Funkytron
Exclusive ‘Tron sounds from Alex Ball.
The first time GForce ever invited an artist to make new tapes. Alex recorded 27 banks from his own instruments: a £10 balalaika, a Dan Electro baritone, a complete System 100M.
A vocoder he refuses to sell, plus two rhythm and accompaniment sets in the MkII layout; then Streetly Electronics Tronized every note. Over 150 patches for M-Tron Pro.
Expansion Pack for M-Tron Pro
At a glance
27 Tape Banks
Guitars, basses, strings, keys, synths, drums, a vocoder and two full rhythm sets, 35 notes per bank, with over 150 M-Tron Pro patches.
Tronized At Streetly
Every recording was committed to tape and re-recorded through the Skeletron, and the rhythms were threaded onto an original MkII and captured from its own speaker.
Requires M-Tron Pro
An add on for registered M-Tron Pro users, available exclusively from this website as a 464MB direct download.
More features
A GForce Software and Alex Ball collaboration, with over 150 patches across 27 tape banks.
Fast Funk and Way Out West rhythms and accompaniments in the original Mellotron MkII layout.
Guitars and basses the Mellotron never had: baritone acoustic and electric, twang, tremolo, nylon, banjo, ukulele, balalaika, double bass and fretless.
Pizzicato violins and violas, System 100M, Multiman-S, Voice Spectra vocoder, analogue drums and drum synths.
The Sound Of Alex Ball
Alex Ball is a British composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, brought up the analogue way. A music producer at M&C Saatchi for over a decade, he has scored for Coca-Cola, Virgin Holidays, and TfL; scored trailers for Sackboy and Watch Dogs: Legion; scored the BAFTA-nominated Tee and Mo; and had music placed in Stranger Things. Since 2016, his YouTube synthesiser documentaries and film score breakdowns have made him one of the most trusted voices in the field. If you follow his channel, you know you are in for a treat. His recordings went to Streetly Electronics to be Tronized through the Skeletron, and the rhythms were threaded onto an original MkII, then came back to Alex for chopping and shoehorning into M-Tron Pro. Without that process, this could be viewed as a sample pack. With it, it is something unique.
Alex Ball Artist Expansion is also available with new purchases of the M-Tron Pro Complete bundle, which includes M-Tron Pro IV and all the Expansion Packs: a superb 12.5GB+ sound library with 525+ tape banks and 3700+ presets.
