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[mgw38]

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[Spring Goose]

Finally got to upgrade to the complete Melda package. They're running a deal 60% off bundles until 15th March, took a look at my upgrade price and it had dropped from £1K+ to £116

Now where on the forum do I go to whine about the GUIs again?

My price is £56 for MEssentialsFXBundle. I think i would use MAutoDynamicEq. Does anybody have this bundle? what do you think of it?
The sale is just for this weekend? I don't think i really have much time to demo these.

MSpectralDynamics looks interesting. I already have the compressor. I don't need reverb. I have enough delays. I'm interested about MAutoVolume and MAutoAlign. I like the free MSaturator. I don't need limiter. I don't think i need MCompare, i have MetricAB. Does anybody know if MCompare works in for example Wavelab? MetricAB doesn't work in Wavelab.

I have this bundle.

I think it’s most useful for all the little automation (in the non-DAW sense) options it adds: MAutodynamicEQ lets you set up very quick sidechained dynamic EQ, MSpectraldynamicLE can be like a lite version of Gullfoss or a light denoiser, depending how you use it, MAutogain if you don’t have time to level a long spoken track, MAutoalign if you don’t want to do that by hand, etc.

Knowing how MCompare works, it should work in Wavelab (MCompare routes itself between two instances of itself, so in theory the DAW it’s hosted on shouldn’t matter), but I haven’t had the chance to try it.

On the whole it seems to me like the bundle of Melda FX that’s a kind of combination of being cheap option, but also many unusual mixing FX that are more unique to Melda

Thanks for replying for me.

[Spring Goose]

Finally got to upgrade to the complete Melda package. They're running a deal 60% off bundles until 15th March, took a look at my upgrade price and it had dropped from £1K+ to £116

Now where on the forum do I go to whine about the GUIs again?

My price is £56 for MEssentialsFXBundle. I think i would use MAutoDynamicEq. Does anybody have this bundle? what do you think of it?
The sale is just for this weekend? I don't think i really have much time to demo these.

MSpectralDynamics looks interesting. I already have the compressor. I don't need reverb. I have enough delays. I'm interested about MAutoVolume and MAutoAlign. I like the free MSaturator. I don't need limiter. I don't think i need MCompare, i have MetricAB. Does anybody know if MCompare works in for example Wavelab? MetricAB doesn't work in Wavelab.

I have this bundle.

I think it’s most useful for all the little automation (in the non-DAW sense) options it adds: MAutodynamicEQ lets you set up very quick sidechained dynamic EQ, MSpectraldynamicLE can be like a lite version of Gullfoss or a light denoiser, depending how you use it, MAutogain if you don’t have time to level a long spoken track, MAutoalign if you don’t want to do that by hand, etc.

Knowing how MCompare works, it should work in Wavelab (MCompare routes itself between two instances of itself, so in theory the DAW it’s hosted on shouldn’t matter), but I haven’t had the chance to try it.

On the whole it seems to me like the bundle of Melda FX that’s a kind of combination of being cheap option, but also many unusual mixing FX that are more unique to Melda

How would I use MSpectralDynamicsLE as a like lite version of Gullfoss?

[Hans25]

Waves One Knob Louder free for Presonus users when answering a questionary. Hopefully this works for others too. Maybe someone can confirm.
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Thanks! will add that as a not

[Ou_Tis]

"GeoFlute Sale $9.99 USD" (iOS) from now to March 25th.

Can anyone confirm whether the GeoSWAM instruments can be used as either inter-app audio or AU? The Roli Noise SWAM instruments can't.

"Can I use the GeoSWAM instruments with AUv3?

Yes, GeoShred can be hosted in any AUv3 host. As an AUv3 plugin instance, GeoSWAM instruments can be recorded and played back using GeoShred's keyboard or an MPE compliant controller."

So I guess this means I can record a MPE performance into an MPE-compatible iOS DAW like Cubasis 3 or Garage Band, edit the performance, and then play it back through the GeoSWAM instrument?

"Can the GeoSWAM instruments be controlled with a conventional MIDI Keyboard? [...] Because the MPE protocol was designed for controlling multidimensional instruments, the GeoSWAM instruments can be performed from the GeoShred keyboard, or MPE controllers ONLY."

If that means that GeoSWAM doesn't respond to conventional midi at all, that's very strange....

Also apparently not the same as the Roli SWAM:

"Audio Modeling licensed some early SWAM instruments to Roli. GeoShred is developed by Wizdom/moForte. We collaborated with Audio Modeling on more up-to-date models."

