Larry Shelby Posted Tuesday at 04:08 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:08 PM WishMaster Strings is a new instrument for MSoundFactory. Free for all MSoundFactory and MSoundFactoryLE users. More info and a free 15-day trial here $349 https://www.meldaproduction.com/MSoundFactory 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZincT Posted Tuesday at 07:27 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 07:27 PM (edited) MSoundFactory - The gift that keeps on giving! I also noticed labeled "NEW" String Machine, Chidori Pad, Choirs of Veritas, Constellation keys, Evil Alien Bass, Hellraiser Bass and probably some I missed! Edited Tuesday at 07:37 PM by ZincT 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy1 Posted Wednesday at 12:29 AM Share Posted Wednesday at 12:29 AM 8 hours ago, Larry Shelby said: WishMaster Strings is a new instrument for MSoundFactory. Free for all MSoundFactory and MSoundFactoryLE users. More info and a free 15-day trial here $349 https://www.meldaproduction.com/MSoundFactory I didn't see anything called this on their site. I not realized this is not a separate instrument but presets that show up in Sound Factory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Starship Krupa Posted Thursday at 05:58 AM Share Posted Thursday at 05:58 AM On 7/22/2025 at 5:29 PM, kitekrazy1 said: I didn't see anything called this on their site. I not realized this is not a separate instrument but presets that show up in Sound Factory. Not "presets" but an instrument created in the MSoundfactory framework. I think it's supposed to conceptually be like Kontakt. I found it after running MPluginmanager. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 905133 Posted Thursday at 09:45 AM Share Posted Thursday at 09:45 AM (edited) Just a footnote (as a fan of MSF): Wishmaster strings was added with version 17.04 along with some others. Recent additions include: 17.05: Added new instruments: Constellation keys, Chidori pad, Choirs of veritas, Evil alien bass, Hellriser bass, String machine. 17.04: Added new instruments : Hou5 pluck, Lo-fi vibes, Wishmaster strings. 17.03: Added new instruments: Hyperboy, Dark tech 17.02: Added MSoundFactory instrument Atmospace. 17.00: Added new instruments: Cyberpunk bass, Trap bass, Cyclicity, Ethereal keys, Alchemist whoosh, Organic scape 16.11: Added new instruments: Cosmosis, Cyber bear, Deep vibes, Frozen sparks, Magic dust, Mecha vox, Neon dolls, Solar flare, Sonic pulse, Sugar rush, Twisted wave On 7/22/2025 at 8:29 PM, kitekrazy1 said: I didn't see anything called this on their site. I not realized this is not a separate instrument but presets that show up in Sound Factory. Yup. It seems there is a difference between (1) instruments that are added to MSF itself and therefore listed as changes to the versions (such as above) and (2) instruments that are available / sold as add-ons, such as the Power_______ series, the Analog Empire______ series, Meldway Grand, etc. and are found in the MSOUNDFACTORY & MDRUMMER ADDONS tab of the MPluginManager. FYI: I took the instruments added to the versions of MSF (above) from the MCompleteBundle Change Log which doesn't list the instruments that are listed in the ADDONS tab of MPluginManager. I seem to recall using the ADDONS tab for some of the the instruments (such as Analog Empire Pads and Strings) separately from doing the PLUGINS update. Edited Thursday at 09:58 AM by User 905133 added FYI comments 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 905133 Posted Thursday at 10:46 AM Share Posted Thursday at 10:46 AM (edited) PS re: 17.05: MSoundFactory: Added over 200 Global Presets by sound designer XTD. XTD made available a large group of presets, not through the downloadable ONLINE EXCHANGE system, but by special arrangement directly to MSF. As such they show up categorized in XTD folders as GLOBAL PRESETS. They do not have GUIs and are not found as Devices--the instruments in the left-hand panel of MSF. They all start with X (as in X Extrabass, X Jazzy Guitar, etc.). From what I have seen, most (as in almost all I have checked) show as "NO INSTRUMENT LOADED" (since they don't have device GUIs) but can be edited if you have the full version of MSF. Some (as in very few of the ones I have checked) do have a controllable parameter (maybe two) exposed. For example, the global preset X Anew has a knob exposed for Delay (0% to 100%). Similarly, X Bazz 404 has knobs for both Saturation (0% to 100%) and Delay (0% to 100%). I assume that MSF LE owners (a) get the XTD Global Presets, (b) can play them, and (c) can adjust any parameters that have been made available by XTD, but (d) cannot access the deep structure of the preset via the EDIT mode. Maybe someone with MSF LE can confirm this? Edited Thursday at 10:49 AM by User 905133 edits 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted Thursday at 11:37 AM Share Posted Thursday at 11:37 AM I got the XTD presets when he posted them to the MeldaProduction forum and there are many useful ones. That they're presets and not instruments serves as a reminder that MSF comes with a ton of sounds that are just presets and have no fancy GUI associated with them. The online preset exchange has hundreds of them. These should not be neglected in favor of the fancy GUI instruments. There are some really good sounds among them. I don't know because I wasn't interested in it when it first came out; did MSF come with the GUI'd instruments from the start? MeldaProduction plug-ins didn't start getting those until several years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 905133 Posted Thursday at 02:28 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:28 PM (edited) Not sure if this has been announced yet, but it just showed up as an ADDON. Webpage says its an unpublished product. Looks like the price for purchase when available might be $11 (free for some of us). Teaser Video. Edited Thursday at 02:37 PM by User 905133 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starship Krupa Posted yesterday at 04:34 AM Share Posted yesterday at 04:34 AM I'm not the world's biggest fanboy for MSoundFactory, but it does have some whompin' pad sounds, and Wishmaster Strings is no exception. Right now I have something that sounds like a quartet of Queens Mary sitting a mile offshore and sounding their ships' whistles at the right pitches. Quite evocative. Since Cakewalk no longer allows me to create themes for the DAW, I'd love to start making my own "devices" for MeldaProduction FX, but whenever I've looked it's just too complicated. I get lost right away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User 905133 Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago 8 hours ago, Starship Krupa said: . . . I'd love to start making my own "devices" for MeldaProduction FX, but whenever I've looked it's just too complicated. I get lost right away. YUP! Over the years since I started taking the time to try to understand the deep structure of MSF, I have been gradually working on some custom ambient / textural wavetable-based presets (with realtime CC slider playable timbral changes). So far I have a number of variations and mental notes on possibilities for a user friendly device UI, but I find attempting to do the device graphics painfully insufferable. As you say "just too complicated." As we have discussed before, I come from having used modular synths (modules and patch cords), so even as arcane as I find Melda's modular selection and routing system, I can make the translation of how to choose modules and how to route things in boxes. But since the controls for the parameters are totally separate from the modules (and found in several different places), the workflow is a bit alien to me. I have yet to do a deep dive on those. Nevertheless, I appreciate MSF's architecture for the flexibility it offers to explore a host of tools and to design my own synth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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