Finally dedicated time to deep-diving the Melda plugins and it's blown my mind a bit - they're so powerful. It's strange that sound design community don't talk about them more because I can't think of an equal. Ended-up buying MXXX on sale - the plugin to end all plugins. Anyone else use them? - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

monomoon.bsky.social • 88 days ago

Finally dedicated time to deep-diving the Melda plugins and it's blown my mind a bit - they're so powerful. It's strange that sound design community don't talk about them more because I can't think of an equal. Ended-up buying MXXX on sale - the plugin to end all plugins. Anyone else use them?

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neccobus.bsky.social•88 days ago

@phrequencies.bsky.social introduced me to them. They’re super great!
HORRIBLE UI, but they sound excellent

phrequencies.bsky.social•88 days ago

I still swear by them. Consistently finding great results with anything I use.

monomoon.bsky.social•88 days ago

Having spent time learning the crazy features under the hood I've grown to... like the UI. I know. Weird right? It's all about the 'Argon' theme and a few little tweaks.

I had no idea the multiband plugins could split by things other than frequency e.g. by level, or stereo image, or transients 🤯

mhasselbalch.bsky.social•88 days ago

I use MSpectralDynamics all the time for resonance taming, but it works wonders for over the top spectral, phasey compression when using/abusing custom processing curves.
Echoing the others: overwhelming UI, but I love the features and depth of control.

monomoon.bsky.social•88 days ago

I need to really dig into MSD more.

I feel the UI makes a lot more sense in the context of MXXX as a modular environment because it allows pop-out windows and custom interface creation for patches. I actually prefer the UX in that context in than others (Snap Heap, Triad/Byome, Reaktor etc.)

ianjpalmer.bsky.social•88 days ago

I got the free pack when I switched to Reaper and lost all my waves stuff. Work quite well.

ptcomposer.bsky.social•88 days ago

Only really used the free ones! From what I’ve seen though you’re absolutely right. Crazy powerful units. What’s your favorite so far?

monomoon.bsky.social•88 days ago

I've used MConvolutionMB quite a lot over the years. There's a lot of transformations you can do to the convolution and being able apply different IRs to different frequencies is interesting e.g. applying different resonances/profiles to different parts of a sound to emulate materials.

mono.audio•87 days ago

Personally, I think MSoundFactory trumps MXXX, but only if you're in interested in synthesis more. You get MXXX *INSIDE* MSF, you just can't route external signals in to it, so you get aaallll the FX to play with, on top of some incredible synthesis stuff, all on the same platform.

monomoon.bsky.social•87 days ago

I was initially demoing MSoundFactory but realised I wanted to run external audio through it as well and MXXX has MSoundFactory and their other synth and drum plugins inside it. So you sort of get 'everything' with it 🤯

I'm really loving MSoundFactory so far.

mono.audio•87 days ago

I'm obviously preaching to the converted then😁

If you haven't already check out the Modal Filter in MSF. Load some audio in to the 4 Structures to "sample" the harmonic relationships, it's so good.

monomoon.bsky.social•86 days ago

Yeah, the modal filter is amazing! Combined with all the frequency matching stuff in the EQ's... 😍

mortenmosgaard.dk•88 days ago

Thanks for the heads-up. I’ve been using the free pack for years, and wanted to upgrade my Arsenal. They have so many great and unique mix tools also.

trevordikes.bsky.social•88 days ago

Incredible plugins, the UI/UX experience can be overwhelming, but once past that they are wonderful.

monomoon.bsky.social•88 days ago

Yeah, I think the key for me was exploring them for fun (not as part of a job/project) and getting to understand just how deep the feature set is.

stephencshapiro.com•88 days ago

It’s because the UI, branding and marketing are awful.

monomoon.bsky.social•88 days ago

I disagree on the UI a little, it's heavily customisable and can be made to look good, plus it has a ton of functionality. Overall though I agree with you though and it's a shame cos there some enormously powerful features. It doesn't surprise me that Noisia used them so heavily.

stephencshapiro.com•88 days ago

Perfect example: I just bought Wavesfactory Trackspacer on sale. It does the thing I want it to do, and it's easy to use. In hindsight I'm pretty sure I could have gotten MSpectralDynamicsLE instead and gotten more functionality, but its design and marketing made it confusing and unapproachable.

monomoon.bsky.social•88 days ago

Yeah, there's a lot to be said for plugins that do that. I love pultec EQs and LA2A's etc. and my MidiVerb II is one of my favourite effects but I also love that with Melda I could have 4 separate reverbs operating on different bands of the mid-side stereo image and drive the sends via input levels.