[Nspace]

I have this bundle.

I think it’s most useful for all the little automation (in the non-DAW sense) options it adds: MAutodynamicEQ lets you set up very quick sidechained dynamic EQ, MSpectraldynamicLE can be like a lite version of Gullfoss or a light denoiser, depending how you use it, MAutogain if you don’t have time to level a long spoken track, MAutoalign if you don’t want to do that by hand, etc.

Knowing how MCompare works, it should work in Wavelab (MCompare routes itself between two instances of itself, so in theory the DAW it’s hosted on shouldn’t matter), but I haven’t had the chance to try it.

On the whole it seems to me like the bundle of Melda FX that’s a kind of combination of being cheap option, but also many unusual mixing FX that are more unique to Melda

How would I use MSpectralDynamicsLE as a like lite version of Gullfoss?

XComposer compared Gullfoss to Sonible Smart EQ2 and MSpectrlDynamics in the informative "Gullfoss Eq" thread the following quote is from:

I have Gullfoss and sonible Smart EQ 2 and I will buy also MSpectralDynamics for sure.

They are different and can work together and I like very much all the three of them. I will try to explain, as far as I understand how they work.

Gullfoss is absolutely dynamic: starting from a psychoacoustic model about which frequency tends to mask and which tends to be masked in various situations, it allows to recover the masked frequencies or to attenuate the masking frequencies (or both, if you want). Then, you have a Brightness control (to adapt to your expectations according to your favorite timbre, genre and style) and a Boost control (a sort of "loudness" control, to accomodate to your recording means or listening environment).

Smart EQ 2 is not dynamic at all. It is rather something like MAutodynamicEQ, in that it listens to your audio and equalizes it automatically to match some reference profiles, but the reference profiles are based (again) on a psychoacoustic analysis of each instrument (violin, clarinet, cello, etc…); also the "Standard" profile is not simply representing the frequency response of a pink noise, as far as I understand, but rather a sort of "psychoacoustically corrected" version of it. The difference with MAutodynamicEQ, as I said, is that Smart EQ 2 is not dynamic at all. I have also MAutodynamicEQ, actually, and I really love it.

MSpectralDynamics, well, is fully dynamic, and you can read on this forum (and on Melda's site) what sort of jewel it is… The best of all: it can flatten the spectrum, make transparent sidechain ducking, shape the white noise, dynamically "equalize", compress or expand with incredible precision, match or differentiate spectra and much more. The fact that I own Gullfoss and Smart EQ 2 is not preventing me at all from buying it soon, since it's different and extremely powerful.

On a more precise answer about HOW to use it, it involves creating a preset (or copying/pasting one) as described at the "Here I go again: Melda vs. Sonible, Oeksund Soothe, Gullfoss?" thread:

Not sure why you would have a multi band spectral processor?

Just to be able to adjust its sensitivity or degress of compression per band. I was referring to Soothe with this which has this functionality. I just realised that you can do this in MSD itself by drawing threshold curve, then assigning modulation on threshold segments)

[GusGranite]

"GeoFlute Sale $9.99 USD" (iOS) from now to March 25th.

Can anyone confirm whether the GeoSWAM instruments can be used as either inter-app audio or AU? The Roli Noise SWAM instruments can't.

"Can I use the GeoSWAM instruments with AUv3?

Yes, GeoShred can be hosted in any AUv3 host. As an AUv3 plugin instance, GeoSWAM instruments can be recorded and played back using GeoShred's keyboard or an MPE compliant controller."

So I guess this means I can record a MPE performance into an MPE-compatible iOS DAW like Cubasis 3 or Garage Band, edit the performance, and then play it back through the GeoSWAM instrument?

"Can the GeoSWAM instruments be controlled with a conventional MIDI Keyboard? [...] Because the MPE protocol was designed for controlling multidimensional instruments, the GeoSWAM instruments can be performed from the GeoShred keyboard, or MPE controllers ONLY."

If that means that GeoSWAM doesn't respond to conventional midi at all, that's very strange....

Also apparently not the same as the Roli SWAM:

"Audio Modeling licensed some early SWAM instruments to Roli. GeoShred is developed by Wizdom/moForte. We collaborated with Audio Modeling on more up-to-date models."

These Geoshred SWAM IAPs are always inside Geoshred (which is an AUv3). The separate SWAM apps are AUs in their own right.

