If you are interested in buying any melda plugins then please use the PB link below where you can find all the melda products via a quick search. Honestly its these things that really help the channel out and allow me to keep doing what I'm doing 🤓 pluginboutique.com/?a_aid=60a788bbb9644

@joechapman8208

2 жыл бұрын

I want to put in a word for MGranularMB. All their main workhorse types are excellent, EQs/compressors/reverbs etc, but this is something else when it comes to heavy sound design. You get some great suggestions presented like your EQ one, with custom GUIs, but then under Edit is where the real power of the plugin is waiting for you, and it's ridiculously powerful. You can get the wildest, most complex sounds going in literally seconds.

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

What is it? 🤓

@joechapman8208

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird Granular multiband. You can smear or scatter bits of the sound at different rates, either in a really dramatic way or just very subtly. There's individual pitch control, time and pitch randomisation and more. Not everyone is going to love it like I do, but it's great for getting some more complexity into synths, making silly spot effects, or just as the first stage of a sound design: to tease a sound apart a bit for further treatment with other plugins

@akagerhard

2 жыл бұрын

@@joechapman8208 that sounds great, Joe. Putting it on the list.

@joechapman8208

2 жыл бұрын

@@akagerhard I think you can demo anything Melda makes if you're curious. The presets with GUIs that it presents at first are a bit unfriendly in some cases, but they're also one-band so the more interesting results happen via your own hand in Edit mode, when you add multiple bands. I hope you like it!

Bravo Paul. Great work. Consider developing your own line of trustworthy plugins, and taking over this now-shady scene 💯

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Tbh I genuinely don't have the time or probably the skill to get even close to what the melda guys can do. It's much easier just jumping on their train haha 🤓

This is basically digital soldering!!! Well done 👏

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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Paul, you gem. Keep being legendary 💎

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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Will definitely buy your plugins!

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

That's if I ever decide to actually learn how to make plugins haha making melda plugins is wayyy easier

The plugin sounds great on that drum track/bus!

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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Wooah!! that EQ really rocks!

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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Paul Third Audio is going to take over the planet, calling it right now. "Serious software tools for the working engineer"

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

"officially rejected by the gearslutz community" 🤣

@JoeyFTL

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird I cannot imagine a more ringing endorsement

When it’s not only good but Paul Third good….well done mate!

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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Nice work!

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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I’m just here for the comedy 😎

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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this amazing thank you for sharing

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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I've been using tone boosters eq4 for years... saturation and comp on each band plus mid side per band.

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

I forgot to mention that the melda has m/s option as well. Ahh well

I’m glad you found a decent sponsor!

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Still not sponsored.. I wish it was cause I could do with the cash at the moment.. Times be tough 😢

@akagerhard

2 жыл бұрын

MELDA is (almost?) exclusively programmed by one guy, who sits in Prague. He knows what he's doing, but from what I've heard he's rather elitist and a combination of arrogant and ignorant when it comes to investing in something like a decent design, or a marketing collab. Maybe what I heard is wrong, you never know and I don't know him, so I really can't judge him.. but you're certainly not dealing with waves here. This is more of a one-man-show with focus on processing, not visuals or representation.

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Somebody else said that so I then asked about and was told melda is a team of about 5-6. Maybe like acustica it started off with 1 and then multiplied over time. I was told that we may be introduced at one point but I dunno if that would change anything. Maybe give me a better idea of how certain things work and stuff but for just now I'm just happy I managed to wangle MXXX1 haha

@akagerhard

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird November 2020 he still was the only programmer according to himself, so the team of 5-6 will probably be doing something else - unless a lot suddenly changed. But yes, getting MXXX for free is nice. Still, if you plan on giving Melda a real platform on your channel by showing off exactly how powerful it is (sounded like that's something you may be interested in) a collaboration would be a fair and natural step and benefitial for both parties. But you never know, there are quite some characters in this industry and in medium-sized companies such as MELDA this is especially true. Fingers crossed.. life is full of crazy "random" events and surprises. I think you could complement each other rather well. But what do I know.

