed for Wizdom Music by Omenie, UK-based mellotron specialists"

iTunes: Jordantron

"This is the first time Jordan Rudess, best known as the keyboardist for Dream Theater, has released a complete set of his exclusive sounds to the public. Jordantron will turn your iPad into the grandest and most epic sounding instrument ever!

Developed for Wizdom Music by Omenie, UK-based mellotron specialists, Jordantron features :
• 57 sampled stereo instruments, 940MB of samples
• 4 octave samples per voice, 6 playable octaves
• Voices categorized by 'velocity sensitive', 'leads', 'orchestral / choral', 'pads' and 'strings'
• Velocity sensitivity on selected voices
• Decay tails on selected voices
• Octave shift keys to extend range of on-screen keyboard
• 'Half-speed' tape mode
• 12 programmable chord pads
• Warm, lush stereo reverb
• 32 'VOICEBANKs' holding voice, reverb and ABC blend settings for instant retrieval
• Giant 'Jordan-style' whole octave divebombs (configurable as whole tone or whole octave downshift)
• Support for multiple simultaneous instruments via MIDI
'Oscillotron' waveform display

First and foremost, this is a giant sample collection wrapped in its own playable instrument, designed for live and studio use with MIDI control. Jordantron allows its two internal Tron engines to be controlled by a pair of external class-compliant MIDI keyboards for maximum performance flexibility, one controlling the blendable 'ABCtron', the other controlling the 'Dtron' which is usually dedicated to chord pads. A flexible MIDI response allows VOICEBANKs to be retrieved using MIDI Program Change, so the iPad screen never needs to be touched during performance."

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Omenie Synth Collection : On-screen metronome

Published on Aug 24, 2015 Pi Synth

"A feature that went in today - an on-screen metronome, rendered underneath the waves display. This makes the system usable on tracks that kick off without drumming, or in fact those with only silence coming out of the sequencer. The metronome lets a player understand the tempo, where the 1-2-3 and 4 beats are, and very much increases the usability of the synth collection in a perfomance-plus-sequencer setting."

See this post for details on the Pi Synth Omenie.

Melloman for iPhone and iPad in the Works

via Omenie, makes of the Mellotronics M3000 for iPad and various Ellatron apps.

See the Melloman label below for videos of the hardware Melloman by Mystery Circuits. You might recognize the pic from this previous post. The Melloman is essentially a Sony Walkman based Mellotron. See the videos for more.


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Omenie - Streetly Electronics - Mellotronics M300 HD - Harry's Tapes

Published on Apr 8, 2014 pinstripedclips·143 videos

iTunes: 50th Anniversary Edition Mellotronics M3000 - Omenie Limited

Featured Sounds:
4 Saxes
Piano
Muted Trumpet
Cello
3 Violins

Mellotronics M3000 50th Anniversary Edition, Demo and Tutorial, iPad

Published on Nov 9, 2013 thesoundtestroom·161 videos

"To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the first Mellotron, Streetly Electronics and Omenie.com bring us this new updated version with lots of new stuff including midi and Audiobus support...for more info on everything you need to know on making music in your iOS devise goto http://discchord.com or http://forum.audiob.us/"

iTunes: 50th Anniversary Edition Mellotronics M3000 - omenie

MELLOTRONICS M3000 HD - 3 minute guide

YouTube via OmenieSoftware — June 09, 2010 — "Just like the previous 'Strawberry Fields for Ella', I set myself a challenge - can a total non-pianist have a shot at probably the most iconic Mellotron song ever (as opposed to the most iconic Mellotron intro ever!) using just one finger and the M3000's chord pads.

See what you think - the solo isn't quite right, but honestly, you have no idea how many takes I had to do to get it this close. Next time I want to make a video, I am renting me a pianist. And maybe some dancing girls too."

I'm not finding this one on iTunes. If anyone can, feel free to comment.

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Update via Omenie in the comments:
"On sale 14th June - update to fix a niggling issue is in the pipe before it goes on sale. Details at http://www.omenie.com

Thanks for blogging us!"

