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Mela 6.1 Update – Introducing Collection 4
Hey all, just letting you all know about the Mela 6.1 update.
Collection 4
Mela's modular capabilities are expanded by introducing Collection 4 with powerful new modules for advanced sound design. The centrepiece is the Sublane module, enabling nested processing for flexible signal routing. Also included are the MIDI Delay and Note Pulse modules, adding temporal and rhythmic control to your MIDI. Modules like Delay and Feedback let you create custom multi-tap delays, comb filters, and physical modelling effects. To streamline your workflow, the Vel-to-Amp module maps MIDI velocity to amplitude, while the Note-to-Pitch module converts MIDI notes into a pitch signal. Every Mela 6.x update will add new modules to the collection. You only need to purchase it once.
Note that purchasing Collection 4 is completely optional. Unlock the user interfaces of new modules if you think they might be useful for your modular designs. Module Collections you own might be more than enough for your needs. My recommendation is to only purchase modules when you find yourself needing to use their UI.
Mela Classic vs Mela
With this update, the major version number has been dropped from the name—so instead of Mela 6, the app is now simply called Mela. This change helps avoid confusion, as some users mistakenly thought Mela 6 was a separate app rather than an update to Mela 5. To clarify: Mela 4, 5, and 6 were all the same App Store app, just with different version numbers in the name over time. Meanwhile, Mela 3, which is a separate App Store app, will be renamed to Mela Classic. Hopefully, this new naming system makes things clearer.
Sale
Enjoy the introductory sale—all Module Collections are 50% off until February 10th.
I'll add that 50% off sales are rare, I only offer it when a new Module Collection drops and Black Fridays 
Changelog
The full changelog is quite long, and couldn't even fit within Apple's 4000-character limit. So, I won't post it here, follow the link to read all the details: Changelog.
Tutorials
In these videos, I take a more experimental approach to tutorials—they are unscripted, but hopefully just as useful and organic. My goal is to streamline the process so I can create more videos like these. These tutorials are put together in a way that's helpful for both beginners and experienced Mela users. Let me know if you find them helpful and what you'd like to see next!
In the following video, I'm using Mela 6.1 to build a multi-tap delay effect with feedback, showcasing the new Delay and Feedback modules.
In the following video, I'm using Mela 6.1 to build a multi-tap MIDI delay effect, showcasing the new MIDI Delay module and the Scale module to lock all MIDI notes to a scale.
Grab Mela from the App Store.
As always, let me know if you have follow-up questions. Cheers 🙏
Comments
Modules show as 9.99 in my locale so thats inclusive 50% sale?
Thank you.
Correct, normally Modules Collections are $19.99 each.
@Nikolozi
Well your video did indeed help me to create something
Nice 😊
Bought the module .. Love it
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Are there any demos of the physical modelling side of this new pack around yet?
Jon Diercks made a cool preset during the beta phase experimenting with the new Feedback and Delay modules:
From: https://mela-feedback.nikolozi.com/feature-requests/p/delay-module
I plan to dig deeper at some point and create presets showing what's possible, and there probably will be other modules that will make things easier.
Oh my that’s a bit special🙏🙌
Yeah I'm not sure why such an powerful app keep flying so low. The nerds and tweakers should drool over this but they don't, why? We need the Mozaikers, the Drambonians and the MiRackers to start use and share all the possibilities. 😀
I'm not much of 'modular people' so I do struggle a bit, thus the need for more hands on presets, and also tutorials though I personally prefer to try to break down a well made preset/patch.
What is it that's different from the others you are thinking of? The UI is a bit off putting for me. Mainly in that everything looks so similar and with the long vertical scrolling it becomes a little confusing. Some color section coding might help. I wonder if he would be up for a UI change. Anyway, that just one thought I had. It's a brilliant piece of kit, just the above issue for me.
Congratulations on the new collection and update. I can’t wait to test it. 🤩
Maybe. To be clear though, I'm in your position - struggling. I'm not modular people so I can't point out what's wrong either.
I think you make a very strong case with the colors, I hadn't thought about it except I don't like the UI, never really clicked with it and I've been on Mela for long now (well, active hours aren't that high a number).
So, strong graphical separation between modules. Sounds like a winner idea to me even though it's now (as it's grown so big) gonna be a lot of work. Volunteers! please
I'm glad you feel that way
Any specifics that you struggle with? My goal with Mela is to make modular design approachable, so it can be used by beginners also. There's still a lot of work to be done to make it even more beginner-friendly. So if I know what beginners struggle with I try to optimise those areas to be more approachable.
That's a good idea, I'll try to do tutorial videos where rather than creating a preset from scratch I'll take a finished preset and discuss key ideas in it.
I’m not a modular person but I like the fact that you could use Mela for pads so huuuuge, with many layers. Great to make a veritable wall of sound.
And I really love the color schemes of the interface.
I can't speak how others feel about it. But my goal with it is to simplify modular design. I'm not a fan of wires, as things get out of control quickly. And I always enjoyed the clean Ableton / Bitwig / Phase Plant approach to their module design and signal flow. That's where Mela gets most of its inspiration from.
Interesting. Can you be more specific, would be very helpful. How does long vertically scrolling make it confusing? Because the whole preset doesn't fit on one screen? Would just a single lane with a long horizontal scrolling be better?
