When it comes to invisibly putting that which was out of tune into tune, many devotees feel that Melodyne has no peers. This is a brilliant idea and much more user-friendly than having to scroll past great screeds of text to find the relevant sections. You'll then see only those elements of the manual that relate to your specific circumstances. Two pop-ups labelled Edition and I'm Working With let you specify which of the four Melodyne variants you own, and whether you're working stand-alone or in a particular DAW. This has now been developed even further by having the documentation tailor itself to your specific use case. There are no major changes concerning the integration of Melodyne into your DAW of choice: if your host program supports the Audio Random Access (ARA) protocol, you can work with Melodyne within the arrange page, but the streamlined plug‑in developed for version 4 still works very well in other DAWs.Ī slightly unheralded aspect of the program that took a huge leap forward in version 4 was the online documentation.

There are still four editions, with Melodyne Studio at the top and Melodyne Essential the most affordable, and the program is still available both as a stand-alone application and as a native plug‑in. The basic architecture of the Melodyne product line is unchanged in version 5. In this review, I'll assume that you are familiar with the basic operation of Melodyne and with the main features of version 4: if you aren't, check out our review of that version in the February 2016 issue. More than four years on from version 4, Melodyne 5 also offers an impressive selection of new features. New versions of Melodyne don't come along that often, but when they do, they are usually worth the wait! Version 4 also brought forth some amazing tools for manipulating the tempo of entire multitracks. It remains one of very few programs that can perform pitch‑correction on polyphonic sources, and the Sound Editor introduced in Melodyne 4 provides a huge palette of resynthesis and processing possibilities. Of course, both packages are adept in both fields, but Melodyne has some unique capabilities. 'Auto-Tuning', by contrast, often suggests the use of pitch processing as a special effect. When producers talk of vocals as having been 'Melodyned', they are usually implying the use of non-invasive pitch‑correction.

Since its launch 20 years ago, Celemony's Melodyne has joined Antares' Auto-Tune in that realm of ubiquity where people use its name as a verb. In our exclusive review, we explore version 5's new superpowers. Note how it ignores the quiet, sharp section at the end of the note and positions it such that the first, loud section is centred.Īlthough it's now been around for two decades, Melodyne is still the stuff of science fiction. The long note here is a good example of Melodyne 5's new weighted pitch centre algorithm in action.

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