Melda Productions

Their plugins are quite good. I have the paid for free bundle which is very useful. 

I have not used the drum instrument, but I rely on the Mastering Bundle for my music. Awesome stuff. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I just play with the settings until it sounds good... and it always does.

+1 Recommended.

MAutoAlign is super useful for quickly and easily correcting phase issues.

...but I rely on the Mastering Bundle for my music. Awesome stuff. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I just play with the settings until it sounds good... and it always does... 


Now, in a world of arrogance, pride and particularly todays' generation of excessive self-adulation, ya just gotta love a humble but sincere comment like this.  


[As a true Christian, humility is where it's at & what it's all about for me.] 


Well said!  


And if that isn't an endorsement among others here, what is?


I think I might have to check them out now myself, as well.

I like Meldaproductions effects, mixing, mastering and freebie vsts.  They have sales every now and then.  I do not, however, like their MDrummer.  It just is not right for what I do or need.  As mentioned by others above, take a look at this thread for what others say about MDrummer: http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.ashx?m=2770632  Save up for sales from ToonTrack or Platnium Samples or BFD or even Slate, but unless the MDrummer is really what you want to invest in, there are better alternatives around.

I've used all the freebies and have demoed just about everything in the melda catalog. My experience has been that some are better than others. Some have obtuse or awkward UIs, and some are overly CPU-hungry. Many lack basic features that you wonder how he could have overlooked.


Audio quality is consistently good, though. Reliability is high and the vendor is quick with bug fixes.


What I like best about meldaproductions' plugins is that some of them are simply unique. MMultiAnalyzer, for example. A few UI tweaks plus some CPU optimization and it could be the ultimate spectrum-arrangement tool. I'm surprised it's not better known. MDynamicEQ is a personal favorite, but it too suffers from a case of the CPU munchies. Among the freebies, MLimiter is unusual in that it's also a distortion plugin that gives you precise control over the added harmonics. He's got multi-band versions of everything, including reverbs, chorus, distortion and delays. I've never seen a multi-band autopanner anywhere else. The whole Creative Bundle is stuffed with odd effects you won't find anywhere else.


Some may not be completely unique, just unusual, but are less-expensive alternatives to better-known products from other companies. If you're into glitch-type gated effects, check out the "rhythmizer" plugs. Not my thing personally, but still fun to play with. 


There have been a few disappointments, plugins that sounded great on paper but didn't quite deliver. MAutoVolume, MStereoGenerator and MMultiBandTransient come to mind. Some are OK but just not as good as or priced higher than competing products. SPAN beats MAnalyzer, for example. I don't use any of the EQs besides MDynamicEQ, but then I've been spoiled by Pro-Q for too long.


I'd definitely recommend getting the free bundle and see if the UIs are to your liking. It's probably the best collection of freebies around. I use several of these, at least occasionally. MAutoPan is a lot of fun (although I like CableGuys' PanCake better). The phaser and flanger are quite versatile, offering the ability to create unusual modulation envelopes to make them sound distinctively different from garden-variety modulators. I really like the phaser on pads, strings and organ. Tempo-sync-able, too.


If you're fond of testing and experimentation like I am, you'll find uses for the noise generator and oscillator. You can, for example, automate the noise generator to create bursts that allow you to see exactly how a compressor is responding, and perhaps determine if some boutique compressor is really doing anything special. 


Demos are available for everything. Start downloading and have fun. But be aware that every meldaproductions product has hidden capabilities that aren't immediately obvious on first demo!

I have one Melda plug-in, the stereo-from-mono plug, and it's very good.
 
However, I had a recent experience that made me hesitate to acquire more.  Melda had a recent promo where one plug-in a day was half price for a month.  The second or third day of the sale, when I found out about it, had a plug I would have immdiately bought in the sale.
 
I went to the site (using IE9, a current, mainstream browser) and clicked on the link to get to the sale page.  Nothing happened.  I reported the problem to Melda, fully expecting they'd do what any reasonable vendor would do, which would be to find some way to treat a customer acting in good faith fairly in response to a problem on the vendor's end.  But the response I got was "tough sh*t, there are other ways to get to the sale page ... you should have clicked around until you found it".  Actually I had spent about 10 minutes trying to figure out a workaround and never did.
 
I ended up not buying anything.  If a developer blames the customer for their malfunctioning web page, will they do the same when their software doesn't work?