Nikolozi has updated Mela, available as a FREE download with optional in-app purchases.
What’s new in version 7.17:
- Frequency Offset
- The new Frequency Offset module adds a fixed frequency offset to the Pitch signal.
- The module can be used instead of Relative Pitch when you want two detuned oscillators to beat at the same rate across the keyboard, with the detuning in cents varying between notes.
- Range selects the maximum frequency offset: 1 Hz, 10 Hz, 100 Hz, 1 kHz, or 10 kHz.
- Offset sets the frequency offset within the selected Range, from -100% to +100%.
- The resulting frequency never falls below 0 Hz.
- Frequency Offset is a Pitch Processor module and part of Collection 5.
- Pitch Reader
- The new Pitch Reader module displays the Pitch signal as a MIDI note with a cents offset and as a frequency in hertz.
- In Poly mode, the readouts follow the last triggered Voice.
- Pitch Reader is a Visualiser module and part of Collection 5.
- User Guide
- Reorganised the Getting Started and User Guide chapters.
- Added a missing chapter to the User Guide that was previously only included in Getting Started.
- Added a chapter on the Patch Skill.
Mela is a modular music-making tool that scales with your needs. With its intuitive interface, you can seamlessly build fully custom polyphonic synthesisers, unique audio effects, and complex MIDI processors. Mela can run as a standalone app on iOS and macOS or as an AUv3 plug-in inside your favourite DAW such as AUM, Drambo, Logic Pro and many more.
In Mela, presets are constructed using modules arranged on lanes, where signals flowing through the lanes are processed by the modules. Audio and MIDI signals can be sent and received to and from the host or routed between lanes using internal buses. Modulator modules can target any module parameter on any lane. Lanes and modules are easily added, removed, or rearranged, allowing you to design presets as simple or complex as needed. Mela comes with 76 modules, with new ones added with every update. The following are some examples from different categories.
Mela can be loaded inside a host as one of the following plug-in types: Instrument, Audio Effect or MIDI Processor. The only difference is the number of audio and MIDI inputs and outputs. Otherwise, the features are identical, and a preset created in one type can be opened by another.
Modules are organised into collections. Collection 0 is free, allowing you to test out Mela’s features. Other collections can be purchased via in-app purchases. The following is a list of all modules.
- Collection 0: Amp Envelope, Arpeggiator, Audio In, Audio Out Group, LFO, Meter, MIDI Group, MIDI In, MIDI Meter MIDI Out, MIDI-to-Poly, Notepad, Overlap Remover, Poly-to-Mono, Relative Pitch, Stack, Stereo Delay, Transposer, VA Filter, VA Oscillator, Volume.
- Collection 1: Balance. Chord, Chorus. Compressor. Control Change, Distortion, DS Oscillator, Envelope Follower, Envelope Generator, Flanger, Glide, Level. MIDI Logger, MIDI Source, Noise, Note Echo, Note Length, Note Range, Note Stack, Phaser, Pitch Bend Random, Scale, Strummer, Velocity.
- Collection 2: Clipper, Comb Filter, DC Blocker, Degrader, EQ Band, Fixed Pitch, FM Operator, Macro, MIDI Capture, MIDI Channel, Oscilloscope, Pitch Oscilloscope, Pitch Ratio, Rectifier, Vibrato, Voice Activity, VPS Oscillator.
- Collection 3: All Pass. Audio-to-Mod. Band Pass. Correlation Digital Delay, Dual Pan, Euclid, Macro Button, Mid- Side, Multiply-Add, Noise Gate, Note Chance, Note Event, Pitch Follower, Reverb, Ring Mod, Simple LFO, Stereo Pan. Stereo Tool.
- Collection 4: Crossover, Delay, Effect, Feedback, Gain, Gain Computer, Groove, MIDI Delay, Note Hold, Note Pulse, Note-to-Pitch, One Pole, Phase Distortion, Pitch Ramp, Quantiser, Splitter, Vel-to-Amp.
- Collection 5: CC Modulator, Frequency Offset, Frequency Shifter, Limiter, Macro-8, MIDI Echo, Mod Oscilloscope, Mod Steps, Pitch-to-Amp, Pitch Reader, Slew, Time Scrub, Unison, XY
Mela is available to iOS and MacOS users (AUv3).
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