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@keremimo keremimo released this 12 Nov 14:20
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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.

Melodee screens on the MPC Sample

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.

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