# Mela – AUv3: Synth, FX, MIDI

> Modular Music-Making

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1668299428](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1668299428)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1668299428`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Nikolozi Meladze
- **Category:** Music
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (78 ratings)
- **Version:** 7.14
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-25
- **First published:** 2023-05-10
- **Size:** 26 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mela-auv3-synth-fx-midi/id1668299428)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://nikolozi.com/apps/privacy-policy](https://nikolozi.com/apps/privacy-policy)

## Description

Mela is a scalable modular music tool that lets you design custom polyphonic synthesizers, effects, and MIDI processors. Build your signal flow with lanes, route audio and MIDI, and use modulators to target any parameter across modules. With 107+ modules and growing, Mela supports a wide range of sounds from tight leads to lush textures.

Operate as an AUv3 plug-in in your DAW (Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Cubasis, Drambo, AUM) or run it as a standalone app on iOS/macOS. It offers Instrument, Audio Effect, and MIDI Processor modes with the same features. Presets are grouped into collections (Collection 0 is free; others are paid one-time purchases). Over 200 presets demonstrate many creative possibilities. Learn more at nikolozi.com for guides, tutorials, and changelogs.

## Rankings

- #146,199 — Overall

## Review summary

Reviewers praise Mela as a cross-platform AUv3 instrument that also functions as a powerful audio/MIDI processor. They highlight its deep, modular sound design (sound, FX, MIDI) and the ability to patch in many ways, plus expressive performance controls and flexible routing. The universal license and Mac-to-iPad patch portability are repeatedly noted, as are ongoing updates and an engaged developer with a public roadmap. Overall, it’s seen as a distinctive, ambitious platform that rewards exploration beyond a traditional synth, while enabling quick ideas and robust sound design across devices.

### Pros

- Cross-platform compatibility and universal purchase with patch portability across iOS/iPadOS/macOS
- Deep, versatile sound design with modular architecture (sound, FX, MIDI)
- Expressive performance controls (breath input, precise MIDI modulation, low-latency smoothing)
- Rich feature set beyond a basic synth (FX, MIDI processing, utilities like oscilloscope, quantizer, EQ, clipper, flexible routing)
- Active development and community support (public roadmap, regular updates, engaged developer)

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1668299428)