Completely different software than Fruity Loops. Mellosoftron is a midi playable sampler that allows for editing recorded samplers, i.e. a software sampler/synthesizer. Fruity Loops is a grid-type loop player like Garage Band.

: Does anyone know if Mellosoftron works with a MPU-401 device, i sure can't get it to work.

: Sincerly Torben

I bought mellosoftron about 2 years ago using my hotbot email address to get the key.....since then hotbot has abruptly cancelled its email service, and my computer has suffered a virus and lost all data. In this loss of data I lost the key for mellosoftron, and when I emailed them (with my new email address) to please send me a new key they told me I could not get a key unless I was using the same email address....regardless of any personal information or credit card verification. this is completely ridiculous....
screw them is right

Rich, I sympathize. I too was on a search for some wavetables to generate sound in an internet appliance that just had a DMA unit to a DAC. I have an algorithm that will use just a few cycles of the sound to generate a poor man's midi (memory is of a premium in such devices). I tried to buy the wavetables from polyhedric. The guy, Tommy Anderberg wouldn't sell them to me because, in his opinion, I was ignorant of sound generation (which is not true). He couldn't fathom why someone might want to produce a less than perfect musical instrument. He insulted me, and when I informed him that based on what he said, he had little knowledge of Fourier analysis , he insulted me more. I was willing to offer him thousands of dollars for the rights to use his wavetables, and he refused my business because of his own ignorance and arrogance!!!! I've seen that on the Web he has some cool software out there, but I don't know if he wrote it himself or not, but the guy doesn't have a clue how to do business. I would not recommend buying anything from this company. They will treat you like an inferior maggot....not someone you want to do business with.
-Don

: I use melosofton in my studio, and it works great. I have also used GigaSampler which is a much higher end sampler. Giga sampler has a tighter responce, but it costs $700 +. Melosoftron is much easier to use, and since I track using a DAW, I can always slip a track back in time to correct the latency problem. Melosoftron is Great for Workstation based studios such as mine, but for Tape based tracking, I wouldn't recomend it (since you can't compensate for the Latency of the responce). For those that are not clear on what it does, Melosoftron allows you to take a wav file, and use it as an instrument. I normally use 44.1 Stereo files, and feed them back into my paris DAW via the SPDIF output of my AWE64 Gold, and I get HI-Quality tracking without the analog hissing. GigaSampler sounds a little better, but you have to have a dedicated 266+ MMX unit with High End hard drives, and 64+ Mb RAM. I run Melosoftron on the same unit as my PARIS Workstation (Which is convenient, because all of the MIDI routing is internal to the unit), and I have no problems. 200 MHz (Non MMX) with 96 Mb RAM.

: By the way the PARIS is a great workstation!!!

: Check out www.audio-illusions.com

For me, theres just no competition between the two, like most die-hard analogue synth people i guess i had a real dislike of samplers (and sample based music), soft samplers were just the same only worse!. i tried 'Melosoftron and was appalled at it's awkwardness, clunky design and generally, in my view incompetence.
I had no higher expectations of gigasampler before i tried it but its totally won me over!,
it may lack some polish in the graphic department by some peoples reckoning but the quality, latency and reliability are excellent.
(ps i don't work for or have any association with nemesys!).

I don't think that Mellosoftron even compares to Gigasampler or, for that matter Signum1100DX or Unity and probably not the forthcoming Reaktor from Native (if it sounds anything like Generator it should be wicked).

Mellosoftron is OK for playing back .wavs as instruments but it is really basic DirectX triggering. Just check out the editing, filtering effects etc of any of the above. They are in a different league!

You can get Gigasampler Lite for about £100 and it whips Mellosoftron. Trouble is it also tends to bugger up your PC and doesn't work with Cubase well at all. I reckon Unity is the biz.

That's my tuppence for what it's worth!

Neil

: I have a MIDI maker. I have the Hubi loopback device. However, in the MIDI settings window on Mellosoftron, I can't choose loopack as the port.

: Since I'm completely new to all this, could you tell me if this is right?

: 1. A WAV file saved on Mellosoftron must be converted to MIDI to use with a MIDI maker (sequencer). The loopback device makes this possible.

: 2. In order for this to work, loopback must be chosen as Mellosoftron's port, and as the MIDI maker's MIDI input device (or is there a way of making Mellosoftron the input device? I'm not given this option with my MIDI maker).

: In short, how does one get from Mellosoftron WAV to MIDI loop? Is there any resource for complete beginners, which gives a step-to-step account of the whole process?

: Thanks for your help,

: Mariano

I've not used Mellosoftron much with MIDI, but I can tell you a bit about what is happening with the loopback.

Mellosoftron works like this:

1) MIDI Messages are received.
2) Software checks channel and key mappings to determine which waveform to play.
3) Playing of .WAV file in concordance with patch settings commences.

By setting Mellosoftron's MIDI settings to corrospond with an external MIDI port, the program can receive MIDI messages from external devices, such as a Keyboard.
However, this does not allow one to use a sequencer within the <B>same computer</b> to play the Mellosoftron. Doing this requires a MIDI loopback device, in either software or hardware.
This devices functions as follows:

1) MIDI Messages are received.
2) MIDI Messages are rebroadcasted on another channel or cable network.

Thus, MIDI Messages flow from your sequencer to the Loopback, from the Loopback to Mellosoftron. Here, they are converted to actual sound.

Hope this answers your question.

: I have a question. The description says that Mellosoftron can turn any wave file into an instrument.
: Does that mean that it can take the wave form from the wave file and use that for the sound of the instrument in a sound module and then you can use your own midi file to play that instrument with whatever pitches and rhythms?

Rick, that is the general idea. The Mellosoftron acts as a virtual sampler, so wave files can be played at different pitches, and with different loop points, to simulate instruments. These can then be played via an external device or a MIDI file. However, the reality of setting up a patch (instrument) in any sampler is somewhat more complicated. Because pitch-shifting a waveform produces quality loss, because most instruments sound different at particular pitches, and because various attributes of the sound must be set for every key (attack, decay, loop points, etc), creating even a simple instrument that sounds good can be an arduous task. This is evident in any sampler, not just the Mellosoftron.

I believe that it is possible to buy sample CDs for real samplers and convert their data into Mellosoftron data files. Anyone tried this?

I am having the same problems so far, also on a P200.
Suggestions?