Oh, and if you don’t own an iLok, you can get one sort of kind of for free. You can instead choose to log in with Twitter that automatically follows their Twitter account, but nothing else. Update: Some people are unhappy sharing data with the Coupon app on Facebook. The Facebook app is also reasonable benign it didn’t post anything to my account when I just tried it. And you need an iLok in order to use the authorization it’s a shame they didn’t just do an unlocked build, but if you already have an iLok sitting in a hub, you won’t care much. You have to follow UVI on Twitter or Like them (via an app) on Facebook. There are some caveats to getting it for free. It’s always tough to know how to best capture as a digital instrument something as idiosyncratic as the Mellotron in this case, they’ve multi-sampled dozens of tapes on three different machines for the 28 sounds. They’re giving away their multi-sampled Mello emulation. Sample house UVI have been doing a lot of nice work lately – including some real rarities like the prepared piano at Paris research center IRCAM. But its 8-second tapes helped define a classic sound – Strawberry Fields, forever. At 350 pounds (159 kg), the original Mellotron is not an easy instrument to acquire … or lift.
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