MAutoDynamicEQ - I've used this for years. The major selling point for me was / is the ability to track EQ nodes with midi notes. There was only one other plugin that could do this at the time ( that I was aware of ) and it cost 3x the amount.

Others I have bought are MAnalyzer, MUnison & MCompare

I bought nearly 20 of them ca 10 or more years ago but don't use them.
Don't like the gui and layout and how to interact with them.
And for me personally they even got worse over the years as the only knob style I could work with got removed several years ago (some sort of sliders)...

It's probably the most tweakable reverb plugin ever created... and by a wide margin. Among (many) other things, it actually lets you create your own algorithms. That being said, it can also be a bottomless pit of options.

This is pretty much the deal with lots of Melda plugs. They are squarely aimed at tweakers. In some cases, that means you can get results with them that just aren't possible with other plugs.

I appreciate that about them, but it's a double-edged sword for sure if you have anything else to do for the next month.

Even the basic freebies are WAY deeper than they seem on the surface. My most used plug by far is mWaveShaper which is free. It can be much more than a clipper, but even in that basic function, it can do everything kClip can do plus much more, can do it with a WYSIWYG interface (in squared mode at 100%), but then adds utterly insane oversampling options, interpolation modes, etc.

Exactly. I think I've seen a couple of commercial plug-ins getting recreated, more or less fully, with one of those freebies (Melda anyway).

As with anything else, Melda's not for everyone. Here's for differences and options!

As everyone mentions here, the plugins themselves produce elite results. But when I have to struggle to get comfortable with a plugin, then it has to go. I need my workflow to feel non-existent, and they cram so much functionality and models into each plugin that it's hard to become proficient with them.

I'm not a fan of the Melda GUI and there are bizarre design choices, like using the mouse right-click for parameter reset (literally not used by anyone else, so I always forget it).

That said, I really like the MVocoder (just a nice sounding, configurable vocoder) and MDoubleTracker (great for subtle vocal widening and generally giving stereo spread to mono sources where needed), both of which I bought on sales.

I honestly think a lot of the Melda “presets” are generated with the randomize function with randomly generated names. For most plugins they are close to useless. Otherwise, I concur with everything said about excellent DSP and idiosyncratic UI. MSoundFactory is one of the greatest digital modular toolkits.

Maybe there should be more efforts into sharing great user presets, I don't know.

I should perhaps mention that, except possibly for Native Instruments, u-he and Waves, I typically feel presets s*** most of the time. But Melda presets are a little less usable still. But it's fast to dial in what I need.

he did however, pay $1200 for a Pcm70

How could they not do this already, its like the reason I want to maybe drop them as a product. Like why would they release Turbo filter, a filter that needs to be programed to use it, but include no presets! Also there is no documentation on anything, what they currently do is auto generated crap with no context or reason/background on any parameter and there is probably 400000+ parameters. For example is the parameter is a wet/dry knob, the documentation will say: "this is a knob that controls how wet or dry the mix is". In other word there is no documentation, luckily Ai has helped understand things slightly better.

I don't know. I suppose you could be good at audio software development, but not as good at preset development. Or have other priorities, like making your product work everywhere. I'd put presets quite down on my list of what I prefer developers focus at. As I've hinted at previously, because I don't need presets that much. Sometimes presets can be immensely useful. Far too often they're like a demo of the tool and I just want to delete them all.
Bad example as the MTurboFilter is not released yet.

Have you considered asking Melda?

If you have them as expired demos dont they make some kind of sound or annoying noise? Bc I'm fine with the demo version but i had a track with these and now I can't do anything about it (especially the Mharmonizer) do you have any trick to make it stop?

Trick? Why are you asking for this?

Deinstall the plug-in or pay for it. Simple.

Melda plugins are the Reaper of FX. If you’re an engineer or have an engineer mindset, go for it.

I can’t stand using them. I far prefer others.

Nearly every mix here has some Melda AutoAlign (Bass cab/DI for example) and they have a good number of plugins that are super usefull. They run solid and never gave me trouble.
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I started paying monthly for the full bundle about 6 months ago. They do everything I want them to do, and I'm still learning creative or time-saving ways to use them better. Their interface is great if you use them a lot, because all the options are basically in the same place on all the plugins - automatic gain control, oversampling, AB testing and morphing - always in the same place, no brain power required to find it. It's definitely functional rather than pretty - but I actually think that's a good thing, because you end up using your ears more than your eyes.

It's clearly a company run by techies, with absolutely zero marketing or business development skills, though. The online videos are a bit lame, there's no forum that I can find, and no mechanism that I can see for sharing presets (free or paid) - which is just mad, considering that (as someone said earlier) you can actually design your own reverbs, compressors, complex FX chains, you name it.

Absolute top quality software though. I bought a bunch of plugins from other vendors in the past, and I'm realising that I don't need any of them any more - even Gullfoss (though I still do use that, as it's convenient and I already own it). Waves will not be getting another penny from me.

Their virtual instruments are very clever too - they can do everything that things like Serum and Addictive Drums can do, but there they really suffer from not having a community of people sharing presets - you have to do too much of the tweaking yourself to make it worthwhile.

Great great products, after-service - meh, community - none that I can find!

with the full bundle, I reckon you could re-create pretty much any plugin on the market - even the so-called smart ones like Soothe and Gullfoss. But, depending on how much you value your own time, it might not be worth it!

