Celemony Melodyne?

Andy Greatrix · Post by **Andy Greatrix** » 25 Jan 2009 10:45 am

Has anyone used this product? If so, what are the pros and cons? Is it as good as they say it is?
thanks in advance,
-Andy

John Cipriano · Post by **John Cipriano** » 28 Jan 2009 12:24 am

I haven't used it but I've heard some talk about the direct note access. I think there's at least one demo video on youtube of that feature. It looks neat.

Dave Boothroyd · Post by **Dave Boothroyd** » 28 Jan 2009 1:28 am

I have the plug in RTAS version which I use inside ProTools.
It is an excellent pitch and timing correction program, much more versatile than Autotune, since it will give you a notated image of the track you are working on, and individual notes can be moved in pitch, time and changed in volume and duration.
It is even possible to copy a vocal line and change the notes to create a harmony vocal.
The next version will include Direct Note Access, which will allow you to work in the same way on polyphonic tracks, changing individual notes within a chord.
It is not available quite yet.
That is the upside.
However...
The latest version of ProTools includes Elastic Pitch functions.
PT 7.4 already has Elastic Time, so if you are planning to upgrade to ProTools 8, you may be getting all the functionality of Melodyne without any more expense.
As far as I know, the Elastic Pitch will only work on monophonic tracks. I have found the Elastic Time function to be absolutely superb, allowing not only quantisation of audio, but all of the functions normally found in loop creating programs such as Recycle- adjusting a sampled drum beat to play in a different style, tempo and groove for example.
In summary, Melodyne is excellent, but you might not need it.
Cheers
Dave

John Cipriano · Post by **John Cipriano** » 31 Jan 2009 11:35 pm

Direct note access will be nice for when I start making videos of my pedal steel playing