The SampleTron virtual instrument software crossgrade from IK Multimedia and Sonic Reality saves anyone who owns a registered IK Multimedia product $40. SampleTron combines the authentic recreation of "Tron" sounds such as Mellotrons Chamberlins and Optigans with the powerful SampleTank engine to take those nostalgic sounds into the new millennium. Works as a plug-in or as a standalone application. SampleTron allows you to manipulate process and stretch such gritty emotional and quirky lo-fi sounds.

This IK virtual instrument was made for many styles including hip-hop electronic and classic rock. SampleTron offers some of the most unique musically useful tones you can imagine. The sounds in this package are diverse powerful and inspiring allowing you to create everything from the nostalgic sounds used by The Beatles Moody Blues Genesis Yes and other high-profile bands of the 60's and 70's to the modern production of artists like Kanye West Smashing Pumpkins and Beck. With SampleTron you can even create new sonic creations never heard before.

The "Tron" sound The unique easily recognizable and instantly classic sound of the "Tron" instruments started with the Chamberlin keyboards in the 1950's and peaked with the Mellotron 400 in the 1970's. This precursor to today's samplers uses tapes to play back prerecorded sounds at the touch of the keys. They are large and easily broken but have such a unique sound it's difficult not to love the nostalgic tone and instant 'vintage' gratification that comes from hearing one. Whether you know it or not you've heard the sound of a Mellotron or one of its siblings. Just about every famous artist or band has used one in a song at one point or another. Possibly the most famous example of the "tron" sound can be heard in the opening bars of "Strawberry Fields Forever". This is the classic "Tron" strings that is still widely used by artists today. Mellotrons have been used in countless songs and just about all genres from '60s and '70s rock to the hip-hop of today. It's an instrument that works with just about everything.

One of the amazing things about the "Tron" instruments is that although relatively few have been made they still bear a large relevance in today's music. In fact they are in such high demand that the makers of the original Mellotrons Streetly Music began making them again in 2007 (although with some upgrades to 'modernize' them). Unfortunately for most of us these hand-made keyboards are out of all but the most die-hard enthusiast's price-range. However if you want that sound now here's a much more affordable way to get it.

IK Multimedia SampleTron - Crossgrade Specifications:

• System requirements
• Power PC-based Macintosh:
• Minimal: 866MHz G4 processor 512MB of RAM Mac OS X 10.4 or later
• Suggested: dual 1.25GHz G4 or G5 processor 1GB of RAM Mac OS X 10.4 or later
• Supported Plug-in formats: AU VST RTAS
  
  Intel-based Macintosh:
• Minimal: 1.5GHz Intel Core Solo processor 512MB of RAM Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later
• Suggested: 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo processor 1GB of RAM Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later
• Supported Plug-in formats: AU VST RTAS
  
  Windows:
• Minimal: Pentium 1GHz/Athlon XP 1.33GHz 512MB of RAM Windows XP/Vista or later
• Suggested: Pentium 2.4GHz/Athlon XP 2.4GHz 1GB of RAM Windows XP/Vista or later
• Supported Plug-in formats: VST RTAS

IK Multimedia SampleTron - Crossgrade Features:

• Contains over 600 presets from 17 rare and vintage Mellotrons Chamberlins and their derivatives
• Includes "loop" and "non-loop" modes for greater flexibility and authenticity
• Chromatic samples capture the complete authentic tone of each instrument
• Works as a standalone application as well as a plug-in
• Fully compatible with Mac OS X (Universal Binary) and Windows (XP/Vista)
• Supported plug-in formats: VST RTAS and AU
• 16 part multitimbral
• 256 notes polyphony
• 16 individual stereo outputs
• Mix view and full mix parameters control
• 32 DSP-based multi-effects (see Effects List)
• Range Control allows for creating complex splits and layers
• Total sound editing with full access to 50 Synth-Sampler engine controls
• Instrument browsing
• BPM syncable LFOs
• Portamento Time control
• Zone feature for single sample accurate editing
• Part Volume/Pan controls
• Expanded easy to use full MIDI control
• Part and Combi preset save features
• Convenient back-up function
• Search function
• Sounds can be read by SampleTank 2
• 3 Synth Engines: Newly enhanced STRETCH Pitch-Shift/Time-Stretch Traditional Resampling
• 3 performance modes: Poly Mono Legato 1-2
  
  SampleTron-specific Macro Controls
• Sustain: Allows the samples to stop (more authentic) or loop continuously (more easily playable)
• Tone: Makes the sound brighter or darker much like the "Tone" knob on the Mellotron
• Key Release: Switches between the abrupt cutoff of the classic "trons" and a more natural cutoff for optimal performance
• Noise Resonance: Controls how much noise is heard in the sound
  
  Effects list:
• Reverb Spring Reverb Reverb Delay Ambience Delay
• Filter Envelope Filter Multi Filter Wah-Wah
• Chorus Multi Chorus Phaser Flanger Envelope Flanger
• AM Modulation FM Modulation
• Auto Pan Tremolo Rotary Speaker
• Lo-Fi Distortion Phonograph Crusher Overdrive
• Pre Amp Tone Control Cabinet
• Parametric EQ Channel Strip Compressor Limiter Slicer

Save yourself $40 with this crossgrade offer from IK Multimedia! Order SampleTron today!