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Hybrid
Includes both a Mac and Windows version of the program.
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Melodyne is a multi-track audio recording and editing application that lets you process and manipulate audio files in a revolutionary but musically intuitive way. Melodyne detects the individual notes of a recorded melody and lets you manipulate them - regardless of whether the source audio comprises vocals, solo instruments or percussion — as easily as if they were MIDI. Melodyne lets you arrange and combine existing audio files and refashion sounds using functions that are powerful and precise without ever losing sight of their musical purpose.
Melodyne is offered in two versions: Melodyne studio and Melodyne cre8. Melodyne cre8 offers a maximum of eight tracks and the playback and editing of mono files. Melodyne studio offers an unlimited number of tracks as well as the playback and editing of stereo files.
Melodyne streamlines music production, making it more efficient and more precise while offering power and flexibility. From subtle pitch correction to the creation of complex harmonies from simple melodies, from nudges and tweaks to time-stretching by as much as 1000 per cent, Melodyne integrates effortlessly into any production environment, simplifying step after step of the post production process, and making your work in the studio a whole lot easier than ever before.
Key features:
- the perfect tool for vocal pitch-correction and harmony creation
- mono pitch-shifting and time-stretching unsurpassed in audio quality
- automatic tempo recognition and editing – you can vary the tempo at will and even freeze sounds
- ideal remix tool, creative restructuring of melodies using copy&paste
- intuitive user interface
- integrates with host sequencer via MelodyneBridge or ReWire
- for Mac OS and Windows
PITCH SHIFTING AND TIME STRETCHING
You can perform time stretching, pitch shifting or formant correction without even thinking; just grab the notes already recognized by the software and move them around in pitch or time and everything will sound as you would musically expect it to. Or you can move the tempo slider during playback, and you will hear the music accelerate or slow down without this in any way affecting the pitch.
Detecting notes from your recording
You can record single melody tracks like with any other hard disk recording software, or you can import them into your arrangement as audio files. It is not essential that the timing, pitch or musical scale of imported melodies match those of your current arrangement — it's easy for Melodyne to adapt them.
If you want to edit a melody, just double-click on it and after a short pause (while the software detects the individual notes) the editor will open. The notes appear in their actual positions in terms of time and pitch, and you will also see the exact phrasing of a melody line.
Now you can simply grab a note and move it to any pitch or time position you like. The transition between notes is handled at all times in a way that makes musical sense, and automatic formant correction always makes the moved note sound the way you expect it to.
Change your music while it plays
All changes can be made on the fly even while the melody is running — you will hear your changes take effect as soon as you move the notes. You can also make the moved notes snap to the nearest semitone or to a defined musical scale, or even define a new scale for the entire melody or selected notes by clicking the scale selector buttons on the left hand side of the editor:
With all changes, the phrasing inside a note, e.g. vibrato, will be kept — but you can also edit the phrasing by reducing or adding vibrato or changing the transition curve between notes. Extreme reduction would result in the unnatural ‘straight pitch’ that is a marked feature of many recent pop songs.
Of course, you could copy and paste notes or melody lines to arrange them as a harmony choir. Formants can be adapted to emulate male or female voices and even convert a trumpet into a trombone.
Timing changes on the fly
It’s just as easy to change the timing of a note as its pitch: just grab it and move it to the desired position. Depending on which tool you choose, the notes following the moved note will be shortened or moved backwards or forwards in time.
If you time-stretch a note, it isn’t stretched uniformly after the crude fashion of rival software; instead, the attack remains unchanged, so consonants at the beginning of words do not lose their intelligibility and the characteristic starting transients and incidental noise that play a vital part in helping us to identify different instruments are preserved —the sound of the fingernails on a plucked string, for example.
Should you wish to, of course, you could change only the starting transients and not the note itself, to change staccato to legato or vice versa.
If you stretch a whole melody, the same applies: rather than performing simple time stretching, it is for the most part only the tonal phase of notes and syllables that is stretched, whilst the starting transients retain their character. For speech, Melodyne will automatically separate the syllables to make time changes consistent. This makes synchronization very easy.
The playing speed of an arrangement in Melodyne is completely arbitrary. You could take a short snippet of music and slow it to a hundredth of its original speed – without changing its original pitch, of course — and in this way discover the latent microstructure of the musical events.
ARRANGING & REMIXING
In Melodyne's arrange window, all your melodies are displayed with all their notes. So you can see at a glance what’s on a track without even listening. Here you can move tracks around, and copy or loop melodies. You can save detected melodies for re-use in another arrangement. Remember, it’s easy to slot a new melody into an arrangement – even one with a different tempo, tonality or pitch.
Melody Manager
Melody Manager helps with the organization of audio files, offering auditioning functions and a variety of display options - from notes to the characteristic Melodyne blobs.
What makes the Melody Manager a particularly spontaneous creative tool is the ability to drag & drop files (or parts of files) to the application, which gives you instant access to Melodyne's unique range of functions. In this way, musicians, producers and sound engineers can create whole melodies from disparate phrases, new tunes from old, entire guitar solos from a handful of nifty licks.
Demo sample library
All Melodyne packages come with the CD ROM 'Ueberschall Sample Preview', which contains over 130 MB of Melodyneready audio material. The first class instrumental phrases, loops and vocal licks can be loaded directly using the Melody Manager.
MIDI CONTROL & AUDIO-TO-MIDI
Melodyne can be remotely controlled via MIDI; detected melodies can be played back via MIDI.
Most of Melodyne’s parameters can be remotely controlled and automated via MIDI. This allows you to make effortless use of Melodyne’s power using the controller you’re most comfortable with.
MIDI playback of your melodies
Detected melodies can be played back via MIDI, including all the controller data needed for an expressive performance – volume, pitch bend etc. The tone generation could be supplied by an external MIDI module or else by VST instruments hosted by Melodyne. This opens a myriad of new possibilities for creative sound design. You can even use the phrasing from your vocal track to breathe new life into your synth! Naturally you can export your MIDI data as well.
INTEGRATION
Melodyne adapts to your production environment
Thanks to the Melodyne Bridge, Melodyne not only operates in stand-alone mode; it will also function within your existing recording environment, bringing a fantastic array of new possibilities to stimulate your creativity and streamline your work. Whether you’re using the Mac OS or Windows, Melodyne comes to you. You don’t have to meet it halfway. Melodyne works with
- Apple Logic
- Steinberg Cubase and Nuendo
- Digidesign Pro Tools
- Cakewalk Sonar
- Ableton Live
- MotU Digital Performer
- Propellerhead Reason
and many other applications...
SPECIFICATIONS
Melodyne is a stand-alone application running under Mac and Windows. Melodyne supports SoundManager, CoreAudio, ASIO2 and (under Mac OS X) Digidesign's Direct-I/O. You can integrate Melodyne into your existing production environment using the Melodyne-Bridge supplied. This supports the plug-in formats VST, AudioUnit, RTAS and DirectX. Melodyne also supports ReWire. Melodyne reads and writes a large number of audio formats (WAV, AIFF, SD2, SND, AU) in up to 32-bit / 192 kHz resolution.
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Mac
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- PII 400 or better
- 512 MB RAM
- Windows SE, ME, 2000 or XP
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- G3
- 512 MB RAM
- Mac OS X 10.2.6 / Mac OS 9.1 or later
Under Mac OS 9 Melodyne has a limited function set (no synchronisation via MelodyneBridge, no MIDI support).
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