To be clear, the modules look the way they do because that's the kind of UI I love in music apps, clean and without fake embellishments. Having said that I'm constantly tweaking and trying to improve things. So, I'm always happy to hear criticism. Any specifics would be helpful, like you say everything looks similar, but to me, it's important that modules have a consistent look, so the UI always looks familiar to the user even if a module is new. So, if modules looked vastly different would that be helpful? Is this an eye-candy thing or would actually make it easier to use?
Colour is a bit of a complicated topic. I do want to introduce more colours but carefully. Again to make things consistent and so that new colours actually improve user experience rather than just for the sake of having many colours. So haven't come up with a good strategy for it just yet.
The second thing that makes it complicated is users can create custom themes at the moment, and if I change the colouring scheme it will break everyone's theme. And to my surprise users love creating themes. But if I can come up with a better colouring system for Mela, I'll figure out a solution for the artist themes.
Cheers for the feedback.
Thanks @Luxthor 🧡
That's great to hear 🧡
great update! besides sample-mangling, mela would be my secret island synth/plugin.
theres no quicker way for me if ihave a sound in mind i wanna create.
simple and powerfull. it can easily replace 90% of my synths
All great compliments. Thank you 🙏
And good to hear it lets you quickly create sounds you have in mind, as it is one of Mela's main goals.
@Nikolozi
I've mostly been editing patches up until I followed your excellent video on making a multitasking delay.
Since then I've made another fx app and soon going to start trying to make a synth from scratch.
After the suggestion and discussion above on color coding I can understand how changing things could mess up themes. Apologies if any of these are already possible as I really am beginning my journey with this app.
Here is an idea that may or may not be of use: a separate user controllable color bar at the beginning of each lane could help distinguish lanes when many are in use. Also some form of colored dots or blocks or something that could distinguish where outputs and inputs are connected on varies lanes - for example the using of the same buses on lanes could have some colour coding, so I can see very quickly where I'm sending them to or receiving them from.
Even with my short time using this app, I can tell its way easier than any other modular environment I've personally used. I find closing down certain modules on lanes and just keeping those I'm adjusting visable to be quite intuitive. When I get to using the macros I've seen in some examples, I'm sure complex set ups will be quite usable as most of the time I only need a hand full of settings easily adjustable. The suggestion of the colours are more for help during design really, as I can see some really complex designs on the horizon lol
Well Nikolozi, if you're happy with the UI you should stick to it. I personally never understood the Ableton (where I first noticed it) look. You call it as clean as can be but I disagree as it does look everything but clean to me.
I cannot come up with any remedy for this very different view. There's seem to have been and still are a few opposite camps on this (Abletons look)
Maybe colour code certain categories and their various divisions, that could be a not too big of a change if approached with caution😂
Otherwise I feel, Like I said before, I have not used the app enough to have valid insights.
Awesome, that's what I like to hear.
Agreed, I think there's value in user-definable colours. A way to assign colours, to modulators and those colours could appear as modulation rings around dials. And as you suggested assigning colours to I/O and buses could be great.
You are right, there is a group of people who love Ableton's look and the rest hate it
I guess, we all mean slightly different things by clean look. When you say it does look everything but clean, can you elaborate a bit more? I just want to get to the core of what some users might find confusing or unintuitive about the interface.
And so I have more context, can you give me examples of audio apps that you feel have a clean interface? That would be very helpful.
Do you mean, like, as an example, MIDI Processors could have a red tint and Audio Processors a blue tint?
Insights from all users are valid at all levels, as I said I want to ensure that Mela can be approachable for everyone.
If you end up exploring it a bit more later on, let me know what you found frustrating and what you found straightforward.
last update deleted my cubasis user presets.
i don't mind as i have them in mela as well.
just a hint.
somehow virsyn managed it to realtime mirror the in-apps presets with the cubasis preset file system.
don't know how he did it.
in user-definable colours would be a great addition to Mela.
I have no control over how Cubasia handles saving presets. But I wonder if it has something to do with the name change. i.e. In v6.0, it was called Mela 6 and now it's just Mela. So they may have internally created a Mela 6 folder. i.e. rather than using the app bundle ID (which can never change), they used the app name. But this is just speculation.
Is this just with Cubasis or do they have it with other DAWs?
Note, that Mela does support the system-wide sharing of User preset management, I don't think Cubasis does. This API. You can see it when using AUM for example, it asks you do you want to save in the plug-in or AUM. And you can see AUM fully mirrors Mela's User preset folder.
That's the official way Cubasis should be supporting preset sharing. This means the user can either use the host or plug-in to load, save or delete user presets.
Note that this feature only works with Mela's User preset group, if you create a custom preset group in Mela it won't be visible from the host. Unfortunately, the aforementioned Apple API doesn't have the ability to have more than one folder for user presets.
Is this just with Cubasis or do they have it with other DAWs?
regarding the preset sycn of virsyn?
just know about cubasis
Thanks for the info, if you notice your presets disappearing again in Cubasis please let me know.
I think it's the fact that scrolling vertically feels a bit like checking through a long weekly grocery list. If veggies, meat, dairy, etc all had a different look, color it would make for a simpler viewing process IMHO. Or even just an arbitrary color change throughout the vertical scroll so I know I have a filter in the yellow section. It's that sort of thing. Hopefully that makes sense. Great app. Just throwing the idea out there. I'll keep using regardless.