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Mela 2 – Synth & FX by Nikolozi Pty Ltd - Released

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  • NeuMNeuM
    edited October 2021

    @Nikolozi said:

    @NeuM said:
    I’m sorry, but the UI is very cluttered looking. The rounded squares behind every touch area in the layout make the controls a total mess. This needs a major redesign at this point. It’s distracting and makes using this synth worse, not better.

    How did you make it look like that? Is that some accessibility mode that enables that?

    I just checked... Entirely my fault. I looked and the “Display & Text Size” and then “Button Shapes” was active under the “Accessibility” menu. I must’ve turned that on to address some other app issue and forgot about it. Apologies. My mistake!

  • NikoloziNikolozi

    @NeuM said:
    I just checked... Entirely my fault. I looked and the “Display & Text Size” and then “Button Shapes” was active under the “Accessibility” menu. I must’ve turned that on to address some other app issue and forgot about it. Apologies.

    Oh yep, no worries. I found that setting also, in the meantime. Mela uses iOS's standard buttons and I guess when that accessibility setting is enabled the system adds those shapes to all buttons. It does mess things up a bit. It's a good find. I'll see if I can improve the experience for those users that do use that functionality.

  • NeuMNeuM

    @Nikolozi said:

    @NeuM said:
    I just checked... Entirely my fault. I looked and the “Display & Text Size” and then “Button Shapes” was active under the “Accessibility” menu. I must’ve turned that on to address some other app issue and forgot about it. Apologies.

    Oh yep, no worries. I found that setting also, in the meantime. Mela uses iOS's standard buttons and I guess when that accessibility setting is enabled the system adds those shapes to all buttons. It does mess things up a bit. It's a good find. I'll see if I can improve the experience for those users that do use that functionality.

    Thanks!

  • shodd71shodd71

    @Nikolozi said:

    @shodd71 said:
    @Nikolozi by chance could we get a full view of all parameters in portrait mode on iPhone, it’s kinda a pain to have to turn my phone sideways just to access everything.

    I do plan to make the UI even more dynamic down the line. But so I can understand your use case better. Do you use it inside a host or in standalone mode? And would you be OK scrolling horizontally if modules aren't fully visible? (e.g. the oscillator module would only be half visible). Or do you imagine the oscillator module would relayout controls specifically for portrait mode?

    @Nikolozi yes I’m using in AUM, and scrolling from left to right would make things a lot easier, Accessing the compressor/limiter parameters would be my goal.

  • PoppadocrockPoppadocrock
    edited October 2021

    @Nikolozi said:
    I recommend waiting for at least iPadOS 15.1 release (only a week away). There was a weird MIDI / AUv3 bug in 15.0, looks like it was fixed in 15.1.

    Yea that’s why I was waiting. I thought 15.1 was out? Correct. Or no. Still on 14.8.

  • uncledaveuncledave

    @Poppadocrock said:

    @Nikolozi said:
    I recommend waiting for at least iPadOS 15.1 release (only a week away). There was a weird MIDI / AUv3 bug in 15.0, looks like it was fixed in 15.1.

    Yea that’s why I was waiting. I thought 15.1 was out? Correct. Or no. Still on 14.8.

    No. 15.0.1 came out, and 15.0.2 is current. These are just quickie bug fixes. Still waiting for 15.1.

  • NikoloziNikolozi

    @NeuM just found that setting > @shodd71 said:

    @Nikolozi said:

    @shodd71 said:
    @Nikolozi by chance could we get a full view of all parameters in portrait mode on iPhone, it’s kinda a pain to have to turn my phone sideways just to access everything.

    I do plan to make the UI even more dynamic down the line. But so I can understand your use case better. Do you use it inside a host or in standalone mode? And would you be OK scrolling horizontally if modules aren't fully visible? (e.g. the oscillator module would only be half visible). Or do you imagine the oscillator module would relayout controls specifically for portrait mode?

    @Nikolozi yes I’m using in AUM, and scrolling from left to right would make things a lot easier, Accessing the compressor/limiter parameters would be my goal.

    Cool, thanks for your feedback.

    Also, don't forget, you can assign the compressor parameters to the perform view, to access them in portrait. But, of course, you won't be able to see things like gain reduction and the transfer graph.

  • PoppadocrockPoppadocrock

    @uncledave said:

    @Poppadocrock said:

    @Nikolozi said:
    I recommend waiting for at least iPadOS 15.1 release (only a week away). There was a weird MIDI / AUv3 bug in 15.0, looks like it was fixed in 15.1.

    Yea that’s why I was waiting. I thought 15.1 was out? Correct. Or no. Still on 14.8.

    No. 15.0.1 came out, and 15.0.2 is current. These are just quickie bug fixes. Still waiting for 15.1.

    Gotcha that was why I was confused. Thanks.

  • PoppadocrockPoppadocrock

    @uncledave said:

    @Poppadocrock said:

    @Nikolozi said:
    I recommend waiting for at least iPadOS 15.1 release (only a week away). There was a weird MIDI / AUv3 bug in 15.0, looks like it was fixed in 15.1.

