Introduction Thank you for purchasing the AIR Mellotron plugin instrument. The AIR Mellotron plugin is a recreation of the legendary tape sample keyboard machine featured on countless classic Rock albums. This plugin instrument version is designed for fresh, creative music production with a wide array of parameters, settings, and controls to craft an expansive range of keyboard instrument sounds.
Setup Section 1. Keyboard: Click this icon to enable or disable the virtual keyboard. When enabled, you can click these keys to input notes, or view notes being played on an external MIDI device. 2. Tempo: Displays the current plugin tempo. To change the tempo: •...
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FX Toggle and Global Controls Parameter Description Value Range Effects Toggles the main plugin view between synth parameters and Off, On effects parameters. Poly Number of voices available. 1–40 Key Off Amount of key-off noise. 0–100% Enables or disables key action noise on note off. Off, On Key On Amount of key-on noise.
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Synth Controls Parameter Description Value Range Clean Enables or disables a cleaner sample sound. Off, On Model Tape Select the tape loop sample. 8 Voice Choir, Boys Choir, Flute, Violins 1, Violins 2, Violin Formant Decreases or increases the harmonic resonance of -12 –...
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FX Controls Parameter Description Value Range Flavor Click the button next to the effect name to enable or Off, On disable the flavor effect. Timbre Selects an emulation type to color the sound. Varies Timbre Depth Amount of timbre emulation applied to the sound. 0–100% Flutter Amount of speed fluctuation of the sound playback.
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Parameter Description Value Range Delay Click the button next to the effect name to enable or Off, On disable delay. Time Amount of time between the dry signal and the 1/16 – 16/4 delayed signal. Feedback Amount of signal fed back into the delay line. 0–100% Reso LP Freq Low pass frequency for feedback resonance.
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