I love Melda for its great feature set, its simplicity WRT license management, powerful utilities, and consistent GUI across plugins. But sometimes I scratch my head at the workflow and implementation, especially when it comes to the guitar specific products. Many of them seem to be developed with very little input from actual working musicians, and the documentation is often useless.
For instance, when auditioning IRs in MCabinet, there is no way to recall what IR is currently being auditioned. When mixing multiple cabinet profiles, this is extremely frustrating.
How do I see which profile is associated with which IR? The only way I can see to do it is to create a GUI and name the parameters, which is an unnecessary amount of work for what should be a simple base feature.
If I click the a profile load button, it send me to a root directory.
So not only does it not remember what file was in each profile, I must EACH time click through my folders and find an IR for loading. Wouldn't it make more sense to remember the directory I was in when I loaded the last profile?
If I am missing something here please let me know. This is extremely annoying.
MCabinet frustrations
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MeldaProduction MeldaProduction https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=176122 - KVRAF
- 14339 posts since 15 Mar, 2008 from Czech republic
The thing is, this is NOT a simple IR loader. The IRs are supposed to be the starting points and you can do hell of a lot with them, plus in most cases you would probably not load one, but a folder, so that you get more natural sound without all the nasty resonances normal IRs have. So recalling which one was that really isn't something we'd assume you want.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 28 posts since 9 Aug, 2019
Well it IS what people want. At the very least it should be apparent when blending multiple profiles which one is which without making an entire GUI environment around it in order to label them. It's basic file management shit. I have trouble believing there is any technical obstacle to implementing it, or at least giving users the option.
The resonators, wideners, smoothing, etc are interesting and cool, and in SOME cases handy, but most guitarists will be using them sparingly. In actual practical use, almost no one is interested in making their guitar sound like it's inside of a metal tube.
Most people collect IRs as an all in one solution for getting good cabinet resonances at the source.The documentation suggests that MCabinet exists as a solution to the time consuming problem of having to audition dozens or hundreds of IRs before a suitable one is chosen. It advises using MCabinet to average them and then use resonators to recreate a cabinet resonance. The documentation doesn't give any indication as to what any of the resonators are doing, telling us to just generate them at random until the desired sound is achieved - the exact workflow it supposedly exists to overcome
At least the old way you knew you were actually capturing a musical instrument and not an algorithm.
If what you are saying is that I should use a different software for blending IRs, I'm way ahead of you.
If you want to actually consult with a guitar player about what my demographic actually wants, let me know. I haven't really seen much sign of that in any of the existing guitar products Melda offers.
The resonators, wideners, smoothing, etc are interesting and cool, and in SOME cases handy, but most guitarists will be using them sparingly. In actual practical use, almost no one is interested in making their guitar sound like it's inside of a metal tube.
Most people collect IRs as an all in one solution for getting good cabinet resonances at the source.The documentation suggests that MCabinet exists as a solution to the time consuming problem of having to audition dozens or hundreds of IRs before a suitable one is chosen. It advises using MCabinet to average them and then use resonators to recreate a cabinet resonance. The documentation doesn't give any indication as to what any of the resonators are doing, telling us to just generate them at random until the desired sound is achieved - the exact workflow it supposedly exists to overcome
At least the old way you knew you were actually capturing a musical instrument and not an algorithm.
If what you are saying is that I should use a different software for blending IRs, I'm way ahead of you.
If you want to actually consult with a guitar player about what my demographic actually wants, let me know. I haven't really seen much sign of that in any of the existing guitar products Melda offers.