How do you know that this vst thread is very underrated if this was posted yesterday?

 

Few people actually use them. In fact, few people know how powerful they are.
Very roughly speaking: Melda plugins are for VSTs kind of what Reaper is for DAWs. But Reaper has the reputation that it deserves and quite some users. Not the case with MeldaProduction plugins.

Yeah, MSoundFactory is like the ultimate virtual instrument designer. Have you seen the videos from "Chandler Guitar" YTube channel? I salivate only by watching the possibilities . Same goes for Mxxx

Yeah, the thing is many features are hard to explain. This relates to what I said of few people knowing how powerful they are.

To get only a grasp of what they are capable, I suggest everyone interested to just look at this brief tut:

 

Yeah, I know him.
He is the guy that makes most, if not all the videos that are linked to the melda home page.
All the MSoundFactory Videos are from him.

He makes a good job of explaining that beast of a VSTi, with all the modules, and even a video per module, which is a hell lot of work, I guess.

The best thing about him is, that he sticks with melda VST's, and uploads more videos where he explains all the new and updated features, as soon as the update is out.

And thanks for the video of MAutodynamicEQ, I didn't know that this EQ is also a spectral domain plugin, I thought that it works more like the Pro Q-3 in dynamic EQ mode(Like Compression).
Going to check it out the next days!

 

I'll tell you what is an underated plugin. The Way Out Ware TimewArp 2600. It may not be a very good synthesizer (I know it's a classic and all, but I don't personally appreciate the workflow). But it is an INSANE effects processor, because you can run anything through it. The reverb alone sounds effing amazing.

 

Sonic Charge Permut8. It does a LOT of different things. Comes with a bunch of different "firmware" packs that basically change it into completely different plugins and almost all of them are really neat sound design and/or glitch tools.

It's a weird one because it isn't especially popular or well known, but whenever there's a thread like this there's at least one person who mentions it. It's got a small base of enthusiastic users.

 

If this was a piece of 70s hardware, universal audio would be all over this thing. Funny ain't it?
If you've got more little creative oddities, please share.

 

camel audio alchemy was underrated before apple bought it in 2015
and im sure its still most underrated plugin among us

apple likes raping camels eh ?

 

The problem with the melda plugins is their depth and complexity. While this can be a good thing when dealing with a very specific problem, it can also lead to getting lost in the possibilities during the mixing or production process and not getting any results at all.

 

I agree, not so much in getting lost in the possibilities (procrastination or option-paralysis happens with other plugins) but in the initial steep curve.
The way I see it, without having used them extensively yet, is that you must use several of them in order to get the best results.
Because they share a great deal of the workflow and possibilities, so it may be not worth it to learn only to use one or two.
It's not that they can't do common things easily but there're other good options for that. That being said, they're also very fast and light. I think they were the first ones to implement gpu-accelerated UI along with free-resizing.

 

because it says so right in the title.

 

Option paralysis... well, it's a very individual phenomenon. It depends entirely on the person. I honestly don't know which is more complex, the lexicon pcm96 or the melda mturboreverb... with both you can spend hours to build a new preset. Well, melda definitely has the more user-friendly interface. But apart from that...

 

ReaEQ
Great surgical EQ for editing tracks that are not directly in focus. Since the EQ is not de-cramped, it is especially suitable for mid-frequency material.
The display of phase shifts is also helpful and perfect for editing backings tracks.

PSP E27
The exact opposite of the ReaEQ. This EQ is perfect for bringing tracks into focus. The low band is quite solid, the mid band is definitely something special and the high band is just sweet. The drive is an absolute secret weapon. One of the most analog sounding saturators in the digital environment I know.

T-racks
So many good plugins. There are actually some no-nos among them, but all in all completely undervalued. Black76 is beside steinberg's version my favourite digital emulation of this compressor.

Compressor 260
This dbx160 emulation of yamaha hits the spot. They should have called this plugin SNAP, because that describes the sound perfectly.


FETpressor
Just one word: Wow!
I can't believe how rarely I see this plugin in foreign productions. It has found its place in every mix since I bought it and I really wouldn't want to miss it anymore.

 

Very true....... mspectradynamic has soothe feature since genesis

 

old warez URS 1975 Compressor
great on bus...low cpu

 

Does anyone know what happened to this dev?

 

What do you mean, what happened to him?
Nothing happened. Bobby Nathan is still in business.

 

It didn't seem like the plugins were being updated so I thought the site was live but support and developement finished.

 

URS never delivered constant updates, but only when it was absolutely necessary. bobby is - as far as I know - mainly musician and sound engineer, not plugin developer.

 

I remember several years ago searching for an easy but powerful synth and reading about this.

no comment Lol

I meant the "getting lost in the possibilities" thing. Related but not the same.

If we talk about free plugins ReaPlugs are incredible (BTW, MeldaProduction's too). Besides ReaEQ you have ReaXComp which is the only free multi-band compressor with an unlimited number of bands. That I know, that is.
And then ReaJs, impressive. Fast and light as f*ck. The syntax though... pure Reaper philosophy: fast without concessions.

 

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Agree with Sinus about PSP E27 and hany about Alchemy. but how many of you remember the FXs of Native Instruments Kore 2. There are still some expansions around that are really incredible. I must include Camel Space, Roger Linn Adrenalinn, Loomer Shift2 and the excellent STW Audio Reflex Pro. Good thread and no one is arguing or fighting.

 

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