menu Home chevron_right
SCIENCE

Reverb Algorithms & Physical Modelling w/ Melda

Benn Jordan | October 26, 2025



Actual shower thought I had: “If you don’t like the sound of Melda’s plugins, it might actually be your fault.”
Support/Music/Socials: https://linktr.ee/BennJordan

Lots of Melda Productions content here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgqpgB1yVJkr6cd8LOEbwMQ

Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:07 – About Melda
4:18 – MTurboReverb Overview
12:04 – Editing algorithms
16:16 – Writing an algorithm
24:36 – MSoundFactory Overview
29:00 – Additive synthesis
31:00 – 128 Wavetables
33:05 – 8 OP FM
37:00 – I JUST WANT TO HEAR SOUNDS
39:38 – Karplus-Strong Synthesis
44:45 – Crazy Karplus Vacuum Pads
48:50 – Conclusions

#reverb #melda #vst #advancedproduction

Written by Benn Jordan

Comments

This post currently has 31 comments.

  3. @TheSpeenort

    October 26, 2025 at 11:58 am

    I had some bad experience with Melda, M-Audio, Kontact, Majix, and others from that parent company. It wouldn't be bad if all you used was Melda products.
    Kudos to Korg whose customer service rep guided me through a deep dive into the regedit of my computer to undo the damage done by Melda.

  4. @gabrielshepard

    October 26, 2025 at 11:58 am

    Those are some pretty wild plugins!!!

    Infinant possibilities just in the sound factory alone is well worth the price of admission. Like a whole music shops worth of a pile of gear and then some!!

  6. @dalenewton9697

    October 26, 2025 at 11:58 am

    Do you have any donation methods apart from Patreon? I use if I have to but they take unreasonable percentages of creators donations so I will always ask if creators have other methods first.

  8. @kniferideaudio

    October 26, 2025 at 11:58 am

    Huge Melda fan. The Free pack is 90% of anything anyone needs. The Phase matching plugin is great for matching multiple kick drums. Drum Strip is cool if you want ultra modern drum sounds. Analyzer is fantastic. All of them have fantastic monitoring/metering.

  11. @lofinic2022

    October 26, 2025 at 11:58 am

    It makes me sad that I couldn't possibly scratch the surface of music creating potential stored up in these plugins, I hope that I can come someway towards learning how these function and at least do them some kind of justice. Melda are just a phenom…..<3

  13. @cmdess

    October 26, 2025 at 11:58 am

    What a great way to sum up the whole scene with melda. I made a small 200 page guide to help this concept along but even that is overwhelming I suppose. There's a troubleshooting curve to learning and implementing the plugs because they are advanced. They have definitely gone to great lengths to try to simplify things through the "devices". They basically give you the significant plugs that are essential but they also give you a path to development and they are are very deep with features that don't exist in other platforms as a standard, like the modulators and crossovers.

  22. @daviHuggMonster

    October 26, 2025 at 11:58 am

    I discovered Melda and first tried the free stuff…now I subbed to get everything and they are huge, sadly as you said there is not a lot of channels covering Melda plugins 🙂

  23. @stevew2724

    October 26, 2025 at 11:58 am

    I looked at MTurboReverb before, but never did a deep dive until I started watching this video. It provides an excellent follow-along, hands-on exploration opportunity. Thanks!

  27. @SumFugaziSalt

    October 26, 2025 at 11:58 am

    I downloaded the free bundle 10 years or so ago, and over the last 5 years have purchased most of their plugs (when on sale) aside from their sound engines and synths which I look forward to checking out at some point… Every time I see a new plug in come out ( especially dynamics and mixing plug ins) …I take pause and ask…" What can this do, that I can't do with Melda's plug ins" and the answer more often than not…is nothing…While there are definitely very excellent niche plug ins and tools that work well for specific tasks …I haven't really needed to pick many others up, unless they do something really unique , like when Melodyne first came out for example. They don't seem to have much focus on midi related plug ins but for audio processing and effects they are definitely the most advanced multi band processing plug ins out there that Ive used…
    They have been on the forefront of multi band processing for years and that is what really drew my into their world. I haven't really gotten to learn a lot of their tools in depth ( M Turbo reverb is one I have not really delved deep into yet ) but, all their MB dynamics and mixing/mastering plugs are staples. For wild effects MXXX is absolutely bonkers too, most definitely the most insane effects engine ever …… I'm just learning how to modulate parameters within the plug in's and almost every device they make gives you a serious look under the hood which might be intimidating at first..however most can also be pretty straightforward too…its a deep universe for sure, especially when you start modulating and sidechaining .. the kind of tools I'll be growing into over the years no doubt.

    On a side note… If there was one audio processing plug in I'd love to see Melda create, it would be an Unmixing , spectral stereo deconstruction-Stem generator plug in, Like Trax 3 pro, ReGroover ect… except with more advanced controls and options for reshaping the deconstructed audio… I'm sure they could create a tool that could do that task really well!….wishful thinking

  28. @keres993

    October 26, 2025 at 11:58 am

    Melda's subscription model is extremely reasonable. At most you'll pay the cost of the bundle in $60/mo installments. I think this is incredibly fair.

  29. @troelsknudsen253

    October 26, 2025 at 11:58 am

    melda stuff is crazy powerfu with options to make some of the cleanest sounds possible with VSTs but it can soooometimes be hard to find musical applications. Mturboreverb is the best reverb hands down. closest thing to a software bricasti? i'd love to see you do a deep dive on morphing plugins and techniques, imo Mmorph is the most musical and flexible but its a hard technique to get to grips with regardless.

Comments are closed.

Related
He Cracked Every Layer of Reality… And Became a Target
Be Inspired | August 5, 2026
Related
This El Niño Is Starting to Look Like the One Scientists Feared
Fexl | August 5, 2026
Related
There Are Files Stored in This Video
Benn Jordan | August 3, 2026

This area can contain widgets, menus, shortcodes and custom content. You can manage it from the Customizer, in the Second layer section.

 

 

 

Go to album
  • play_circle_filled

    92.9 : The Torch

  • play_circle_filled

    AGGRO
    'Til Deaf Do Us Part...

  • play_circle_filled

    SLACK!
    The Music That Made Gen-X

  • play_circle_filled

    KUDZU
    The Northwoods' Alt-Country & Americana

  • play_circle_filled

    BOOZHOO
    Indigenous Radio

  • play_circle_filled

    THE FLOW
    The Northwoods' Hip Hop and R&B

play_arrow skip_previous skip_next volume_down
playlist_play