Alex Ball Artist Expansion (Bundle Purchase)

Alex Ball Artist Expansion pack for M-Tron Pro

We invited British composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Alex Ball to craft a modern yet authentic pack. The challenge was to create new yet authentic sounds for the M-Tron Pro. The project started with Alex selecting and recording a series of instruments, plus two rhythm and accompaniment banks, spanning the 35-note key range of the original M400 & MkII Mellotron®. Once recorded, the results of those sessions were taken to Streetly Electronics and ‘Tronized’ via their Skeletron – a bare-bones Mellotron M400.

The Alex Ball Artist Expansion pack for M-Tron Pro contains 27 tape banks and comes with over 150 presets.

The making of authentic 'Tron sounds

Once recorded, the results of those sessions were taken to Streetly Electronics and ‘Tronized’ via their Skeletron – a bare-bones Mellotron M400. This involved recording everything to tape and then re- recording the output via both the Skeletron pre-amp, plus, in the case of the rhythms and accompaniments, threading the tapes onto an original MkII Mellotron and recording the on-board speaker output. Finally, the ‘Tronized’ recordings were sent back to Alex Ball for chopping and shoe-horning into the M-Tron Pro.

While time-consuming and very labour intensive, we think this process was vital when it comes to staying true to the Mellotron’s ethos and origins. Without Alex’s exemplary musicianship and devotion to detail, and without Tronizing, this pack could be viewed as a straightforward sample pack for M-Tron Pro. However, with the convergence of skills and technologies from both Alex and Streetly Electronics, we think this set of tape banks affords you something unique, special and highly inspirational.

Tour

A tour of the instruments with Alex Ball

Artist's Opinion

The M-Tron Pro is the first Virtual Instrument we have ever used on a Morcheeba record and once we started we couldn’t stop, this plug sounds fantastic!
It blended brilliantly alongside our vintage hardware keyboards and delivered the psychedelic, majestic madness we had been searching for. Needless to say we now utilise it on everything!

Paul Godfrey

Morcheeba

About Alex Ball

Alex Ball is a British composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist who was brought up the analogue way learning instruments, studying music and playing with other musicians.

Alex was Music Producer for M&C Saatchi for over a decade where he composed, produced, sourced and licensed music for countless advertising campaigns for brands such TFL, Coca-Cola, Havana Club Rum, Virgin Holidays and many, many more. Outside of advertising Alex has worked on the trailers for ‘Sackboy: A Big Adventure’ and ‘Watch Dogs: Legion’, composed music for the Cbeebies BAFTA nominated series ‘Tee & Mo’ and, had music used in an episode of Netflix ‘Stranger Things’ and BBC’s ‘The Apprentice’.

In 2016, on a whim, Alex started uploading videos to YouTube as an outlet for his ideas and inspiration around music production, composition and arranging. This evolved into synthesizer documentaries and film score breakdowns which have proved popular…

Audio Demos

Speaker

Also available as part of

Alex Ball – Artist Expansion is also available with new purchases of the “M-Tron Pro – Complete” bundle which includes the M-Tron Pro and all the Expansion Packs. That is a superb 11.5GB+ sound library with 480+ tape banks and 1850+ presets.

Compatibility

The Alex Ball Artist Expansion Pack is only available to registered users of M-Tron Pro.

Additionally, it is exclusively available via this website as a direct download (464 MB) via “My Instruments” when the purchase has been completed.

The Alex Ball Artist Expansion Pack is only available to registered users of M-Tron Pro.

Additionally, it is exclusively available via this website as a direct download (464 MB) via “My Instruments” when the purchase has been completed.

Key Features

  • A GForce Software and Alex Ball collaboration
  • Over 150 M-Tron Pro Patches
  • 27 carefully curated tape banks for M-Tron Pro
  • Instruments include: Double Bass, Electronic Bass, Balalaika, Banjo, Baritone Acoustic, Nylon Guitar, Tremolo Guitar, Ukulele, Baritone Electric, Twang Guitar, Piano, Clavinet, System 100M, Violins Pizz, Violas Pizz, Violins Bow, Voice Spectra.
  • 35 notes per tape bank
  • Exclusively available via download – 464MB

Legal Notice
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