Omenie - Streetly Electronics - Mellotronics M3000 HD - New Tapes

Published on Apr 7, 2014 pinstripedclips·142 videos

iTunes: 50th Anniversary Edition Mellotronics M3000 - Omenie Limited

Featured Sounds:
Mike Pinder Smooth Organ
Clare Lindley Violin Collection

Ellatron via MIDI

flickr By Omenie

"Ellatron via MIDI

A small group of people will remember our first MIDI video about 10 months ago that needed a jailbroken iPhone. Well here is the real thing.

Filmed by iPod Touch, here are a few of the features of the Ella MIDI implementation - 3 voices at once (upper, lower and pads), all can be played concurrently if you have enough hands or somebody else around/on stage who can hit the pads. Programmable keyboard split for upper and lower, programmable chord pads if your keyboard supports it (and the Axiom 49 has 8 of them - mighty useful). Ella can be seen responding to controllers on the keyboard with on-screen information keeping you up to date, and controllers are used to change voices, volume, pitch, tone, reverb parameters, and level/pan for each of the upper, lower and pad instruments. Ellatron and the Lite Trons now all feature the same rich reverb unit first seen in M3000, and the MIDI Ellatron is going to hit the shops with a handful of the real Tron voices from M3000, albeit with the usual limitations - shorter loop times, major third sampling intervals etc. Mellotron purists, or indeed anyone who wants a real Tron will still want the M3000, but people who just want a handful of Tron sounds for occasionally spicing up a song will love the new Ella.

Plus the MIDI implementation is ultra-responsive, despite this being a debug build and having a dozen printfs per played note - printfs going over WiFi to the Mac, because you can't really printf with an attached dock accessory...

A bit more work to do on the user interface to de-stupid it (e.g. "What is" ... "This For?" on the left!), an upgrade to the saved/restored preferences file, and we will be ready to roll out for testing. If all goes well we should be good to go by early December."


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Dorset man in Sirius Probe probe - Robert Fripp, King Crimson Tour Rehearsals with M3000 iPad Mellotron

Published on Sep 4, 2014 DGM Live

"Robert `gives us an insider's view of the Sirius Probe and much, much more..."

via @omeniesoftware

iTunes: 50th Anniversary Edition Mellotronics M3000 - Omenie Limited

M3000 Free Edition for iPad

iTunes: M3000 Free Edition - Omenie Limited

"A fully-functional version of Mellotronics M3000 50th Anniversary Edition, an authentic recreation of Streetly Electronics' M4000 tape-replay instrument. The app includes 5 authentic tapes from Streetly Electronics' production library, all authentic mellotron voices. In-App Purchases allow the full voice set of the 50th Anniversary Edition to be downloaded, and many other voices as well.

Apart from the limited voice set included with the app, no functionality is removed in this free edition. MIDI and AudioBus is fully functional, including 'Two Trons' mode where 2 different MIDI channels can control the A/B/C and D voices."

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Omenie Synth Collection on a Raspberry Pi Model A

Published on Aug 19, 2015 Pi Synth

"7 simultaneous synths - 3 Virtual Analog (VAsynth), 2 sample replay (SRsynth) and 2 wavetable trajectory (WTsynth) - are sequenced to play back one of Ron's finest tunes. The individual instruments are walked through first by whipping through MIDI channels and bashing keys before the sequence is launched.

There is one minor bit of cheating - or is it an advanced feature? I have not written the sequencing language description of this tune yet, so I exploit the 'launch MIDI grab' feature whereby the sequencing program initializes all the instruments, sets level and pan, sets the preset for each MIDI channel, then fires previously-captured MIDI down the throat of the synthesizer service, which deals with distributing MIDI packets to the right synth.

And I should stress - the computer that is synthesizing all these instruments, and rendering the full-screen 1280x720 waveform display, AND dealing with the multiple MIDI keyboards costs $20."

Uhhhh.. spooky?!

Uhhhh.. spooky?! by miarischmann
"Work in progress.. Hope to add some more to it later.. and to make it longer.
Made it on my iPad using these apps:

Arpeggio: Nlog Pro
String bass: NlogPro
8 voice choir: Ellatron Mellotronics M3000"

via Mia on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

NLogSynth PRO - tempo rubato
Ellatron HD - omenie
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& one more by Mia
AM Pro Soloist Droned by miarischmann
"Short demo made with AM Pro Soloist VST in Garageband. Added lots of reverb.
Fuzz guitar 1 preset."

