[Video] My Favorite Melda Plugins

[Frankie.T]

The more you browse Melda catalog the more gems you find, the more you use them the more you love them... at least for me!
I decided to make a video for every company, showing my favorites, cause certain catalogs are big, and a better focus to know where to start may be helpful, expecially with Melda cause the catalog is huge!

So in this video i packed what i think are the bests, at least for me, and hopefully you can find it useful

I'm curious to know YOUR favorites from Melda, and if there is anything you'd like to see from them.
I.e. i'd love a kind of clone of izotope exciter (i'm sorry Melda but that's the top for workflow and sound) and a kind of MAutoPitchPRO would be awesome too

[MeldaProduction]

Exciter - MSaturatorMB
AutoPitch pro or something, one day hopefully!

[Frankie.T]

Exciter - MSaturatorMB
AutoPitch pro or something, one day hopefully!

Thank you for your reply!!
MSaturatorMB is very different from Izotope Exciter in sounds and functionality. If you listen i.e. their tape along the other modes sounds way different, and they are very good for mastering, expecially tape, diode/triode for mid-high/high frequencies and warm and analog for low frequencies. Then you can also process in a different way Mid and Side.
I know it may be more satisfying to do something different, but that plugin it work so well with the right workflow and sounds that imo needs to be "captured". You know in the market there are lots of clones about analog devices and other digital plugins too, but there is no alternative for Exciter, i made my research and it's just unique, and it's not good :p

I'm very happy to see that an AutoPitch pro-like will be there in the future!!!

[luckyred]

I wish Melda had some good sounding synth filters. It doesn't have to be on the same level as Cytomic, Fabfilter and the like right off the bat, but for some reason Melda seems to refuse to implement at least decent sounding analogue modeled synth filters. With MSF they have a huge playground for synth sounds but what is it worth without having decent sounding synth filters?

[steve2KVR]

...I guess I'm lost...can you quantify what "decent sounding analogue modeled synth filters" sound like? Or is this a la Justice Potter Stewart in 1964 on porn saying "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it?" Sorry, but "refusing" to implement something you can't quantify is not the situation here. With specifics something could be "done.".../s~

[mevla]

I presume 'warmth' would describe 'decent sounding analogue'. Eg. all u-he major synths.

It's certainly a feeling distinction between companies of many synths. It seems as if companies are branded by characteristics in their sounds and that's probably due to their filter design.

Some other companies (not Melda) persistently have a buzzing sound to their high end synths, proudly digital. which may sound amazing for some but for others lacks the warmth of what is called analog sounds. I find that Melda's MSF is in-between, not entirely in the 'warm-sounding synths (better than MPS though) and not entirely in the cold, buzz-is-the-way digital synths.

It might very well be that 'going by the book' does not yield the most warm-sounding filters.

Speaking of books, the comparison with porn isn't apt since math is not one of the rares aptitudes humans inherently have from birth. One can feel the sound differences but when asked about cannot provide update math algorithms to show what is meant. Unfortunately people have to study for this and in doing so are developing a language of their own. Whereas porn ...

[luckyred]

...I guess I'm lost...can you quantify what "decent sounding analogue modeled synth filters" sound like?

Hard to put into words. Let me try: Warm, punchy, dirty, slightly distorted maybe. It would be much easier to listen to one of the big name filters like from Cytomic The Drop, Fabfilter Volcano, a recent u-he synth, Synapse Audio The Legend has a nice filter sound. Those GForce Software have nice sounding Filters as well. Bought that Minimonsta a few weeks ago.

Compare any of these filter sounds to the MSF ones. You hear the difference?

Don't get me wrong, I own lots of licenses by Melda: their MSF, their Drummer thingy, a few FX Bundles and some of their other brand names stuff like "WA Production drum thingy" (don't remember the nameright now), of few plugins by "JMG Sound", other "United Plugins", etc. I like Melda, particularly my MTurboReverb occasionally sounds great on certain material. But again: for some reason: no decent sounding filters. I wish they would improve on that front.

[Frankie.T]

...I guess I'm lost...can you quantify what "decent sounding analogue modeled synth filters" sound like?

Hard to put into words. Let me try: Warm, punchy, dirty, slightly distorted maybe. It would be much easier to listen to one of the big name filters like from Cytomic The Drop, Fabfilter Volcano, a recent u-he synth, Synapse Audio The Legend has a nice filter sound. Those GForce Software have nice sounding Filters as well. Bought that Minimonsta a few weeks ago.

Compare any of these filter sounds to the MSF ones. You hear the difference?

Don't get me wrong, I own lots of licenses by Melda: their MSF, their Drummer thingy, a few FX Bundles and some of their other brand names stuff like "WA Production drum thingy" (don't remember the nameright now), of few plugins by "JMG Sound", other "United Plugins", etc. I like Melda, particularly my MTurboReverb occasionally sounds great on certain material. But again: for some reason: no decent sounding filters. I wish they would improve on that front.

Have you tried MFilter? I like the static hp/lp and dj hp/lp, i don't know if this is what you are looking for though

[steve2KVR]

@luckyred..."Hard to put into words." was the point I was trying to make, "I know it when I see it." We all have preferences/biases that we filter the world through, so the criticism of something for not matching personal preferences doesn't contribute much to the conversation. Saying I don't like/enjoy something is totally legit. And being specific about it is a contribution...(I think I'm sounding like that guy, apologies).../s~

[luckyred]

...I guess I'm lost...can you quantify what "decent sounding analogue modeled synth filters" sound like?

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Have you tried MFilter? I like the static hp/lp and dj hp/lp, i don't know if this is what you are looking for though

Quick and dirty: I installed MFilter, started my 14 days trial, took my Rob Papen BIT-2, loaded a sawtooth arp preset, bypassed the BIT-2-filters and put on every 2 bars either the ancient (released over 10 years ago?) GForce impOSCar 2 FX -- only LP filter -- or the MFilter: clean, only LP, cutoff open and close via a DAW-LFO in about 0.55 Hz, roughly 1 bar each cycle. Volume roughly matched, resonance roughly match (about 25% each), no comp, no EQ, no limiter, no nothing. Wanted to see for myself if Melda had improved over time.

Bar 1,2 and 5,6 is the one plugin, bar 3,4 and 7,8 the other.
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Hmm .. seems I can't upload MP3. Am I allowed to use a file hosting service? How do you post audio examples here?

[luckyred]

ups, I see I made a mistake .. fixing it .. hehe

EDIT: left the HP a tiny bit open on MFilter. It's fixed. Well, okay here is what I think: I still prefer the good old GForce Imposcar 2 Filter but I can see why to some people that doesn't matter as much. Yapp I know: what is the slope of the filter, etc. Again, quick and dirty, just a sanity check for myself. Wish I could post my audio file though.
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[Frankie.T]

I don't know these other filters, but they may be a good hint for Melda to see if there are differences in a more analitycal way, or just to have an idea on what you are looking for. They could even be "recreated" and implemented on MFilter.

I think Filters are very important for music production and are part of synths sound, aswell as automation. If you listen the 2 statick filter from Melda they are different as "every" filter you find on synths are different. It's about slopes, resonances and poles afaik, along the way they may evolve while changing frequencies.

[Held]

MTurboFilter will probably be released soon which offers a lot of flexibility when it comes to filter design. How good it is at recreating the analog vibe remains to be seen.