Nice one Paul! Power tip... buy MXXX core when it's on for half price and install all the free Melda plugins - they should be fully functional within the MXXX wrapper (I have no way of testing this now... but I'm pretty sure they work). So learning the MXXX "build your own plugin with LEGO" can be experienced for $67). I've made a whole slew of "custom" plugins by backward engineering - from Split EQ to Seventh Heaven reverb!

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

I'd assume the free bundle works in mxxx BUT you need certain paid plugins to unlock certain categories in mxxx

@mixphantom0101

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird That's true... I bought the most useful plugins when they were half price - my absolute fave is SpectralDynamics!

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

I really need to try a lot more melda. Like really batter it

The real question is: would Greg Wells buy this just for the 2kHz knob alone?

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

It's the same 2khz so I don't see why not!!

@fullalbums5675

2 жыл бұрын

Greg Wells would say anything you pay him to say, he's basically a human opinion synthesizer

Great people at Melda

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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Maybe I missed it but I have never seen you use melda plugins and questioned why?? Glad to see you got some good stuff going with them.

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Tbh I had their free bundle and then I got them to send me munison & doubletrack and didn't really get out them what I wanted so I never really delved back into melda but I'm glad I did because I now have a crap ton of possibilities and now understand just how clever these guys are. It's mind blowing when you consider everything mxxx can do. Even the banks feature in the eq's is a game changer. You can do almost anything with melda if you put the time and work in

@JanSandahl

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird I got MSoundFactory little over a year ago and was blown away by finding almost EVERTYHING they have ever made in there. I kept asking myself "What's the catch?". There wasn't any. Well, I can't do everything in MXXX in MSoundFactory (yes, you read that right), as I would be able to if I owned the separate MXXX license. If I could, I would get it all and just be done with it. :) Second thing that struck me, and a realization that keeps deepening, was the awesome sound quality at the fundamental level. And, I believe it's still just one guy's work! MAutoDynamic is sooo good.

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Somebody said that to me and was told that I might get introduced to him and I was like... "no way its one guy that does all of this" 😅😅

@thecliqueshallsetyoufree8745

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird The thing with Melda stuff is that in the past all the parameters were laid out for you with nothing tweaked and if you aren't into tweaking, some of the plugins can be off-putting .Hey , why don't you go one step further and ask Voj to wrap your offering into a 'proper' plugin and see where it goes.

Mxxx is so interesting. I'd really like to see more videos on creating stuff with it. Like building your own channel strip etc.

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

The plan is to build my own custom manley massive passive combining the 3 big emulations (uad, acustica & pulsar) that's gonna take time though so maybe some point later in the year

@mendicantbias5211

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird how do you combine plugins???

@PaulThird

Жыл бұрын

You use the edit tab in mxxx and chain plugins from there

@matslarsson5988

7 ай бұрын

​@@mycosys?

My dudeeeeee 🤘🤘 You actually made a motown eq better than kit!!!!!

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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I know how to make a curve interactions more realistic - make a separate instance of eq for each band. In the original hardware each band is in parallel to the next one. it means each band is fed with the dry signal and then they're boosting the signal independently from each other.

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that. We didn't have time to play about with the UAD curve interactions as our demos had expired so we just copied kit but I do plan on revisiting the band interdependency thing

@eliashowe7115

2 жыл бұрын

​@@PaulThird You can left it as it is and just make each band in parallel, it should do the trick. Maag Eq is a similar to the Motown eq in a lot of ways btw, I was struggling to make my own clone of it until i found out about the parallel eq and how they made.

@akagerhard

2 жыл бұрын

Oh so the Motown EQ actually IS a fullblown parallel EQ? You got that on good authority? That's what the curve-interaction picture Paul posted of the UAD looked like to me. Instantly thought parallel EQ, but strangely enough I didn't find a single article or comment calling it a parallel EQ.

@eliashowe7115

2 жыл бұрын

@@akagerhard I've never tried the real Motown eq and never saw it's schematics. I came with that conclusion after seeing how the bands interact with each other in the UAD version, because i did my own copy of the maag eq once before and saw a similar behavior in the curve response.

