Quantovox have released Melthaven, available for $2.99 with an optional in-app purchase that unlocks the Pro version.
Melthaven is a note-triggered phase shifter built to give guitarists and bassists organic, rhythmic movement that syncs to their playing, rather than a fixed LFO. It’s also highly suited for a number of synth basses and sounds with sharp attacks and fast decays.
Its analog-modeled OTA filters provide deep resonance and character, ranging from wah-like effects to complex, shifting formant textures or ever experimental tones, like bubbling or hard, slappy effects. For bright, harmonically dense signals – such as saturated or overdriven tones and synthetic sounds – the effect range also includes growls and glistening sweeps.
The effect was specially developed to respond to the frequency response and transient peaks of electric guitars and basses. Every pluck, pop, or pick attack re-triggers the phase sweep, effectively turning your rhythmic timing into the “engine” of the effect.
Because Melthaven relies on clear transients results will vary based on your source material. On signals with softened transients – such as pads or sounds undergoing heavy effects processing / layering – the effect can produce wild, unpredictable, and experimental responses. The dedicated smoothing feature can tame these re-triggers, yielding a flow that can feel organic and physical in its instability when operating beyond the plugin’s transient- focused comfort zone.
The plugin uses low-latency note detection paired with its own envelope generator and LFO, allowinc sculpting and even reshaping each note’s modulation profile or filter envelope. It even detects notes that hide under a consistent signal amplitude when using a traditional envelope follower.
Base features include:
- Built around a versatile preset from the Pro version to suit a wide variety of applications
- Controls: feedback & panoramic position, attack & hold timings, LFO Rate
- Smoothing: from envelope shaping to creating a weighted, fluid response, giving note sequences a sense of physical momentum
- Low-latency engine: preserves natural playing fee when used as a real-time effect
Pro version features include:
- Additional envelope parameters, several envelope flavors with pre-mapped control subsets
- Pro presets encompassing both strong and milder effects, including the quintessential rubber bass
- Enhanced stereo phaser modes & internal stereo re- imaging modulator (for formant-like effects and more)
- Vintage-style phaser feedback that can optionally build or ramp with each note onset (non-rampable in the base version
- Instant visual feedback via an audio scope with dual- channel envelopes overlaid on the input waveform
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