Melodee 0.1.0

Melodee 0.1.0 is the first full release of Melodee for the Akai MPC Sample: a 16-track groovebox that runs on the MPC in place of the stock app, from the microSD card.

Install

1. Download Melodee-MPC-Sample-v0.1.0.zip below.
2. Back up the card. If the card already has an autorun folder at its top level, move it somewhere safe.
3. Unzip the release. It holds one folder, autorun. Copy that folder to the top level of the card. Do not edit or rename anything inside it.
4. Put the card in the MPC and switch it on. The stock app starts first. A few seconds later Melodee starts.

Requires an MPC Sample on firmware 1.3.0.12. On any other firmware Melodee does not start and the stock app keeps running. Melodee changes nothing on the MPC itself: delete the autorun folder and the stock app runs as before.

New to Melodee? Read the quickstart, then the user guide. The guide has a chapter for users of the stock app.

What it does

• 16 tracks, one per pad: a kit, a sampled instrument, a VST instrument or a MIDI track.
• VST3 and VST2 plug-in host: instruments and effects from a Plugins folder on the card. 64-bit ARM Linux builds, Open MPC plug-ins, and 32-bit ARM plug-ins through a bridge.
• Kits of 128 pads with the stock Sample mode pages, plus Layers, Follow, Cloud and a kit filter. Chop, Sample Record, Audio Recall, Resample and 16 Levels.
• Sampled instruments: SFZ, MPC keygroup and drum programs, MPC expansions, EXS24, SoundFont and DecentSampler. Stock MPC Sample projects open too.
• Sequencing: 16 patterns per track, step sequencer, piano roll, parameter locks, ratchets, trig conditions, scenes and pattern chains.
• Song arrangement with WAV mixdown, stems and MIDI export.
• Looper with four tempo-synced loops.
• 41 effects, a six-slot chain on every track, four send buses, Knob FX and Pad FX.
• Sync: MIDI clock and MTC in and out, CV clock out.

Melodee synths

Melodee's own synths are free Open MPC plug-ins, released alongside this version: Melodee Poly, Melodee PD and Melodee Chip. Download each one's -mpc-sample.zip, unzip it and copy the plug-in folder inside into Plugins on the card.

Projects saved with 0.1.0-alpha.6 or earlier that used the built-in synths open with those tracks on the matching plug-in, as they sounded, once the plug-ins are in Plugins. FM6 and 909 tracks are gone: they open as empty tracks, with their notes kept.

Files

• Melodee-MPC-Sample-v0.1.0.zip: the autorun folder for the card. Its README and licences are inside, in autorun/melodee/.
• Melodee-MPC-Sample-v0.1.0.zip.sha256: its checksum.

Melodee is free software under the AGPL-3.0. Not affiliated with or endorsed by inMusic or Akai Professional.

Melodee v0.1.0-alpha.6

Melodee for the MPC Sample (firmware 1.3.0.12 only). Alpha: a crash or failed start puts the stock app back; only files on the card change.

Install: back up the microSD card, move any autorun folder at its top somewhere safe, then copy this zip's autorun folder to the top of the card and switch the MPC on. New to Melodee? The quickstart walks through it with screenshots.

New

• Boot animation: the Melodee logo fades in from left to right, then a night city fades in behind it before the app appears. Press any button or pad to skip it.

The logo and the backdrop (by Yasmine Elsen, smallcutekitty.net) are not covered by the AGPL; forks may keep them but may not put them in a public release (see licenses/THIRD_PARTY.md).

Melodee-MPC-Sample-v0.1.0-alpha.6.zip SHA-256: 4a999f05adf573d17fb87d3d9f869880d81f5939a1f060f3ee249da0edd9f1da

Melodee v0.1.0-alpha.5

Melodee for the MPC Sample (firmware 1.3.0.12 only). Alpha: a crash or failed start puts the stock app back; only files on the card change.

Install: back up the microSD card, move any autorun folder at its top somewhere safe, then copy this zip's autorun folder to the top of the card and switch the MPC on. New to Melodee? The quickstart walks through it with screenshots.

Highlights

• Multisampled instruments on a pad, streamed from the card: SFZ, MPC keygroup programs (.xpm, MPC 3 .xty) and now Logic EXS24 / Sampler instruments (.exs), their samples found as Logic finds them.
• MPC drum programs load as whole kits; MPC expansions (.xpn) install from the browser and play their previews.
• 16 Levels on an instrument's pad: Tune or Scale plays it in pitch, and − / + move the pads an octave.
• Plug-ins: VST3, VST2 and armv7 builds from the card's Plugins folder as PLUGIN tracks and effects.
• Four-track Looper, master compressor with a sidechain key, Song, Roll and Step Edit, MIDI tracks and SD card access.

Melodee-MPC-Sample-v0.1.0-alpha.5.zip SHA-256: 7cb98c18023c1bf9d4955c00a0df18730a9ce2be80f33c6e6e2dadcc0905e678