MELODY SAUCE QUICK SETUP GUIDES

In Live you simply load Melody Sauce as a VST plugin onto its own MIDI track, and then route the outgoing MIDI from this track to another software instrument track.

On a MIDI track select the Melody Sauce VST from the VST plugins in the track’s main browser:

The authorisation window will appear.  Enter your license/serial key to authorise Melody Sauce (this requires an internet connection).  See Authorisation Guide for more details.

On a second Instrument Track loaded with one of your favourite software instruments, find the “MIDI From” dropdown menu (click the “I-O” button if this isn’t displayed).  Change both “All Ins” and then also “Post FX” (immediately below) options in the two boxes to “Melody Sauce”:

Finally click the arm button to arm the track:

Make sure your project is playing and we recommend looping playback for at least 8 bars so you can hear the whole melody.

You are now ready to start generating melodies!

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Multiple Tracks:

If you want route Melody Sauce’s MIDI output to multiple instrument tracks at the same time, change the MIDI Monitor setting on the receiving instrument tracks from “Auto” to “In”.

You will need to set this back to “Auto” when you no longer want the instrument tracks to receive MIDI from Melody Sauce and instead receive MIDI from MIDI clips within your DAW.

In Logic Melody Sauce can be loaded as a MIDI FX. This allows both Melody Sauce and the software instrument it’s controlling to sit on the same track.

On an Instrument Track loaded with one of your favourite software instruments, select Melody Sauce in the MIDI FX slot.

The authorisation window will appear.  Enter your license/ serial key to authorise Melody Sauce (this requires an internet connection).  See Authorisation Guide for more details.

Make sure your project is playing and we recommend looping playback for at least 8 bars so you can hear the whole melody.

You are now ready to start generating melodies!

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In Cubase, all you need to do is load Melody Sauce as a VST plugin onto its own MIDI track, and then route the outgoing MIDI to another software instrument track.

Add an Instrument Track:

Then load Melody Sauce as a VST Instrument:

The authorisation window will appear.  Enter your license/serial key to authorise Melody Sauce (this requires an internet connection).  See Authorisation Guide for more details.

On a second Instrument Track loaded with one of your favourite software instruments, change the the MIDI input from “All MIDI Inputs” to “Melody Sauce - MIDI Out”:

Finally click “record enable” to arm the receiving instrument track:

Whilst continuing to highlight this receiving instrument track, click on Melody Sauce’s Edit Instrument window to open the plugin’s interface panel.  You need to have the receiving instrument track highlighted for the output to be activated:

Make sure your project is playing and we recommend looping playback for at least 8 bars so you can hear the whole melody.

You are now ready to start generating melodies!

In Cubase it’s also helpful to set the transport bar to “Return to Start Position on Stop” so that you can set playback and Melody Sauce to begin on the first beat of a bar.

In Studio One you simply load Melody Sauce as a VST plugin onto its own MIDI channel, and then route the outgoing MIDI from this channel to another channel with your chosen software instrument track.

In Studio One insert Melody Sauce VST from your Instruments (located in an EvaBeat folder) onto a new MIDI Instrument Track:

The authorisation window will appear.  Enter your license/serial key to authorise Melody Sauce (this requires an internet connection).  See Authorisation Guide for more details.

On a second Instrument Track loaded with one of your favourite software instruments, simply change the MIDI input from “All Inputs” to “Melody Sauce”:

Then finally make sure the track is armed.

Make sure your project is playing and we recommend looping playback for at least 8 bars so you can hear the whole melody.

You are now ready to start generating melodies!

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In Reaper you simply load Melody Sauce as a VST plugin onto its own MIDI track, and then route the outgoing MIDI from this track to another software instrument track.

On a MIDI track select the Melody Sauce VST to its own track.

The authorisation window will appear.  Enter your license/serial key to authorise Melody Sauce (this requires an internet connection).  See Authorisation Guide for more details.

On a second Instrument Track loaded with one of your favourite software instruments, click “Route”, click on “add new receive" and select “Melody Sauce”:

Make sure your project is playing and we recommend looping playback for at least 8 bars so you can hear the whole melody.

You are now ready to start generating melodies!

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