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[superabbit]

Somewhere between upgrading the MFreeFX bundle and achieving MCompleteness, I realized that I hadn’t even tried half of them. I decided to sit down with some material playing in loop mode on the DAW and go through all 32 (at the time) just to see what was available, browsing the factory presets.

Not surprisingly, I was amazed.

It’s easy to overlook them as being bread-and-butter workhorse stuff, or the lower end of the line, or whatever brain trick it is that tells me that because I first got them for free then paid less than the price of a single plug-in to upgrade them. Better not to overlook them, though, one of the hallmarks of MeldaProduction’s products is that I’m continually surprised at what’s below the surface, and the FreeFX Bundle is no exception.

The modulator ones (MFLanger, MPhaser, MTremolo, etc.) and the filters have some crazy options, and I’d only ever played with a comb filter in the form of a flanger or chorus effect (MComb is nuts).

I took MSpectralPan as a special filter effect until I was doing a remix of a friend’s track. It was fairly simple, stem-wise, but the drum track had used the drum machine’s internal panning to pan the instruments, including some percussion that I wanted to pan in a different way.

How do you zero in on a frequency range and pan only that range, leaving the rest alone? FreeFX Bundle to the rescue in the form of MSpectralPan. In a couple of minutes, problem solved.

Of course, to browse factory presets in a MeldaProduction processor, especially the ones that date back 15 years, is to encounter meaningless random phrase generated preset names, which can be frustrating.

If you do go through them, don’t neglect to download whatever’s available from the Preset Exchange and apply your favorite style and color schemes. If I couldn’t do my own color schemes, I’d be solidly in the camp that thinks the Melda UI is butt-ugly.

-Erik
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