recommendations for mangling?

[killmaster]

Hi,

I'm newly using Melda plugins MGranularMB and MTransformer. My aim is to completely transform ordinary audio into musical beautiful mangled sounds and I can get there with these 2 plugins. Can you recommend other plugins that also allow complete transformation like these? Creative ways to completely alter recorded natural sound.

thanks,

Greg K.

[MeldaProduction]

Hi Greg,

now that's a very very broad question and the plugins are just too powerful to say do this to do that, there are so many possibilities. But we'll see what others will say. Anyways also take a look at the new MTurboReverb and basically everything in the MCreativeFXBundle.

[jmg8]

Hi,

I'm newly using Melda plugins MGranularMB and MTransformer. My aim is to completely transform ordinary audio into musical beautiful mangled sounds and I can get there with these 2 plugins. Can you recommend other plugins that also allow complete transformation like these? Creative ways to completely alter recorded natural sound.

thanks,

Greg K.

MMorph

[killmaster]

Hi Greg,

now that's a very very broad question and the plugins are just too powerful to say do this to do that, there are so many possibilities. But we'll see what others will say. Anyways also take a look at the new MTurboReverb and basically everything in the MCreativeFXBundle.

Thank you!

[killmaster]

Hi,

I'm newly using Melda plugins MGranularMB and MTransformer. My aim is to completely transform ordinary audio into musical beautiful mangled sounds and I can get there with these 2 plugins. Can you recommend other plugins that also allow complete transformation like these? Creative ways to completely alter recorded natural sound.

thanks,

Greg K.

MMorph

thanks jmg8! It helps to hear. Been eyeing that one in particular!

[cron]

Hi,

I'm newly using Melda plugins MGranularMB and MTransformer. My aim is to completely transform ordinary audio into musical beautiful mangled sounds and I can get there with these 2 plugins. Can you recommend other plugins that also allow complete transformation like these? Creative ways to completely alter recorded natural sound.

thanks,

Greg K.

MMorph

thanks jmg8! It helps to hear. Been eyeing that one in particular!

MMorph is incredible. Extraordinarily flexible, what with all the pre-processing options like spectral compression and harmonic generation etc that can really help things mesh when morphing radically different sounds together.

I (personally) don't think that morphing from A to B is particularly interesting or impressive in any piece of software. It's a novelty effect that's already outstayed its welcome well before you reach the bottom of Kyma's sound examples page. It's the hybrid sounds inbetween the two (50% A, 50% B) where the magic lies for me, and Melda's approach with all the pre-processing options gives you a dazzling amount of control over those wonderful 'inbetween' sounds, especially when compared to the obvious competing plug-in which gives you precisely none.

[MeldaProduction]

Thank you!

[killmaster]

o man. been using presets and now I want to get into these plugs more but its overwhealming. Where is the best place to start to really learn these? I see the tutorials online, but should I just start watching all of them? There doesn't seem to be too many tutorials on specific plugin use...

[cron]

If you're interested in MMorph, it's a (fairly) straightforward plug where the built-in help system explains every parameter very nicely.

As for the insanely complex multiband plug-ins, this video has some useful information which is applicable over the entire range. It also taught me how the level crossover (IMO one of the best features) works, and of course version 11 which came out yesterday adds spectral and tonal/transient crossovers that I'm assuming work in a similar way.

Melda plugs can be really daunting at first glance, but you don't need to learn everything they offer to get great results. I probably only touch about 10% of the functionality in the multiband plugs I own, and it's more than enough. Still, it's nice to have those advanced features for when you want to do something extremely specific because you know the plug can almost certainly do it, no matter what you've got in mind. My advice for getting started would be to stick with the core functionality and learn more as/when/if you need it. And, of course, anything you learn in one Melda plug is applicable to most of them because of the standardised framework they all run on. For the most part, you don't really need tutorials on individual plug-ins, because when you understand one you understand them all.

[killmaster]

If you're interested in MMorph, it's a (fairly) straightforward plug where the built-in help system explains every parameter very nicely.

As for the insanely complex multiband plug-ins, this video has some useful information which is applicable over the entire range. It also taught me how the level crossover (IMO one of the best features) works, and of course version 11 which came out yesterday adds spectral and tonal/transient crossovers that I'm assuming work in a similar way.

Melda plugs can be really daunting at first glance, but you don't need to learn everything they offer to get great results. I probably only touch about 10% of the functionality in the multiband plugs I own, and it's more than enough. Still, it's nice to have those advanced features for when you want to do something extremely specific because you know the plug can almost certainly do it, no matter what you've got in mind. My advice for getting started would be to stick with the core functionality and learn more as/when/if you need it. And, of course, anything you learn in one Melda plug is applicable to most of them because of the standardised framework they all run on. For the most part, you don't really need tutorials on individual plug-ins, because when you understand one you understand them all.

wow!! thanks so much for the great advice and video!

[Kalamata Kid]

musical beautiful mangled sounds

This is what caught my eye. Often mangling is glitchy.
I prefer to input a beautiful sound and output a different beautiful sound.
It seems that the Melda plugins can do this.
Are there other to look at?

[killmaster]

musical beautiful mangled sounds

This is what caught my eye. Often mangling is glitchy.
I prefer to input a beautiful sound and output a different beautiful sound.
It seems that the Melda plugins can do this.
Are there other to look at?

I've had good luck with some Reaktor user library ensembles as well. And Twisted Tools at slow BPM.