Melthaven
User's guide

Overview

Melthaven is a vintage phaser that uses note detection to re-trigger a configured modulation profile (envelope + LFO), responding to the rhythm of played notes receveived on its input.

While it offers multiple layers of real-time control, Melthaven operates primarily as an automatic effect; for full manual filter manipulation, please refer to RealPhase, a separate app.

The plugin houses a stereo phaser; therefore two envelopes are generated to drive the two phaser elements. These are shown in the audio scope in white (L) and olive green (R).

Placement

• Place it before creative effects and reverb
• Place it either before or after harmonic processing (e.g. overdrive)

Lite Edition notes

The Lite Edition gives access to the "Animated" preset, with a fewer number of controls than in the Pro Edition.

Circuits

Circuits represent complete configurations of phaser parameters. Most importantly, they provide different envelope flavors, but have hand-crafted defaults for many other parameters.

Circuit	Envelope	Description
Circuit 1 inverted		Envelope with an optional transient
Circuit 2 regular		Envelope with an optional transient
Circuit 3 inverted		Envelope with additional release shaping
Circuit 4 inverted		Oscillating tail w/ cutoff
Circuit 5 dipping		Oscillating tail with additional shaping
Circuit 6 dipping		Oscillating tail with additional shaping and cutoff
Circuit 7 regular		Oscillating tail with delay
Circuit 8 regular		Oscillating tail with hold
Circuit 9 inverted		Oscillating tail with hold
Circuit 10 regular		Oscillating tail with hold and cutoff

*In some circuits, decreasing the LFO depth makes the envelope converge to the midpoint of the asymmetric modulation to provide a more natural transition. When the LFO rate is set to minimum, this can be used as an additional tone control.