    Yea that’s why I was waiting. I thought 15.1 was out? Correct. Or no. Still on 14.8.

    No. 15.0.1 came out, and 15.0.2 is current. These are just quickie bug fixes. Still waiting for 15.1.

    I just updated to 15.1. Came out yesterday. Got my Mela 2 on. Had to go to accessibility and turn button shapes off to get the ui to show properly.

  • SamuSamu

    @Poppadocrock said:

    I just updated to 15.1. Came out yesterday. Got my Mela 2 on. Had to go to accessibility and turn button shapes off to get the ui to show properly.

    I guess that will be fixed in 2.3 or something :sunglasses:

  • NikoloziNikolozi

    @Poppadocrock said:
    I just updated to 15.1. Came out yesterday. Got my Mela 2 on. Had to go to accessibility and turn button shapes off to get the ui to show properly.

    Do you all have this setting enabled? May I know what's the main reason, so I can understand the need for it?

    @Samu said:
    I guess that will be fixed in 2.3 or something :sunglasses:

    TBH, not sure fix is possible. Looks like system decides to make buttons bigger and adds huge semi-transparent background to every button. This does 2 things: 1. breaks the Mela UI layout, controls get pushed around. 2. Makes everything look ugly. The second point is less important if this setting somehow helps the user.

    But either way, I'll investigate this issue further.

  • PoppadocrockPoppadocrock
    edited October 2021

    @Nikolozi its actually not as big deal you just need to know about it. It’s one button in settings and you’re goo. mine is fine. I do not recall ever switching that button on in settings, maybe the update did it. it looked really weird at first with opaque circles around each envelope and lfo, things overlapping, and when you selected an envelope or lfo the highlight that shows what one you selected was not lined up with the right one. So I clicked on lfo one but it looked like I was on amp envelope or something like that. However I read this thread saw what you advised @NeuM to do and it completely fixed the gui. The weird thing is I’ve never seen that setting before, I’ve used accessibility, but not that setting.

  • NikoloziNikolozi

    @Poppadocrock said:
    @Nikolozi its actually not as big deal you just need to know about it. It’s one button in settings and you’re goo. mine is fine. I do not recall ever switching that button on in settings, maybe the update did it. it looked really weird at first with opaque circles around each envelope and lfo, things overlapping, and when you selected an envelope or lfo the highlight that shows what one you selected was not lined up with the right one. So I clicked on lfo one but it looked like I was on amp envelope or something like that. However I read this thread saw what you advised @NeuM to do and it completely fixed the gui. The weird thing is I’ve never seen that setting before, I’ve used accessibility, but not that setting.

    Thanks, good to know.

    It does feel like I want to address this issue still. The easiest way is to not use the system buttons and just create custom views that are tapable items. But that may produce other accessibility issues for those users who rely on the system knowing which items are buttons. I'll have to look closely what accessibility features Apple changed in iOS 15 and see if I can do something about this.

  • PoppadocrockPoppadocrock

    @Nikolozi said:

    @Poppadocrock said:
    @Nikolozi its actually not as big deal you just need to know about it. It’s one button in settings and you’re goo. mine is fine. I do not recall ever switching that button on in settings, maybe the update did it. it looked really weird at first with opaque circles around each envelope and lfo, things overlapping, and when you selected an envelope or lfo the highlight that shows what one you selected was not lined up with the right one. So I clicked on lfo one but it looked like I was on amp envelope or something like that. However I read this thread saw what you advised @NeuM to do and it completely fixed the gui. The weird thing is I’ve never seen that setting before, I’ve used accessibility, but not that setting.

    Thanks, good to know.

    It does feel like I want to address this issue still. The easiest way is to not use the system buttons and just create custom views that are tapable items. But that may produce other accessibility issues for those users who rely on the system knowing which items are buttons. I'll have to look closely what accessibility features Apple changed in iOS 15 and see if I can do something about this.

    Yea kind of a weird one, good luck. Love the app, Love the update. Congratulations on the new version.

  • NikoloziNikolozi

    Yea kind of a weird one, good luck. Love the app, Love the update. Congratulations on the new version.

    Thanks 🙏 😊

  • Montreal_MusicMontreal_Music
    edited October 2021

    Mela Synth 1 as an efx in AUM can do really cool things! I tend to forget to use synths as efx.

    Don’t forget that if you have Mela 1 you have a better price for Mela 2. I can buy Mela 2 for 20$ or upgrade for 14$. If I upgrade, I guess that I will keep Mela 1?

  • NikoloziNikolozi

    @Montreal_Music said:
    Mela Synth 1 as an efx in AUM can do really cool things! I tend to forget to use synths as efx.

    That's right, Mela is not only a synth but a multi-fx AUv3 😊

    Don’t forget that if you have Mela 1 you have a better price for Mela 2. I can buy Mela 2 for 20$ or upgrade for 14$. If I upgrade, I guess that I will keep Mela 1?

    Correct, if you buy the upgrade bundle you get to keep and use both Mela 1 and Mela 2.

