Are 40 Oriental Melodies for InstaComposer Worth $19.90?

Oriental Melodies for InstaComposer is a focused, well-priced expansion pack that does exactly one thing well: it hands InstaComposer users 40 Asian-inspired melodic presets they can drop straight into cinematic, ambient, or electronic tracks without hunting for inspiration. At $19.90, it's a legitimate shortcut, but only if you already own InstaComposer and understand what you're actually buying.

This isn't a standalone instrument. It's fuel for a machine you need to already have running.

The melodies themselves carry genuine cultural character. There's pentatonic movement, modal phrasing, and rhythmic tension that sits somewhere between a film score and a producer beat session. W. A. Production built these around Asian musical traditions, and you can hear it.

Who's this for? InstaComposer owners who keep staring at a blank MIDI editor when a project calls for something with Eastern flavour. If that's you, $19.90 is an easy yes. If you don't own InstaComposer, stop reading and go check out our expansion pack guide first.

What You're Actually Getting

Open the pack and you'll find 40 melodic presets formatted for W. A. Production's InstaComposer MIDI plugin. Load one, hit generate, and InstaComposer builds out a MIDI pattern using the preset's melodic DNA as its framework.

These are melody presets only. No bass patterns. No percussion layers.

The patterns pull from Asian musical traditions: pentatonic scales, modal intervals, and phrasing shapes that immediately read as cinematic rather than Western pop. They're built for variety across genres. Reviewers report using them across film scoring sessions, lo-fi beats, and darker electronic productions with equal success.

Compatibility runs across both InstaComposer 1 and InstaComposer 2. The catch comes with InstaComposer 2, which we'll cover under weaknesses. Royalty-free licensing covers commercial use, so whatever you build with these patterns is yours to sell.

The Good

We loaded Preset 12 into an InstaComposer 2 session routed through a Kontakt instrument loaded with an erhu and shakuhachi library. The generated MIDI came out with a rising phrase that naturally resolved across four bars. We didn't touch it. It went straight into the arrangement.

That's the whole value proposition working correctly.

Forty presets might sound thin until you remember InstaComposer generates variations on each one. You're not getting 40 static loops. You're getting 40 melodic frameworks with near-infinite MIDI variation potential.

The cultural authenticity here is satisfying in a way that generic "world music" presets rarely are. These patterns don't just slap a few pentatonic notes together and call it "Asian." The modal phrasing choices are thoughtful. Reviewers with 402 votes have landed on a 4.4/5 average, which for an expansion at this price point is a strong signal.

Commercial royalty-free status matters too. For sync composers or producers licensing beats, that's not a footnote. It's the whole deal.

The Not-So-Good

InstaComposer 2 users are going to hit a frustrating wall. The drum patterns included with this expansion weren't updated for InstaComposer 2's architecture. That means if you're on the newer version, you lose the percussive side of the arrangement workflow.

You're left with melody only. No rhythm foundation from within the pack.

That's annoying if you bought InstaComposer 2 expecting the full picture. You'll need to build drums elsewhere and sync them manually, which defeats some of the speed benefit these presets are supposed to deliver.

The second issue is dependency. There's zero standalone value here. No audio previews you can drop into a session, no standalone player. This is strictly a preset file format tied to one plugin. If InstaComposer ever gets discontinued or you switch workflows, this pack goes with it.

We'd also love to see more range across moods. Forty presets skewed toward similar modal feels can start to blur after the first dozen. Some brighter, more percussive melodic shapes would help.

Compared to the Alternatives

The closest comparison is W. A. Production's own Oriental Textures for ImPerfect, which leans into textural and atmospheric territory rather than melodic MIDI generation. If you're scoring ambient scenes and want sustained pads over generated melody, that's your route. These two products actually complement each other more than they compete.

Outside the W. A. Production ecosystem, you're looking at MIDI pack libraries like Ghosthack or Cymatics for Eastern-flavoured MIDI files. Those give you fixed patterns in a DAW-agnostic format. No plugin dependency, but also no generative variation.

For InstaComposer users specifically, there's no direct rival expansion focused on Oriental melody. That makes this pack the default recommendation by default of being the only option. Which isn't the same as it being brilliant. It's good. It earns its rating.

If you're still deciding whether expansion packs deliver real workflow value, our Maschine expansion pack deep-dive covers the broader argument.

Who Should Buy This

• ✅ Buy if you own InstaComposer and score cinematic or world-music-influenced content regularly
• ✅ Buy if you're an electronic producer who wants Eastern melodic textures without hiring a session musician or building scales from scratch
• ✅ Buy if you need commercially licensable patterns and $19.90 is genuinely low-risk spending for you
• ❌ Skip if you're on InstaComposer 2 and expecting full drum pattern integration. It isn't there.
• ❌ Skip if you don't already own InstaComposer. This pack is worthless without it.
• ❌ Skip if you want audio loops or standalone samples. This is MIDI generation fuel, nothing else.

Specs & Technical Details

Developer	W. A. Production
Price	$19.90
Plugin Format	InstaComposer Preset Format (requires InstaComposer VST/AU/AAX)
OS Support	Mac / Windows (via InstaComposer host)
Activation	N/A (preset files, no separate activation)
CPU Usage	Dependent on InstaComposer host plugin (Light)
Trial Available	No
Version Reviewed	N/A (preset pack, no version numbering)

Score Breakdown

Category	Score	Notes
Sound Quality	4.5/5	Modal phrasing and pentatonic structures carry genuine cultural character
Value for Money	4.5/5	40 generative frameworks at $19.90 is hard to argue with
Ease of Use	4.0/5	Dead simple inside InstaComposer; the plugin dependency is the only friction
Features	3.5/5	Melody-only scope and missing InstaComposer 2 drum updates limit the picture
CPU Efficiency	4.0/5	Preset files add no CPU overhead beyond InstaComposer itself
Overall	4.1/5	Solid, specific, and underrated for its niche, but only if InstaComposer is already in your signal chain

Alternatives to Consider

W. A. Production Oriental Textures for ImPerfect: If you work with ambient or textural film scoring more than melodic composition, Oriental Textures for ImPerfect targets sustained atmospheric sounds rather than generated melody. Different tool, different job.

Third-party MIDI packs (Ghosthack, Cymatics): Eastern-inspired MIDI file collections that drop straight into any DAW without plugin dependency. You lose the generative variation engine, but you gain portability. Worth knowing about if you're not locked into the InstaComposer ecosystem.

VPS Avenger Expansion Packs: For producers who want Eastern-flavoured presets tied to a more full-featured synth architecture, check what trance-focused Avenger expansions do for melodic variety. Different direction, but the comparison helps you understand what expansion format suits your workflow.

And if you're still deciding whether expansion packs deliver enough value to justify the spend at all, the synth expansion packs guide breaks down exactly when they're worth it and when they're not.

Oriental Melodies for InstaComposer earns its 4.4 user rating. The melodies are genuinely good. The price is low enough that the InstaComposer 2 drum pattern issue doesn't kill the deal for most buyers. But walk in clear-eyed: this is a melodic MIDI generation tool for one specific plugin, and it costs $19.90 to find out if these 40 patterns spark something in your sessions. If InstaComposer is already open on your screen, it probably will.