Oct 14

MIDI Hardware/Virtual Driver I/O Support

In addition to MIDI buses, Mela plug-ins provide MIDI I/O for sending and receiving MIDI to and from the hosts. While this covers most use cases, there are many interesting possibilities where the user might want to bypass the host and directly talk to hardware or virtual MIDI drivers. In some cases, use the virtual cables to send messages between different instances of Mela. It's also very useful for cases where the user might be running in a standalone mode and wants to use Mela to process MIDI and send it to another app or external hardware. Bonus feature: Mela could provide virtual drivers, e.g. Mela In/Out 1-4.

Pending

2 weeks ago

I’d also like to put a request in for this feature Nikolozi, I’d love to go all-Mela and still use some of my midi controllers. Any chance you’d be able to bump it up the priority list?

2 weeks ago

Just so I understand your use case, do you want to bypass the host and directly route MIDI to Mela? (i.e. not bother with routing your controller to your host first and then from the host to Mela) Which host do you use? Or did you mean you want to use Mela in standalone?

2 weeks ago

Yes exactly, I am talking specifically about using Mela in standalone mode.

2 weeks ago

Cool, good to know.

Aug 6, 2025

The feature could be very useful for Ableton Live users since Live doesn't yet support AUv3 MIDI plug-in types.