M-Tron MkII was designed with some neat features only available under the hood which you can modify to suit your personal taste. These are all saveable on a per patch basis. There are also several Presets available for quick saving and recall of your favourite set-ups.
Resets every value of the following parameters to their default positions for either the Left Manual, Right Manual or the whole instrument. All Settings, Tape Start, Detune, Pan, Click Level.
As you would expect this allows you to load any of the previously save (and supplied) Key Edit Presets into either the entire instrument, or the Left or Right manuals.
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Key Edit Presets are found in the following location:
Mac: User/LibraryApplication Support/M-Tron MkII/Key Edits
PC: Documents/GForce/M-Tron MkII/Key Edits
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You can save any changes you make to the Tape Start, Detune, Tape Pan and Key Click knobs as a Key Edit Preset. Once saved you can then import them into either the entire instrument, or the Left or Right manuals.
Using these knobs it’s possible to alter the start positions of each note. For example you may want to advance the start point of notes within a Flute tape-bank to remove the initial blow transient. As with all the other under the hood controls each note is individually adjustable.
We believe it was Robert Fripp that said. “the sound of an in-tune Mellotron isn’t.” And while we spent a long time working from the Master Tapes to give you what we feel a Mellotron MkII should have sounded like if technology allowed back in 1962, we know there are time when you’re going to want to alter the tuning of individual notes. This is where to do it.
When the Pan Switches are activated on the main front-panel, you can change the the pan positions of each note via these knobs This is great for creating a patch where the Piano scans from left to right as you move up the key range.
On the original instrument it took a two seconds for a tape to rewind from its eight-second end point after a note-off. If you played the note before that two-second rewind time, the note would replay from the position of the tape during that rewind. We’ve emulated this via the Tape Rewind Button, together with a degree of note-on click which was also part of the original instrument’s character.
Via these knobs, you can set the level of key click for each note, only when the Tape Rewind Button is active.