[Feature Request]Astrolab support for Mellotron V CP70 V - possible?

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#1

As a proud owner of the Astrolab since It’s earliest OS, I have always missed the support of Mellotron V and the CP-70 V. With every announcement of a new OS I found myself shivering with anticipation to these… but to no avail until now.

While still being jam-packed with such an amazingly profound colour pallette, the instrument doesn’t seem to be complete without the inclusion of these highly-acclaimed emulations. And these two are particularly useful in a Live-band context. They are definitely among the keyboardist’s best sound tools - the Mellotron
is soaring with meaningfulness, and a good CP is remarkably confident and percussive without masking other players.

Yes, I know there are some patches that serve as substitutes (such as the Early Prince CP-70 from the Emulator V and Melo Flutes from the Sampler instrument), but these are pale excuses for all the sheen and glory of the excellent full emulations.
I can only assume that the instrument can handle these in terms of sample length and overhaul complexity.
After all, Astrolab handles meticulous emulations of numerous instruments with complex sonic structures so well!

I feel that an inclusion of the Melo V and CP-70 V flagship emulations would truly complement the Astrolab ecosystem, and can also help the acceptance of the 88 key model.
What do you think?

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#2

HI @mamushkin and thanks for the suggestion/request.

I’ve slightly tweaked your title to reflect this, and so The Arturia Devs will be more likely to see it.

HTH!

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#3

That’s excellent @matjones ! Thanks man. Hopefully, users that invested their funds in buying the V collections will benefit from that.

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#4

Anyone as Arturia see this? With the release of Astrolab 37, if you add Mellotron libraries + on device (or via smart phone, see bobeats review video) setting up of keyboard A/B splits and split points, you d bury the Mellotron modules/keyboards.

Come on Arturia

#5

Arturia has seen this and is aware.

For now, the most famous Mello tapes (Strings, Flutes, Choirs,… and even Wine Glasses) are already included in AstroLab under the “Sampler” instrument.
But I agree it would be better to get the full Mellotron V (with the ability to load new “tapes”/samples).

As for the CP70V, although Arturia has not confirmed this, I believe a version of it will eventually make it to AstroLab, but I don’t know when.

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#6

+1 on this feature request. How about 2 channels of Mellotron, with a nice A/B fader, similar to the original instrument?

#7

With the existing Sampler/SFZ Engine presets of Mello Tapes, you can create a Multi with a Mello tape on Part1 (say, MkII 3 Violins) and another on Part2 (say, M400 Mixed Choir), and create a Macro that adjusts the crossfade between Part1 and Part2 on a single knob.

#8

Good idea.

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