Wednesday 21 August 2013

We are still stuck in review ...

... sorry for the delay folks. A dumb AudioBus problem - our fault, hands up, sorry - followed by the late discovery of a critical bug has pushed us back to the start of the review process, so it may be another 4 or 5 days yet.

In the meantime, here's what you'll get once we are done - it's GREAT, so please just be patient for a few more days. It will get there soon!


Saturday 10 August 2013

Mellotronics M3000 for iPad : 50th Anniversary Edition will be in the App Store soon!





In celebration of this year's 50th anniversary of the first shipment of a Mellotron from Streetly Electronics' factory in the Midlands, UK, we are proud to announce the imminent availability of the 50th Anniversary Edition of Mellotronics M3000, an all-digital iPad-exclusive version of the legendary M400 tape replay instrument, with some amazing additional features. 


Features : 

  • 16 voices in total, 35 chromatic 8 second tapes per voice, almost 200MBytes of samples
  • All samples are original MKI, MKII and M400 voices from the production tape library of Streetly Electronics
  • 3 new unlooped voices in this refresh - MKII Vibes, Rhodes and Piano 
  • 3 looping modes - full tape duration unlooped (maximum authenticity), 5s loops (maximum playability) and 3s loops (very high fidelity, minimum memory footprint for memory-tight AudioBus situations)
  • Looped modes support 4 simultaneous voices - ABC continuous blend plus D voice on chord pads
  • Variable 'Tape inching' for authentic factory-style calibration of note attack 
  • 32 voicebanks each with 12 programmable chord pads
  • AudioBus support
  • Core MIDI support over class-compliant USB keyboards
  • MIDI responds on all channels to the following inputs : keys (5 octave response to 3 octaves of samples), pitch wheel, mod wheel, master volume, program change. 
  • The M3000 Tone control can be mapped to any free MIDI CC. 
  • MIDI notes 1-12 are mapped to chord pads
  • New synthesis engine with 44.1kHz playback supports mixing of looped and unlooped sounds - e.g infinite violins plus decaying piano 
  • Built-in warm, luscious stereoizing reverb engine
  • Tone control matched as closely as possible to Streetly Electronics' M4000 analog tone
  • All-new retina graphics, makes use of every pixel of iPad retina display
  • 100% code rewrite from version 1
  • All-new groovedacious 'Oscillotron' waveform display, in soothing chill-out colour palette

Full voice list :

  • Church Organ
  • Boys Choir
  • Female Choir
  • Eight Choir
  • String Section
  • MKII Violins 
  • Cello
  • MKII Flute
  • MKII Clarinet
  • Oboe
  • Tenor Sax
  • MKII Brass
  • Trombone
  • Piano
  • Rhodes
  • MKII Vibes


The best feature of all - this is a 100% free upgrade for existing owners, including the 3 new voices. 

No nags, no freemium, just refresh and it's yours. 

And unlike many music apps on the iPad, there is no pressure to upgrade your device - the app is fully backwards-compatible with iPad 1 via iOS 5.1 support, and runs just as great on iPad 1 as it does on the latest hardware*.


*iOS 6 and iPad 2 or better are required for AudioBus support.