Statements and interviews

 
“Melodyne fixes what’s wrong, but doesn’t mess with anything that’s right.”

Rob Arbittier
(Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston)

“Melodyne is magic.”

Thomas Bangalter
(Daft Punk)

“Melodyne helps me tweak out all my hip-hop beats. I can take a percussion hit and turn it into an oboe. Melodyne is transcendental. May the force be with you.”

Brain
(drummer/producer/engineer for Primus, Guns N’ Roses, Buckethead)

“I don’t like a piece of equipment doing the thinking for me. With Melodyne I can do it myself.”

Hans-Martin Buff
(Prince, Scorpions et al.)

“Over the course of a year I make quite a lot of random sounds and drones which are then heavily processed with effects and put away in a folder until we start recording our songs. Then Melodyne becomes extremely useful because I can re-tune the samples for use in a song where the sample key didn’t match the key of the song. I’m loving it, it makes things so easy.”

Barry Burns (keyboards and guitar for Mogwai)

“The record Scratch My Back is definitely improved by using Melodyne editor with DNA, and we are very happy with the result.”

Dickie Chappell
(Peter Gabriel's recording engineer at Real World Studios)

“I found Melodyne particularly useful on a vocal performance that needed both accurate tuning and lip-syncing to a visual that had been ramped up to double speed. The smooth processing can give me the kind of result I am proud to deliver!”

Tom Chichester-Clark (Feature Film Music Supervisor & Editor – Layer Cake, Strength & Honour, I Could Never Be Your Woman)

“Working with Robbie Williams, Melodyne allowed us to capture and use a fantastic one-take vocal performance which is basically what you’ll be hearing on the forth-coming record. The MelodyneBridge worked flawlessly in the Pro Tools environment.”

Brandon Christy
(producer – Robbie Williams/music for film and TV)

“Melodyne editor is a revolutionary tool for musicians and producers – my hat’s off to you guys!”

George Duke
(legendary keyboardist and producer, worked among others with Frank Zappa, Cannonball Adderley)

“Melodyne has given me the courage to break up with my reality, cheat on my imagination and make love to my dreams. Like a portal through space and time transcending me to an alternate universe where gravity does not exist! In this world my creativity can walk hand in hand with desire and give in to any temptation to try something new!”

Devine Evans (Mary J. Blige, Britney Spears, Outkast, Janai Malee et al)

"With the amplitude tool of Melodyne editor you effectively have a fader for every note within a recorded chord and you can get the balance exactly how you want it."

Tom Fuller
(Producer and songwriter for e.g. Tinchy Stryder, Dappy, Patrick Wolf)

“Melodyne is a wonderful piece of software. It allows me to do things I’d always dreamed of.”

Peter Gabriel

“Melodyne has proven to be invaluable to me in terms of speed and sound quality. I think people are a little quick to forget what a very clever and useful tool this is!”

Tim Gordine
(Robbie Robertson, Peter Bradley Adams, Syntax, Son Of Dave etc.)

“Audio is almost like MIDI now, and Melodyne editor has opened that door.”

Andy Gray
(Enter Shikari, Hard-fi, Hollywood film scores)

“For me as a child of the sampling age the Melodyne editor is definitely the tool I have been waiting for. Now I have even more possibilities to dive into the samples and alter them the way I want or to simply filter out elements that I don’t need. Thank you, Celemony!”

Martin Gretschmann
(Console, The Notwist, Acid Pauli, 13&God)

“Melodyne is a ‘must have’ product for any musician that wants to manipulate and tame recorded and sampled sounds, including loops. You can easily get vocals in tune, create chords from single notes and phrases, control dynamics, change ranges and more, without altering the original timbre of the sound, any sound!”
Herbie Hancock

"Melodyne still seems like a product from the witches' kitchen to me. I just can't get my head around this amazing functionality. It is almost obscene how easily I can manipulate a recording so substantially. I can salvage a flawed recording but also use organic material as the basis for creative sound design. Since that is one of my favorite pastimes, Melodyne is and will always be a prominent part of my standard arsenal of sound tools."

Reinhold Heil (film composer e.g. Cloud Atlas, The Perfume, Run Lola Run, producer for Nena, Spliff keyboarder)

“The fact that audio can now be treated almost like MIDI data makes a huge difference.”

Husky Hoskulds
(engineer, e.g. with Norah Jones and Tom Waits)

“Melodyne is the musical best friend to my recorded vocals. There is no other program I would trust in the matter of those all important tracks. Professional results, with unbelievable ease. No studio or producer or engineer should be without it!”

Robert Jason
(songwriter/producer e.g. for Alabama, Barry White, composer for the MTV Movie Awards)

“I love Melodyne! I use it almost exclusively for tuning (a job I have hated for 25 years) and it makes the process fun. Really.”

Gareth Jones
(Depeche Mode, Nick Cave et al.)

“I love how Melodyne handles a waveform with regards to both pitch and time, kinda makes tuning vocals fun again. I have also recently used it to tune samples to recorded tracks with great results, excellent for finding the perfect note for the bass drum sample!”

Vincent Jones
(Producer and keyboarder e.g for David Gahan, Sarah McLachlan, Cowboy Junkies)

“I love being able to see the gray areas, the overtones that are floating around in the ether of it all that can be turned on and off, moved, stacked and modeled. With Melodyne editor, a world of new sounds awaits!”

David Kahne
(Lana Del Rey, The Strokes, Tony Bennett, Paul McCartney, Cher, etc.)

