Why are people so AFRAID of MELDA plugins? – MeldaProduction Forum

There are other plugins which will help you get a great sound much faster than Melda plugins. And there a lot of sounds I still haven’t figured out how to reproduce with Melda plugins, especially when it comes to analog emulated saturation/filters. Maybe you can get the same sound from Melda, but I don’t know how. And the preset designers don’t know either or don’t care.

The Plugin Alliance, for example, stuff just sounds great out of the box and after turning a few knobs, I can make it sound even better. The devices are supposed to do the same for Melda, but I don’t get the same sounds from them. So for mixing, I barely use Melda anymore.

When I want to get more creative with sound design and modulation, I still use them, especially when I’m producing in Cubase. When I’m in Bitwig, I tend prefer to use the built-in modulators.

As for the GUI, I really like the normal GUI, but the easy screen GUI sucks. The images are usually ugly and don’t improve the usability in any way. The only plugin where I leave them on is MSoundFactory, because most Instruments are easier to figure out with the custom layout. Compared to Reaktor or Halion, they still are terrible.

MDrumStrip looks like a step in the right direction, GUI-wise, so I hope we’ll get more of that in the MMixingRevolution

In conclusion, I don’t think people are afraid of MeldaPlugins, they just have other tools that help them get a good result faster.