Made With Melda

[Hexspa]

Hi everyone. I made this track called "Mona Cusis" using the pitch tracking modulator to give pink noise some motion as the lead instrument. The bass is from the additive module in MSF. Most of the other effects are melda as well.

Incidentally, this is the one where I used MChorusMB to make the bass stereo. Next time I'll try MDoubleTracker or the other ones Vojtech recommended.




I didn't see another thread where everyone is posting work made using mostly Melda tools. Feel free to post your own stuff here, if you want.

Thanks.

[LaNonchalance]

Hoo great initiative and cool sound! Thanks for sharing!

[mccy]

Cool!

[Hexspa]

Thank you, LaNon and mccy. Looking forward to hearing others' work made with these fine tools.

[HorusAnd]

Hi everyone. I made this track called "Mona Cusis" using the pitch tracking modulator to give pink noise some motion as the lead instrument. The bass is from the additive module in MSF. Most of the other effects are melda as well.

Incidentally, this is the one where I used MChorusMB to make the bass stereo. Next time I'll try MDoubleTracker or the other ones Vojtech recommended.




I didn't see another thread where everyone is posting work made using mostly Melda tools. Feel free to post your own stuff here, if you want.

Thanks.

"Here, dear watcher, I pull back the hymen of mystery" lmfao
Dope channel and song!

[Hexspa]

Hi everyone. I made this track called "Mona Cusis" using the pitch tracking modulator to give pink noise some motion as the lead instrument. The bass is from the additive module in MSF. Most of the other effects are melda as well.

Incidentally, this is the one where I used MChorusMB to make the bass stereo. Next time I'll try MDoubleTracker or the other ones Vojtech recommended.




I didn't see another thread where everyone is posting work made using mostly Melda tools. Feel free to post your own stuff here, if you want.

Thanks.

"Here, dear watcher, I pull back the hymen of mystery" lmfao
Dope channel and song!

Haha thank you. It helps me to get feedback.

Looking into acoustics? I'll be happy to offer what I know.

[mevla]

I recently started to use MChorusMB for the bass, on a send track. I use three bands and bring to 0 the level of the bass band, to accentuate mids and highs with that slight characteristic on chorus, and then blend the send track with the bass track with just the right amount to open up the bass sound just a bit. Works very nice with an upright bass style, or fretless electric.

[] Peter:H []

Some Contributions to the One Synth Challenge.
Only Synth is MSoundFactory:
https://soundcloud.com/p-e-t-e-r-h/oscs ... ctic-birds
https://soundcloud.com/p-e-t-e-r-h/the- ... your-angst
Only Synth is MPowerSynth:
https://soundcloud.com/p-e-t-e-r-h/the- ... n-expected

On mostly all none One Synth Challenge Tracks I use MStereoProcessor in the Master Chain and nowaday MTurboReverb as goto reverb... Examples:
https://www.soundclick.com/music/songIn ... D=14231947

[Hexspa]

"Linear" is like Trance, Big Beat, Chiptune and IDM, yes?

"Vital" is definitely more Trance, right? Is this a Big Room B section? What did you use on the bass here? I got carried away on your SoundCloud.

Did you intentionally do a deceptive rhythm intro on "Angst"? I never made one of those. The Depeche Mode is strong with this one.

I keep turning up "By My Side". Great vibe.

Please forgive me if I butcher the genres. I grew up with Metal in the US - not an electronic music expert by any means.

You've definitely mastered getting a variety of sounds to have their own place and compliment one another. Groove as well. I totally forgot that I'm 'listening to Melda'. Great work and definitely the kind of standard I aspire to. Thank you very much for sharing.

[Starship Krupa]

Haha thank you. It helps me to get feedback.

Well, here's some: that is one bangin'-ass track.

It's got multiple diverse elements I like: the Daft house beat and saw bass, the 007 guitar in the break....I also dig the Lolita Is Almost Famous graphic.

You must have played the Bond guitar. It has a more human feel than samples usually do.

Your background is metal, eh? I'm finally (after a musical life of experimental, postpunk and indie rock) doing something I've long wanted to, which is EDM. It's huge fun, isn't it? It can also be every bit as ferocious as any other genre (well, "Stigmata" proved the hell out of that decades ago).

I, too am kinda vague on sub-genre labels, as with all the music I've ever done, I just do whatever I like without worrying about fitting into genres. Afterwards, someone will point out that it sounds like Air or Pavement or whatever. I've gone 60 years on Earth without becoming a rock star, so it looks like I'm destined to be in it for personal enjoyment and maybe to entertain a small circle. Gives me freedom to do as I please.

