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A ‘60s forerunner to samplers, the original Mellotron M400 worked by playing back magnetic tape recordings of various orchestral instruments. It’s a process that brought with it some beautiful quirks and a distinctively unreal-yet-organic character.
All of the Mellotron’s original imperfections and performance nuances are recreated in Live through nine individual multi-sampled instruments. Brass, string, voice and wind instruments are included, plus three full ‘tape’ instruments that let you blend between instrument recordings in the same way as the M400 version. The result is a playable and extremely useable set of sounds that can often fit into your tracks better than realistic orchestral samples.
The instruments are presented in playable Macro-mapped Instrument Racks, and there are more than 150 MIDI clips with professionally performed phrases to get you started.
Here’s more on the individual instruments captured:
MK II Flute
Instantly conjuring Abbey Road 60s/ Strawberry Fields psychedelia, the flute is the most recognizable of Mellotron’s sounds. It’s also perhaps the eeriest and most mesmeric, thanks to its dubious pitching, quirky intonation and changing timbres.
String Section
A combination of violins, viola and cello – layer these multisampled strings together in chords or clusters for some outlandish string effects.
Brass
Layered trumpets, saxes and a trombone are combined into a seriously beefy sound – as used by King Crimson, Rick Wakeman, The Moody Blues and John Lennon.
Cello
Renowned for its melancholy timbre, the Cello has a unique character – described by some as “wheezing and groaning”. The Cello sound was originally recorded with a double bassist used for the lower registers.
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Clarinet
Warm and woody in timbre, the Microtron clarinet patch is programmed an octave higher for harmonic layering with other Microtron sounds.
Glenn Miller
Inspired by the big-band swing sounds of Glenn Miller, these layered brass sounds come warped, flanged and mangled in the classic Mellotron tape style.
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Octave Recorders
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Composed of soprano, alto and tenor recorders, this instrument has a solid woody tone with breathy articulations. Playing fast staccato chords will result in a sounds reminiscent of a harmonium.
French Horn
Big and bluesy-sounding, the French Horn gets its charm from a combination of brassy grit and the Mellotron's analog tape nuances.
8 Voice Choir
This recording of four females and four males was first used in the early ‘70s, then widely adopted by rock groups in the decades that followed.
There’s nothing like the sound of an orchestral ensemble to set the right tone for your music. Startling horns and short string stabs bring up the tension, while slow, sustained bowing and fluttering woodwinds establish a more elegant atmosphere. The only problem with orchestral sounds is that you normally need an actual orchestra to get them.
Enter the ProjectSAM Orchestral Ensemble Essentials. Gorgeously multisampled and custom-built for Ableton Live, OEE features a robust selection of close-mic string, brass and woodwind ensemble sounds and one-shot orchestral effects samples from the industry-standard Symphobia series - giving you the power of an orchestra on your computer.
Is it live or is it Live?
Beyond just sampling the sounds, OEE also picks up the natural placement of the instruments in an orchestra. Use the Stereo Macro featured in the ready-to-use Instrument Racks to preserve the pristine placement of the sounds, or add your own stamp to it with effects. For maximum realism, Orchestral Ensemble Essentials includes multiple articulations such as staccato, pizzicato, tremolo, and spiccato. Intelligently-mapped Macros allow for both quick switching between these articulations, and highly musical crossfades during held notes (such as fading from a sustained string ensemble to a tremolo string ensemble or adding a lower octave for extra body) are also possible. For even more variety, several instruments include doublings, such as piano and xylophone.
Orchestral Ensemble Essentials is designed for a vast range of musical situations, from film scoring to hip-hop to experimental filtering and effects chopping. Think of Orchestral Ensemble Essentials as a plug-and-play orchestra at your fingertips - or add Live’s effects to make something entirely new. Whatever you do with OEE, there’s no session booking required.