They really need to do more to build a community so the super-geeks can share presets that do the cool stuff.

Their GUI is convoluted looking and always just annoyed me. It's like nothing is ever where you want it to be. Plus their installer is a bit of a PITA because it just lists everything and you have to select what you already own or something. Just give me an installer for the single plugin I bought.

I don't really have anything from them. I had installed them years ago as a demo..I think version 9. And then there came a time when I could have used one of their plugins so I redownloaded everything as it was now version 11 but when I installed it, it said the trial was expired because I had already demoed the plug back when it was version 9! So I emailed Melda and asked if they could reset my trial because now it's two versions (and a few years) later and I think this plug can benefit me now so I want to test it and they actually wrote back and told me no! They said that back when I demoed it at version 9, I should have figured out then if I wanted it or not and even though it was years later they wouldn't reset my trial!

I had to actually laugh about the whole thing because I realized the people behind melda were about as retar**d as their gui looked.

Eventually I did want mautoalign but I purposefully waited until they had the 50% off sale on it and then it went to Audiodeluxe and I had another coupon for Audiodeluxe that stacked and I had deluxe bucks and so when it was done, I think I got mautoalign for like one or two dollars. I wanted to make sure they didn't get sh!t from me lol.

Meanwhile I think I used mautoalign no more than twice since I got it because I hate their gui so much lol. Good thing it didn't cost me anything.

Good sounding useful plugins, BUT! EVERYONE hates the GUI, its the global echo system In/Out meter stuff on every plugin and strange icons and colours, I use the DynamicEQ sometimes which has saturation on separate bands, you can get a funky breakbeat going with that like no other plugin.

Actually, the installer remembers what you chose last time, so this is a one time affair.

You don't see these in your plug-in windows?:

Anyway, that's the online exchange presets. Anyone can share, I do assume and then everyone can download, I think. Once downloaded they're found under that name. Don't expect hundreds.
Some of the Melda community can be found at KVR. I'm not sure how much preset activity there is.

I don't have much against tweaking and most presets are demo usable only anyway.

i didn't... but I do now, thank you - and for the link too - will check it out

Just wanted to post this here too.

Disclaimer: I don't intend to offend anyone, rather just share my own thoughts on Melda UI design practises. I would very much love to work on a new iteration of design for Melda. This comes from a place of appreciation towards the quality of the DSP.

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Melda plugins always looked a bit user-unfriendly to me. Very advanced, but not particularly inviting.

When I heard that they added "simpler" UIs modelled after the gear the specific settings were modelling, I was eager to go find some screenshots. Then I saw them...



The generic font, oversaturated colors (this is supposed to be an API) which have no relation to the colors used on the original hardware design...

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What about the MSoundFactory?



Why did they choose the "chop-suey" wonton font? Why? I simply can't understand the decisions behind this design.



Look at that Lead Maker UI. Knobs which feel randomly put together without any unity between them, the "quirky" shapes - it just looks like a "cool" UI from 2005. Toxic cyan, green and red don't go together in this case.

And this is just some base-level criticism for the simple UIs. The regular Melda UIs are simply too advanced for beginners, while the simplified ones are uninviting.

I would have no issues if the plugins discussed above were free or were relatively inexpensive, but Melda is targeting the professional market. MTurboReverb is listed for 299 Euro on the website and it looks like this



Once again I get the early 2000s vibes (which is funny cause I didn't even exist back then). And not in a "this feels like an authentic throwback to design practices at that time", but rather "it looks like design which hasn't stood the test of time." That "Orc Bakery" just feels a bit tacky.

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User Interface is one of the most important aspects of any app, plugins included. How many times have you read that people bought a Softube plugin "because it looks so pretty"? I have seen such comments at least several times. Underestimating the need for quality design can be limiting the number of people interested in using the product.

Have a look at the comment section of this youtube video discussing Melda plugins, where people are saying they are not interested in them because of the UI - youtube.com/watch?v=_amS3c8Oku8 (not linked, so there isn't a big youtube preview image in the post). This is only a tiny share of potential customers Melda is missing out on.

Melda's plugins are genuinely great and in a lot of cases amazing. I use the free ones, for example. I would just really personally love if they could adjust the approach to UI design.

I fully agree. Their GUI turns me off every time.

I recall that several smart people have said you should never mix with your eyes.

I like the fact that all their tools have a consistent gui, but that's because they are pretty much the only products I use now, since I realise they sound better than almost every other tool I own. I also get a degree of comfort (even if it might be placebo effect) from believing that I'm using my ears, and not being fooled by some gorgeous graphic re-creation of analog juiciness.

I wouldn't complain if they were prettier, but it wouldn't be high on my priority list

MAutoAlign and MDrumLeveler is excellent. On Par with the Sound Radix ones and I got both of them for a total of like 25$ with some coupons and a big sale of them.

Good UI isn't about "pretty" though. It's about ease-of-use and other aspects. Melda plug-ins are not hard to learn, but not super easy either. The file system interaction, like in MCompare and MRecorder, is just ridiculously badly implemented.

The user interface does affect how you do what you do, so in that way the UI does affect the sound. The main attraction of Melda plug-ins is the sound quality.

IMO their MTuner plugin is the best tuning (guitar) plugin out there. I know most people don't care about that, though.