Ob Made With Melda content: everything I've done for the past 5 years is Made With Melda, even if it's just an analysis plug-in. If it's live drums or anything else stereo mic'd, it has MAutoAlign and MStereoscope on it.

[Hexspa]

Hey, Starship. Thanks for that. It's sweet.

I loved Almost Famous but haven't seen nor read Lolita; heard about it, of course. Though I'm not huge into novels or movies, I did enjoy Great Expectations and I feel like that has a similar energy.

So, you think I played guitar on this track? I have no choice to take it as compliment to fool a veteran rocker. Though I'm almost ashamed to admit it, it's just a default Kontakt sound; probably in the Band library. Once the track was done, I did think to myself, "Maybe I should've actually played this..."

In any case, I've heard others recommend that keyboardists should play guitar if they want to program it. If this short section sounds like favorable support for such a position, then so be it. I don't play a lot of guitar these days but played fairly regularly since starting that instrument 28 years ago. It never really leaves you.

Dance music is super fun. For awhile, I've felt that the deep hatred for All Things that fueled my Metal life has dissipated. I'm not saying that one has to feel that to be into Metal - no - but I had to explore other moods. Despite this, I've been listening to 90's Rock a bit recently. I'm finding energetic vocals over a wash of distortion to be quite the format. Maybe I'll fire up MTurboAmp sooner than I thought. But yes, I've never been much for generic labels myself either.

60 years old, huh? I'm 22 years behind you and feel a similar sentiment. That said, I think 'missing the boat' might have had its upsides. The question is: did we really miss it or did it miss us? Personally, I kind of like doing what I want musically and without deadlines or contracts. To each their own.

Cheers.

[] Peter:H []

"Linear" is like Trance, Big Beat, Chiptune and IDM, yes?

"Vital" is definitely more Trance, right? Is this a Big Room B section? What did you use on the bass here? I got carried away on your SoundCloud.

Did you intentionally do a deceptive rhythm intro on "Angst"? I never made one of those. The Depeche Mode is strong with this one.

I keep turning up "By My Side". Great vibe.

Please forgive me if I butcher the genres. I grew up with Metal in the US - not an electronic music expert by any means.

You've definitely mastered getting a variety of sounds to have their own place and compliment one another. Groove as well. I totally forgot that I'm 'listening to Melda'. Great work and definitely the kind of standard I aspire to. Thank you very much for sharing.

Hey Hexspa, thanks for your kind feedback...

"Vital" is actually a Vital Synth only track. I think I have used MStereoProcessor (mono-ing bass and adding width to other bands), MSaturator and MUltraMaximizer in the Master Chain. The genre, yeah, I would say it's "trance" though not the most modern stuff...

Angst and all other tracks are strongly influenced by how I grew up with music ... it was kraftwerk, depeche mode, OMD etc. pp. I'm a child of the 80ties synth sound What a great time. But in the Track the reference to DM only happend by accident

You wrote "You've definitely mastered getting a variety of sounds" - I think taking part in the One Synth Challenges helped me a lot to get to some good amateurish level of sound design ... I would not say "mastered" ... still some way to go But it really helped me even with masteirng MSF, because MSF is the uber-synth containing everything and then some things on top

By the way. If you're interested in having some fun with synths and extending your skills, please feel invited to take part in the One Synth Challenge. Check out the current round and join us: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=564633
We are a friendly little community of synth enthusiast who love synths and try to get the best out of them. Looking forward to seeing yout there!

BTW: I very much enjoyed your soundcloud. But where's newer stuff! We want more Hexspa!

] Peter:H [

[Hexspa]

Awesome, Peter. I'll definitely keep One Synth Challenge in mind. You're right - I need to put more stuff out. Gotta close that gap and OSC will probably help.

Cheers.

[Starship Krupa]

So, you think I played guitar on this track? I have no choice to take it as compliment to fool a veteran rocker. Though I'm almost ashamed to admit it, it's just a default Kontakt sound; probably in the Band library. Once the track was done, I did think to myself, "Maybe I should've actually played this..."

In any case, I've heard others recommend that keyboardists should play guitar if they want to program it. If this short section sounds like favorable support for such a position, then so be it. I don't play a lot of guitar these days but played fairly regularly since starting that instrument 28 years ago. It never really leaves you.

Dance music is super fun. For awhile, I've felt that the deep hatred for All Things that fueled my Metal life has dissipated. I'm not saying that one has to feel that to be into Metal - no - but I had to explore other moods. Despite this, I've been listening to 90's Rock a bit recently. I'm finding energetic vocals over a wash of distortion to be quite the format. Maybe I'll fire up MTurboAmp sooner than I thought. But yes, I've never been much for generic labels myself either.