Great!

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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You finally discovered MXXX! I was wondering when you’d get on that - I’ve been making custom plugin GUIs for it for the last year but it’s like noone ever talks about MXXX for some reason lol - hey shall I send you some of my custom devices? 🤓 p.s. they’re actually really good devices btw - I wouldn’t offer to send ‘em otherwise trust me 🤣

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah sure send them to paulthird.taysound@gmail.com

Melda are so f**king good, I just wish I was smart enough to make the most of the serious musical rocket science which Melda are....cool video.....

@PaulThird

18 күн бұрын

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Awesome stuff as usual Paul, would you consider sharing your preset ??? I don't think I can wrap my old head around building it myself. Cheers, Perry.

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Do you have mautodynamic eq or mxxx?

How does the Mo-city EQ comparing to the UAD Hitsville? Well done.

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

My uad demo expired before I got a chance to try out melda but it's unfortunately not UAD. It's really just a kit emulation with optional transformer style harmonics and saturation. Mines has no band interdependencies like uad so will be different. I could try and copy it but I'd need uad again.

hahaha I loved the giggle ... I was giggling as well.... (y)

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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I’m a heavy Melda user since years, great to see you have adopted my advise here in creating content for patreon with your own custom presets here. The melda platform is perfect for this, as people are afraid of their GUI and in depth programming and modulation capabilities. It’s a perfekt match for you creating presets on it’s platform. Keep it up mate!

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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@akagerhard

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think people are afraid of the GUI, the GUI is simply ugly. It looks a little something like people in 1950 imagined "futuristic" designs - uninspired is an understatement. Looks matter, because they inspire and entice to play around and turn a knob. People who think looks do not matter are ignorant - this is especially true in production. I think this customizable GUI-option is the smartest move Melda could do and it will probably blossom into something truely wonderful once the audio-community starts digging into it and provides the designs Melda is lacking.

way to go Paul, been using Melda MXXX1 for a while now, I have so many self made plugins, oh and Paul have you tried Metric Halo plugins

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

I've got it but never really found a use for it

Sounds Great the "Gordito Edition" !

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Wtf is a gordito

@bluematrix5001

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird 😁

Great Idea. Just love your stuff. Thought about translating your stuff to german. A lot of people would enjoy :)

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

A massive chunk of my audience is German but they all seem to undetstand me.. I think haha 😅

@gunnarschuettler

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird i got a community with lets say older germans who had more russian in their schooltime. Thinking about it. Love your channel man. Dont you ever stop ja! 😊

yoooo.....lol......this actually sound good on that drum buss

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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Paul - BC audio Patchwork 2.6 enables macros for hosting of not just melda but also any other VSTs so you can build your own custom chains and hide all so all you see is a few knobs on screen.

@ritchxmusic

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/jH9lqNp9gNe-oKQ.html

@PaulThird

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but so does waves free studio rack. It's the banks function in mxxx that allows you recreate almost anything. A macro within a macro. I couldn't recreate the kit motown exact with patchwork as like studio rack it doesn't allow you step each move

@ritchxmusic

Жыл бұрын

​@@PaulThird Good point. They plan on doing some mapping they said but nothing concrete yet. Rather then maybe switch to getting MXXX core instead then it's only 39 quid. I got a ton of Melda plugins already so I'll mess around with those!

@ritchxmusic

Жыл бұрын

​@@PaulThird Also if you're available for mix advice, please let me know how I should contact you. Thanks Paul - R

🔥❤️

@PaulThird

Жыл бұрын

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My grammy friends approve.

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Thank god haha 😜

Paul, how would you compare Melda MXXX vs Steinberg's Halion6?

