GForce has finally launched the M-Tron Pro - a software instrument that MusicRadar first glimpsed way back in January at the 2008 Winter NAMM Show. The plug-in's name gives you a pretty good idea of ...

The title track to Cathedral's double-length masterpiece is just the beginning of the Mellotron overdosing that happens on the album, but it's a good theme and a great starting point for demonstrating ...

"It is an iconic part of so much pop and rock music, but it's also an instrument that's yet to be fully explored," says jazz keyboardist John Medeski. Medeski is talking about the Mellotron. In ...

Few instruments in modern music have endured such a tormented life as the Mellotron. In the mid-1960s, the analog, tape-driven keyboard was hailed by rock 'n' roll artists as an expansive musical tool ...

Guitar, bass and drums are the conventional instrumentation for nearly all heavy metal. Some bands have also used organs or synthesizers, and throughout the history of the genre, a select few have ...

Washed Out’s “It All Feels Right” is something of a revelation. Released as the first single from the new album, Paracosm, the song bops along to a loping beat buoyed by sunny acoustic-guitar ...

"The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England, in 1963." That's the first sentence of the "Mellotron" entry on ...