60 years old, huh? I'm 22 years behind you and feel a similar sentiment. That said, I think 'missing the boat' might have had its upsides. The question is: did we really miss it or did it miss us? Personally, I kind of like doing what I want musically and without deadlines or contracts. To each their own.

Wow, nice work with the Kontakt guitar. I am a picky listener for that and you did fool me. Loop/sample would have been my next guess, not keyboard. Single note lines are easier to cop, I think, it's when trying to play guitar chords that piano-trained people blow it. They should play the notes the guitar does, and "strum" them rather than playing them simultaneously as a pianist would. Guitar chords are like root-fifth-octave root-third-fifth-next octave root or whatever and a pianist will play root-third-fifth.

I have made a decision to stop worrying about being up to date on the latest whatever. I'm succeeding at it more and more. One of the benefits of getting older is the need for anyone to think I'm "cool" slips away year by year. Don't get me wrong, I love it when my friends' kids like my mixes, but it wouldn't ruin my day if they weren't impressed either. If they can be surprised by what the old dude comes up with, that's fun. If there's a boat metaphor, I'm probably in a dinghy lazily drifting up some slough where odds and ends from the main stream collect.

EDM is a genre like hardcore punk, death metal, rockabilly, diva pop, New Orleans jazz, hip hop, bebop, surf, bluegrass and jam bands, it's been around long enough that there will be a subculture for it for the foreseeable future. And nobody will care who's doing it, they'll listen to what's good.

In popular music, everything new is old, everything old is new. There's a teenaged whiz kid featured (along with Vojtech!) in this month's Computer Music and I popped over to YouTube to check him out. He's obviously listened to a lot of Daft Punk and Fatboy Slim, stuff from when I was your age, whippersnapper (I'm the same age as Fatboy Slim and the guys in Underworld and My Bloody Valentine) The kind of music fans I imagine reaching don't care much about the geezer behind it. Fun thing about dance music, it's one of the more "if it sounds good, it IS good" idioms. I can put a helmet over my head to hide my identity like Daft Punk and Deadmau5. Nobody cares as long as it causes derrieres to oscillate and/or heads to bang.

I think some of the best stuff comes from people trying to emulate older stuff and not getting it quite right. Danzig wanted to sound like Jim Morrison, Oasis wanted to sound like The Beatles, The Beatles wanted to sound like Buddy Holly. I want to sound like Com Truise and Sergio Mendes, but I'm not good enough at copying to get close enough. I might shoot for a Daft Punk vibe and try to sprinkle some David Tipper or Mexican Institute of Sound on it in the breakdown and then someone will tell me it sounds like something else entirely. Maybe The Postal Service or Delicate Steve. When I tried to make a Creedence song, it came out sounding more like Pavement.

One of the pieces in progress that's gotten the most positive feedback, I had no idea what to call it, but then found it slots pretty well into Acid Cumbia. So I produced an Acid Cumbia song by accident. A combination of sampling my housemate from Guadalajara and using Break Tweaker for drums, Waves Element for percussion, with heavily chopped MRhythmizer/MVocoder vocals. All I need is a killer breakdown and it's ready for weird hip kids in Mexico. Or whoever.

BTW, I'll drop some metal cred: back in the late '80's I played bass in a band with Wrest/Leviathan/Jef Whitehead on drums. Jef's a great drummer, the best rock drummer I've played with, great funk drummer too. I can still get dissatisfied enough with life and the world to draw on angst. In the 90's I was a West Coast shoegazer a la Brian Jonestown Massacre and Dandy Warhols. That was a transition to more positive energy.

Peter H., I liked "The Construction of Your Angst," it paints a mental picture of an '80's thriller movie. Suave men with silenced pistols are driving Italian supercars through your songs.

[Starship Krupa]

More for Peter H.: the imaging of the vocoded voice on "It's Vital That You Like This" is amazing! I've been getting into a couple of artists who make what I call sonic holograms, David Tipper and Telefon Tel Aviv and I'd like to get better at creating 3-D images. Things you can listen to in the dark and get a sense of placement around the room.

I like music that paints a picture in my mind, right now I'm listening to "HY-A-Gressive" and it's giving me an image of a huge outdoor festival with lights and smoke. Great electronic/psychoacoustic picture. The way your sounds come in and out from the sides and top and bottom is wonderful and slightly unsettling in a good way.

There's a flavor of Tangerine Dream (like Sorceror soundtrack era) in there somewhere. Moroder is lurking nearby.

There is so much great music being produced right now, every day. I see people my age (and younger) whining that music these days sucks, and I say if current music "sucks," it's because they have allowed themselves to get old and bored. If someone can spend even an hour browsing on Bandcamp and still say that music being made today is bad, then I think they're a lost cause. There's so much I could spend every waking minute discovering it.