Sweet deal! You’ll have to let us know how you like it and what you do with it. From what I can tell it lets you use/create/tweak IRs to create a cabinet sim? As with all things Melda, there’s a learning curve.
If the Melda one can help with workflow, that would probably be its greatest benefit. On the side-topic of putting a free one together, you can use ReaVerb. The Poulin is still free IIRC, and if you happen to already have some specific guitar cab impulses on hand you’re in business. So there’s potentially a learning curve either way. Name your poison.
ReaperBlog tutorial for using ReaVerb as a guitar cab:
It’s sort of one of the major downsides to the synthedit/flowstone model. They are great ways of prototyping and coming up with ideas because you can make pretty much anything without in depth knowledge of dsp. This made it so people with good ideas could make their good ideas.
But when the world moves on, and the platform you know doesn’t, or is unreliable or disappears, you are kind of stuck. The options are to learn how to create your plugins in C++, which takes a lot of time to learn, or hire someone that can do it. Or, more commonly, just go do something else.