[asprog]

Hello,
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Any new customer who uses this code during checkout gets a 20 % discount

Thanks

[El°HYM]

Just to stay fair here:

MELDA3989356

Refer new customer to get credits

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On a more serious Note:

+1 for MSpectralDynamics

[El°HYM]

I would say that MSF is indeed a full blown up and very interesting Instrument & heard lots of good stuff from people actually using it (has a deep learning curve though) like Simon Stockhausen from: https://www.patchpool.net/msf_synth_factory.html. About the MPowerSynth, I am not really sure if that one is also worth it, especially with all the great competitors out there, yet also never tried that one out.

[gondii]

they are offering me meldacomplete for a great price but i already have totalfx nad mdrummer so it only adds powersynth and soundfactory.. are these synths any good, dont really need another synth but the modular aspect looks intriguing..

What's the upgrade price for just these two? I think MSF is immensely powerful and pretty unique.

[tonymax]

[quote=What's the upgrade price for just these two? I think MSF is immensely powerful and pretty unique.
[/quote]

a gentleman nevers asks about such things...

i think ill pass on it, i want my Ableton Suite back, had to sell it as i was desparate for money.. i have a short term job so may be able to buy, wish i could use paypal as there are some great offers in the buy section... but everyone wants to use paypal... blah...

[El°HYM]

Maybe also a very good Move, as Live 11 has become pretty powerful, imho.

[Spring Goose]

I have this bundle.

I think it’s most useful for all the little automation (in the non-DAW sense) options it adds: MAutodynamicEQ lets you set up very quick sidechained dynamic EQ, MSpectraldynamicLE can be like a lite version of Gullfoss or a light denoiser, depending how you use it, MAutogain if you don’t have time to level a long spoken track, MAutoalign if you don’t want to do that by hand, etc.

Knowing how MCompare works, it should work in Wavelab (MCompare routes itself between two instances of itself, so in theory the DAW it’s hosted on shouldn’t matter), but I haven’t had the chance to try it.

On the whole it seems to me like the bundle of Melda FX that’s a kind of combination of being cheap option, but also many unusual mixing FX that are more unique to Melda

How would I use MSpectralDynamicsLE as a like lite version of Gullfoss?

XComposer compared Gullfoss to Sonible Smart EQ2 and MSpectrlDynamics in the informative "Gullfoss Eq" thread the following quote is from:

I have Gullfoss and sonible Smart EQ 2 and I will buy also MSpectralDynamics for sure.

They are different and can work together and I like very much all the three of them. I will try to explain, as far as I understand how they work.

Gullfoss is absolutely dynamic: starting from a psychoacoustic model about which frequency tends to mask and which tends to be masked in various situations, it allows to recover the masked frequencies or to attenuate the masking frequencies (or both, if you want). Then, you have a Brightness control (to adapt to your expectations according to your favorite timbre, genre and style) and a Boost control (a sort of "loudness" control, to accomodate to your recording means or listening environment).

Smart EQ 2 is not dynamic at all. It is rather something like MAutodynamicEQ, in that it listens to your audio and equalizes it automatically to match some reference profiles, but the reference profiles are based (again) on a psychoacoustic analysis of each instrument (violin, clarinet, cello, etc…); also the "Standard" profile is not simply representing the frequency response of a pink noise, as far as I understand, but rather a sort of "psychoacoustically corrected" version of it. The difference with MAutodynamicEQ, as I said, is that Smart EQ 2 is not dynamic at all. I have also MAutodynamicEQ, actually, and I really love it.

MSpectralDynamics, well, is fully dynamic, and you can read on this forum (and on Melda's site) what sort of jewel it is… The best of all: it can flatten the spectrum, make transparent sidechain ducking, shape the white noise, dynamically "equalize", compress or expand with incredible precision, match or differentiate spectra and much more. The fact that I own Gullfoss and Smart EQ 2 is not preventing me at all from buying it soon, since it's different and extremely powerful.

On a more precise answer about HOW to use it, it involves creating a preset (or copying/pasting one) as described at the "Here I go again: Melda vs. Sonible, Oeksund Soothe, Gullfoss?" thread:

Not sure why you would have a multi band spectral processor?

Just to be able to adjust its sensitivity or degress of compression per band. I was referring to Soothe with this which has this functionality. I just realised that you can do this in MSD itself by drawing threshold curve, then assigning modulation on threshold segments)

Thankyou very much for your reply!

[wangeroge]

Is anyone using this plugin?

https://letimix.com/products/gainmatch

On sale for $12, which is probably a no-brainer, but I thought to get some opinions. Can't try it myself right now that's why.

Are there other bigger plugin companies offering the same functionality?