  • PoppadocrockPoppadocrock

    @Nikolozi is it possible to add a way to move presets into banks. a way to split up all the presets in my user folder into separate banks. I created banks to separate the patches shared on your site into their own individual folder, but I’m not sure the best way to move each patch over to the bank. Can you do this in files maybe? I’m hoping to Bulk move presets into a bank, or ability to move patches, instead of saving one at a time in the new bank. Thanks.

    Love the updates, and the app, compression was a great addition! Cheers mate.

  • NikoloziNikolozi

    @Poppadocrock said:
    @Nikolozi is it possible to add a way to move presets into banks. a way to split up all the presets in my user folder into separate banks. I created banks to separate the patches shared on your site into their own individual folder, but I’m not sure the best way to move each patch over to the bank. Can you do this in files maybe? I’m hoping to Bulk move presets into a bank, or ability to move patches, instead of saving one at a time in the new bank. Thanks.

    If I understand your problem correctly is that, you currently have all your imported presets in the User preset group and you want to move some of those into separate presets groups (that you've created). The best way to do that would be:

    1. Export all your presets in the User group to the Files app. This can be done by long pressing the User group and selecting "Export"
    2. In the Files app do all the grouping you want, in folders.
    3. Import contents of individual folders (in Files) into the preset groups you created in Mela.

    This should be much faster then dealing with individual presets. I'm being careful not to add too many file manipulation features inside Mela.

    Love the updates, and the app, compression was a great addition! Cheers mate.

    Thank you, great to hear! :love:

  • WhiteWhite

    Version 2.4 is out:

    Text Input:

    • Renamed the "Number Pad" menu item to "Enter Value", as the user is now able to enter values using either the Apple Pencil or a hardware keyboard.
    • The text input, for naming presets or entering decimal values for parameters, now has a new mode. If a hardware keyboard is connected to the iPad or the Apple Pencil is used for text entry, the text field dialog appears in the middle of the screen. Otherwise, the text field will appear above the virtual typing keyboard, as before.
    • Improved the look of the Text Input UI.
    • Disabled the Rename button when a preset with the same name already exists.
    • Fixed a bug where pressing the Enter button on the virtual keyboard didn't do anything.

    Settings:

    • Settings view has been fully rewritten and has a refreshed look.
    • Accessing settings inside the Mela or Mela FX audio unit no longer launches the Mela app.
    • You can change the color theme or email feedback from within the audio units' interface.
    • Added a TestFlight link for those users who want to actively participate in providing feedback during the Mela development process.

    User Interface State:

    • Selected module tabs will now be stored as part of the preset. Preselect the module tabs that you think are the most relevant for the preset before saving it.
    • Added document UI state restoration. When the host saves the audio units' states as part of a session, the visibility states of the Mela views will also be stored.
    • The User Guide view now retains the document position. So, now you can easily dismiss and present it multiple times, as you explore Mela and not worry about having to find the same section again in the user guide.
    • When the Preset Browser loads, it preselects the group that was last used.

    Other Changes:

    • Deleting groups and preset menu items now have a destructive action appearance.
    • To prevent accidental data loss, added a confirmation dialog when deleting a preset or group.
    • Fixed various bugs associated with deleting a preset group.
    • Updated the user guide.
    • Added new presets.
  • PoppadocrockPoppadocrock

    @Nikolozi said:

    @Poppadocrock said:
    @Nikolozi is it possible to add a way to move presets into banks. a way to split up all the presets in my user folder into separate banks. I created banks to separate the patches shared on your site into their own individual folder, but I’m not sure the best way to move each patch over to the bank. Can you do this in files maybe? I’m hoping to Bulk move presets into a bank, or ability to move patches, instead of saving one at a time in the new bank. Thanks.

    If I understand your problem correctly is that, you currently have all your imported presets in the User preset group and you want to move some of those into separate presets groups (that you've created). The best way to do that would be:

    1. Export all your presets in the User group to the Files app. This can be done by long pressing the User group and selecting "Export"
    2. In the Files app do all the grouping you want, in folders.
    3. Import contents of individual folders (in Files) into the preset groups you created in Mela.

    This should be much faster then dealing with individual presets. I'm being careful not to add too many file manipulation features inside Mela.

    Love the updates, and the app, compression was a great addition! Cheers mate.

    Thank you, great to hear! :love:

    That is a great idea, thank you very much.

  • PoppadocrockPoppadocrock

    New update! Mela 2 available for Mac. New presets, and some other good stuff/fixes.

  • SamuSamu

    @Poppadocrock said:
    New update! Mela 2 available for Mac. New presets, and some other good stuff/fixes.

    Did you get it for free?
    (It seems to suffer from the same 'glitch' as when an iPad app goes universal it looks like you have to pay for it on the iPhone).

    I'm still running the TestFlight version...

  • NikoloziNikolozi

    The update is free. I was just tweeting about this. If you purchased Mela on iOS already you won't be charged again. You will have to click "Buy Now" and once you confirm purchase, it will say the update is free. It's very frustrating that Apple hasn't fixed this issue yet. It's very confusing to the users.

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