AM Pro Soloist Droned

Mellotron Classics : Space Oddity

YouTube via OmenieSoftware. Ellatron on
"During Summer 2009 the 40th anniversary edition of Space Oddity was released, along with 8 original stems to support remixing. How could we possibly avoid that remix challenge?!

So, challenge accepted - here is one of the most influential Mellotron songs of all time - Rick Wakeman, no less - with his Wakemanness artfully removed by muting the track in Logic. And the Rolf Harrisisms of the Stylophone removed as well, but that was trickier as the Stylophone and lead guitar share a track. Mellotron and Stylophone were replaced by Ellatron's 'Mellostring' and 'Stellavibe' respectively, to give authentic Mellotron string and vibrato stylophone sounds.

Ellatron sits beautifully in the mix (even though the level is artificially lifted for emphasis), and the result is totally convincing, with no post-processing at all on the Ellatron tracks. There's no question Ellatron is an excellent performance instrument, particularly the new (not quite released!) Ellatron version 1.5 with 12 chord buttons - 16 songs, each with 12 chords allows a band to apply rich Tron sounds to a whole set, without having any musical talent whatsoever - if you can read a chord book you can program a whole set into Ellatron!"

Being Boiled again - this time with added metronome

Published on Aug 25, 2015 Pi Synth

Omenie Synth Collection on Raspberry Pi Synth

"Boy oh boy you need to REALLY like the old Human League to survive a subscription to this channel ...

Here is Being boiled yet again, this time being used to demonstrate the improvements in the metronome over the last 24 hours.

First off, the blue pulse that slides along the 32 beats steps has got way smoother and is now in that 'Nails like Butter (™)' zone.

Second, the brightness of the metronome is now under the control of the sequencer. So any time you want a bright metronome, just command it to be brightened. Brightening is instant, fading is IIRd for that 'Smooother than Galaxy Caramel' effect.

And thirdly, and I think finally, the LEDs (or 'LEDs' if you insist) fade-out at a rate driven by the current BPM, in an attempt to maximize the ability to read the beat no matter how fast or slow your track is moving along.

I do have square and round LEDs available, but I much prefer the square ones, you get a giant bar of colour and the ONE just shouts at you."

Canon (prog) rock

Published on Aug 16, 2013 Pi Synth·20 videos

"A wireless MIDI test of Pachelbel's little tune through the Mellotronics M3000 running on an iPad 2. A peculiarly metronomic version of Pachelbel's little tune, but recognisable.

Captured on an Elgato Game Capture HD at 108p, downsampled to 720p, as the Elgato's native 720p capture is pretty ugly.

This is a slightly newer version of the M3000 than is in the store for review, that one plays MIDI the same as this but doesn't show which keys are being played over MIDI. So as soon as we have Apple approval for the current version I will push this as an update. Inching is set to 1 here to get a slightly more bitey attack on the sax in particular."

iTunes:
Mellotronics M3000 for iPad - omenie

Omenie Mellotronic M3000 Mellotron for iPad

via Ellatron

"And here is the wide world's first glimpse at the Mellotronics M3000 HD. Powered by Ellatron and stuffed with genuine Mellotronics, this is initially an iPad-exclusive baby brother to Streetly's amazing M4000 tape-replay instrument, with iPhone version to follow. Streetly have for the first time made their entire tape vault available under license, and the M3000 is stuffed with voices derived from the Mellotronics tape library - *EXACTLY* the same tapes that appear on all those Beatles, Genesis, King Crimson and Zombies records."

Soprano Fields Forever

Published on Aug 31, 2014 Pi Synth

iTunes: Sopranotron - Omenie Limited

"I was asked about demos for various voices today, and figured I ought to aim to get something up here that illustrates every sound in the various voice packs, all playing the same thing. 'What to play?' I asked myself. Well, since Paul McCartney did once call me on the phone, why not use his most iconic mellotron tune?

So here we are - the first in a series of a few, the Sopranotron doing some Strawberry stuff over all 15 voices. Enjoy!

And next time I will film it after dark to get the reflections minimized."