Feature Requests

In order to facilitate the use of external controllers, I think it would be more practical to fix cc's or expose macros in a fixed way, rather than having to do the mapping every time you change presets. For example, in the AUM Midi controls menu, add a section dedicated to the 8 macros so that they can be linked to a button on a midi controller. Thank you :-)

Over the years Mela users have been asking for support for Wavetable oscillators. So, I'm creating a post to track that. Feel free to comment to add more details about the kinds of features you would like to see in such a module.

It would be great to have a module similar to MIDI Capture where the user can quickly sample audio anywhere in a processor chain in Mela. The user can then easily drag and drop the captured audio as a region/clip into their host for further tweaking.

Was making a track in Cubasis 3, and while trying to tamper with the Vibrato module via automation track, I noticed that its parameters aren't able to have automation tracks. I don't know if I'm just ignorant on this issue or if it's the app, but if it isn't me, I think it would be nice if we had the ability to automate the modular parameters with automation tracks outside of the program itself!

In addition to MIDI buses, Mela plug-ins provide MIDI I/O for sending and receiving MIDI to and from the hosts. While this covers most use cases, there are many interesting possibilities where the user might want to bypass the host and directly talk to hardware or virtual MIDI drivers. In some cases, use the virtual cables to send messages between different instances of Mela. Bonus feature: Mela could provide virtual drivers, e.g. Mela In/Out 1-4.

The Velocity module can transform MIDI note velocity by clamping to range, offsetting and randomising. But it can be made even more flexible and that flexibility can be applied to not just velocity but also aftertouch and other MIDI CC (or even note numbers). Samuel brought this up recently, and it seems one of the main uses of the velocity processors is remapping physical MIDI keyboard velocity response curves to match the way the user strikes the keys. We can take inspiration from Logic Pro's Velocity Processor and Midi Tools from the Atom 2 developer. The MIDI Source's module mapping curve can be used as a starting point and provide features such as: [min, max] range Offset Random Gain/Bias mapping

At the moment the Scale module either filters out the unselected keys or remaps them to the nearest selected key. This can be generalised so that each key can be mapped to any other key or be turned off. If it's off, it will be filtered out, otherwise remapped. If it's "remapped" to the same key it will just pass through.

This is a popular request so I'm adding it. (I thought it was already listed here, but I must have forgotten to post it here.)

While discussing the possibility of adding a selectable key and scale in MIDI Scale module, the idea of module presets came up. It would make sense to add a general feature to Mela, where each module can have a mini preset browser. Some modules will even have factory presets. The user will be able to save their own for any module. This feature makes even more sense when you consider complex modules like Compressor or Stereo Delay.

Mela users often look for the MIDI learn functionality to map preset parameters to their controllers. Currently, I recommend they use AUM as a host on iOS, as Mela exposes all of its parameters to hosts. They can also use MIDI Source to modulate parameters with MIDI CC. But that requires a lot of configuring and have to do it for each preset. MIDI Learn Module: Such a module could allow users to drag and drop parameters on it to quickly map incoming MIDI to preset parameters. The module can be configured so that it maps CCs to the 8 Perform View parameters. Once pinned lanes become a thing (where when you change presets pinned lanes don't get removed), the MIDI Learn module can be inserted on such a lane to make life easier. Combining the last 2 features, will allow the user to quickly audition presets while maintaining Perform View mapping to their controller.