Look back to the prime of classic rock and one instrument stands over the rest, a 350lb behemoth that would alter the way we think approximately making music until the end of time. At the heart of this beast was a cluster of tape machines, one per note on the connected console, each playing an extraordinarily recorded sound. With only 8 seconds of tape per key and an awkward frame, this machine had its impediments but was in any case amazing for its time, bragging a multitimbral and genuinely polyphonic ‘engine’. Right away made celebrated by the Beatles hit ‘Strawberry Fields Forever and utilized by incalculable others counting The Moody Blues, Rolling Stones, and prog rock legends Yes, this was the ‘must-have’ sound of the ’60s.
Whereas its utilisation fell out of the mould, its suggestions have ended up principal to advanced music generation. With Mello, UVI pointed to convey a total and true recreation of this productive instrument. Unique tapes were multi-sampled on 3 diverse machines in arrange to allow you the finest representation of each of the 28 accessible sounds. To capture the live encounter the key clamour and internal mechanical sounds were stereo recorded, counting tape clamour and key-off sounds, and are all mixable to taste.
Even more versatile they included a couple of tricks of their own, counting an analogue-modelled tape delay, reverb, a custom harmony mode to grant you stereo sound without undesirable transposition or chorusing, a switchable multimode channel, a 3-band EQ and more. Mello conveys a warm and buttery tone indistinguishable from the original hardware unit and is, a tribute to the quintessential studio instrument of the ’60s.
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