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

I don't really know much about halion but looks more like a vst instrument version of MXXX which is kind of more like an overall plugin. You can do custom eq's, compressors, amp sims and tons of FX and stuff but as I said this is the first I've ever heard of halion so it's just first impressions

@mixphantom0101

2 жыл бұрын

Halion6 is more like Melda's "MSoundfactory".

using the royal "we" now, Paul? Loving your EQ, especially the addition of the auto-gain-function. Melda is not cheap and I really despise their GUIs, though it's pretty common consensus, that techniqually they are great. This little do-your-own-GUI thing is pretty killer though. What I do wonder: Can I fuse multiple of their plugins into one? I'll put it on my "want"-list, alas I don't think I'll get it anytime soon. CoreXXX would be my way, because 850 Bucks is way too much, considering I don't really NEED any of it. For me, it would be about the fun to build my own "plugins" like you did - and use the Paul Third Signature Edition Mo-City EQ of course. Arguably, if it lets me fuse their plugins it could be a time-saver though. It would then possibly upgrade from "want" to "need" - which has been known to set free rescources. PS: I noticed that Paul Third Signature Edition is damn close to PTSD when abbreviated

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. Mxxx let's you do whatever you want. You can fuse flangers, choruses, eq's, compressors etc etc into one plugin and assign them to their own buttons and switches give them fixed parameters or more limited functionality etc basically what waves studio rack does but with way more possibilities, more tweakability and a custom GUI to boot

@akagerhard

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird that's pretty damn powerful. The only thing that got me a bit worried is the 6% CPU. Is it additive or does it get less when you add multiple instances? Guess pmöy testing it will truely tell wether I like it. Just checked and they seem to have demos. Will demo it when I have a lot of time on my hands - because I think I'll probably need a while.. I'm not a quick learner, especially not with such things.

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Id assume it'd get heavier chaining more but that 6% was while I was screen recording so it's actually less in reality

Are you able to sell or give away plug-ins which you create from the Melda software?

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Tbh im just gonna make this and all my future melda creations free to channel and patreon members. To get them you'll have to invest in melda products so theres already a cost involved. Plus I don't want to be seen selling plugins or presets at this stage as im not coding anything, I'm just making my own melda mxxx1 presets so it's one of those where if you want them then you can support me via patreon or channel membership and you can get every preset I make on the channel whether it be kirchhoff, melda or something else

This needs to be a standalone plugin hahaha. "MO-CITY Paul Third Signature EQ".

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Haha 🤓

what does the Mojo-switch do? Sounded like it cut some mud which made the kick sound tighter and thus pointier. I didn't like what the saturation did in that example but I liked what the Mojo did. I just skipped through the video again to see what it does, but seems like you're not telling us :( *edit* or maybe something like the opposite of adding feedback for lack of a better word.

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

I did but I just realised that we renamed it to mojo. Mojo is the analog function in mautodynamic eq that has the transformer harmonic style behaviour (the one I showed first in doctors hammerstein) I wanted to call it trans but the engineer I worked on this with felt mojo was a better terminology as he felt we didn't want to get caught up in any falsifying behaviour as we don't actually know if melda meant for it to be transformer based harmonics

@akagerhard

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird this simply added harmonics? That's weird - my ears must be playing tricks on me. Thanks

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm pretty sure its just harmonics. Not really any change in frequency response but saying that it does interact with the eq moves so you get harmonic boosts related to the low bands so it'll be a combination of that as well

@akagerhard

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird ahh, now it makes sense. So it will add more harmonics where you boosted, less where you cutted? That's effectively "cutting" mud, relatively speaking, if you look at your EQ-moves. Even if it's just looking at the first 3 lower bands.

Where do I get a copy?

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately as its a preset it's not that easy. You'd have to own mautodynamic eq as well as mxxx core as a minimum

But the Plugins will always be under the MXXX platform right?

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

The preset with the gui will. the mautodynamic preset without the gui can be used just with mautodynamic eq. If you want the gui you need to use the mxxx platform

@bluematrix5001

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird Thanks Pauli

Paul you a plugin developer now ? lol 😅 time flies fast

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Nah.. Just piggybacking off of somebody else's genius 🤣

ok so can I buy the preset gui and all?

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

If you buy mautodynamic eq and mxxx core you should be able to. I won't be selling the preset though, it'll be free for patreon and channel members

@triplebeam23

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird you ever think of developing a plugin?

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Nah sounds like a lot of hassle, years of learning and it's obviously not as easy as many think to code plugins successfully all by yourself. Tbh it makes way more sense to use the tech of somebody who actually knows what they are doing instead of having to deal with all the issues devs have ie daw compatibility, bugs etc Just look at kits first plugin. The neve only worked on protools, aliased and had convolution artefacts. Took them months and months to fix it. Now we have their moQ which has minimal phase oversampling that causes that high end roll off we see and also hear via the pink noise nulls. They stated today that they intentionally used minimal phase oversampling instead of linear phase oversampling due to latency and cpu.. Where melda doesn't have those issues cause they know what they are doing. For me to make plugins I'd need to be able to do it as good as melda, fabien from Tokyo Dawn, Raymond from fuse audio labs, softube, UAD, TimP (convolution) etc etc That'd take me years upon years of testing and coding/dsp learning to even get close to their level. Plus Id rather be a mixing engineer than a coder so yeah.. Melda mxxx1 active presets will be as close you get to Paul Third plugins haha

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@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Remember to check out my autism channel if you want to learn more about my life 🤓🤓

I made my own hardware EQ by running audio through bent metal bars, stranded & coiled cables, metallic liquid and old PCB laced transformers. Worked like crap, let me tell you.

You did. You did make this. Make this you did. This made by you was.

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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I subscribed, where do I find your presets??

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Are you a channel or patreon member.. And have melda mxxx?

@elevateaudioengineering4892

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird I'm a new subscriber and I have Mxxx

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

If you join patreon or become a channel member the mxxx1 preset files are on there via a Google drive link

@elevateaudioengineering4892

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird I'M NO BUYING THAT. You're really selling your presets?? Is there anything you won't try to sell to your gullible followers?? You could have made the vid about the specifics of creating the preset, so they could could make it themselves. That would have been educational. But no, you'd rather bleed newbs for a couple measly $$ at every opportunity. SOD OFF WANKER!!!

Melda preset?

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Yup

It’s a cool plug-in but it’s buggy. The Sound is phenomenal but it crashes too much.

@PaulThird

Жыл бұрын

Interesting. Doesn't crash with me 🤔

@bigdap100

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird I owned 9 individual plugs before MXXX and they worked perfect. MXXX crashes on my 2016 and 2022 MacBook Pro.

@PaulThird

Жыл бұрын

Maybe an apple thing 🤷‍♂️

@bigdap100

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird lol, maybe so, but if I pay $500 for a plug-in I expect stable code on all platforms.

I think if you dig in MXXX can replace 90% of plugins you use.

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

I could imagine it taking out quite a few 🤓

@aKRo228

2 жыл бұрын

@@PaulThird indeed . Continue working with melda pls Paul. They are terrible at marketing and presenting! 😂

You are far too smart ;)

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

Correction.. Melda are far too smart.. They just make me look good 🤣

😲

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

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Oh man, they way you say GUI is gonna tick some people off. Just so I don't need to comment another time, it's pronounced as a single word (like gooey)

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

I know.. I said both 🤓

I'd pay not to do that.

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

If you have the money I suppose 🤓

Audio Legos

I got a cracked version

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@akagerhard

2 жыл бұрын

damn son. But I remember when I was very young and dumb I had a version of adobe audition as a DAW with a key of dubious origin. I think as a kid that's actually fine. If you can't afford it, you can't afford it - shouldn't stop you from following your dreams. Just make sure to be responsible and buy stuff once you can afford it and you're good in my book.

dude nobody cares about the Motown eq lol

@PaulThird

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the same at first but turns out it's way more than we think

@akagerhard

2 жыл бұрын

I always cared. Been using these frequencies with a dynamic Q for years. It's a great EQ for fast broad strokes. In my opinion it's simply a clever band-selection and the proportional Q doesn't hurt for usability! Also a good EQ to learn..