"I always found it very easy to tune something, to change the timing or tempo. It is very intuitive and obvious to me how Melodyne works. You don’t really need to go anywhere near the manual."

Rob Kelly
(Strongroom Studios, AIR Studios)

“Melodyne has enormous creative potential to make new sounds and to manipulate audio to fit anything.”

Kipper
(Sting, Stevie Wonder, Mary J Blige, James Morrison)

“Melodyne is like a confidence builder.”

Wayne Kramer
(guitarist, composer for feature films and HBO)

“With DNA, worrying about that one note on the piano being out of tune is in the past! I can tune it and change the melody. Absolutely amazing!”

James Loughrey
(Page and Plant, Dave Gahan, Lamb, Ashante, Kool & the Gang et al)

“Melodyne gives you more flexibility than any other pitch correction program – for even the most difficult audio fix. But the best thing is, when it’s done, the new file integrates seamlessly into the track.”

Dr. Luke
(writer/producer for e.g. Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Pink, Avril Lavigne)

“With Melodyne you learn to elevate the art of the performance rather than to simply get the job done.”

Joseph Magee
(Supervising Music Mixer at Walt Disney)

“I couldn't do without Melodyne editor for my work as a producer. It holds the secret to seamless, musical vocal correction, and with the ground breaking DNA Direct Note Access, the sky's the limit!”

Jerry Meehan
(bassist, writer & producer for Robbie Williams)

“Melodyne has made my work better – plain and simple. In the short time I’ve been using it, I’ve made TV stars sound like singers, and singers sound like better singers! I’ve also used it to tune and quantize instrumental parts. And on top of everything, it’s quite easy to use. I’m amazed with this product.”

Jason T. Miller
(producer/writer/guitar player for e.g. Kanye West, Keyshia Cole)

“Melodyne gives me the power to move things around pretty drastically without hearing any sort of artifact.”

Mischke
(Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Spice Girls, Pussy Cat Dolls)

"Melodyne is a truly invaluable musical tool. It makes possible the impossible."

Sean Neff
(Train, Kelly Clarkson, Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban, Reba McEntire)

“Melodyne was already way ahead of the game, now with the release of the DNA technology it’s in its own league. It further expands the ability of the engineer to have much more creative input into the record and is a saviour for a mix engineer. You can enhance, improve or fix any performance, with no degradation to the sound. This tool is a must-have if you want to create, record or mix great music!”

Chris TEK O’Ryan (Grammy winning engineer, Rihanna, Usher, Jennifer Lopez)

“We’ve just completed our first session using Melodyne editor and we’re blown away by the DNA feature, it’s opened up a whole new world of creativity for us. DNA is like the audio equivalent of MIDI, it’s gonna take things to a new level!”

Pat Pardy
(Evil Nine et al)

“Melodyne is like a sequencer within the sequencer. It's full of power!”

Jason Phats
(Phats & Small)

“Melodyne is very easy to learn and very powerful. That’s pretty much what any software should be – ideal software.”

Ted Perlman
(Burt Bacharach)

“I enjoy the flexibility, transparency and the many ways in which Melodyne surprises us.”

A. R. Rahman
(number one film composer in India, Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire et al)

“Melodyne has changed my life for the better. It has revolutionized recording and I couldn’t live without it!”

Michael Raphael
(Disney producer, e.g. Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers)

“I am able to take any idea that the artist has and manipulate audio to reflect that. It is fantastic.”

Luis Resto
(keyboardist, co-producer of Eminem, “Lose Yourself” co-writer)

"After using Melodyne it doesn't feel like it's a processed track. It feels like the original track – just been taken to a good place."

John Reynolds
(Sinéad O’Connor, Damien Dempsey, David Byrne, Andrea Corr)

“Melodyne really can be treated like an instrument as opposed to just a ‘fix it’ plug-in for vocals.”

Carmen Rizzo
(worked e.g. with Pete Townshend, Coldplay, Alanis Morissette, Paul Oakenfold)

“Melodyne is really a great creative tool for the audio professional!”

Mike Rodriguez
(Trailer Park)

"For years I used another pitch correction software. Then I gave Melodyne a try. This was a total game changer for me. People always talk about the desert island piece of equipment – give me Melodyne and I’m all good!"

Bob Sandifer
(Mixes for e.g. Justin Bieber, CeeLo Green, Bone Crusher, Ying Yang Twins)

“Melodyne represents a major advance in music technology. You can tighten up tuning and timing problems really well and then even convert your song to play in a completely new weird micro-tuned scale!”

James Sanger
(U2, Madonna, Dido, Kylie Minogue, Brian Eno)

“Melodyne is always a revelation, letting you do things that you didn't think were possible. The Time Handles and Attack Speed Tool in version 2 keep the trend going.The ability to affect one aspect of the sound while leaving the rest completely alone makes me laugh out loud some times!”

Andrew Scheps (engineer/mixer for e.g. Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Adele, Johnny Cash – Photo: Brian Petersen)

“Nothing better than using Melodyne on a great singer to make a great vocal spectacular!”

David Schober
(Leonard Cohen, Fleetwood Mac, Ray Charles, Diana Ross, LL Cool J)

“I can’t believe this kind of technology exists!? I’m not the best singer in the world but Melodyne helps me get close to it!”

Gary Schutt
(producer, bassist/guitarist for Jeff Scott Soto)

“If you’ve captured an amazing performance that has 100 % of the emotion you’re looking for, but only 80-90 % of the pitch and time accuracy, Melodyne is your key to making it a keeper. It’s a necessary tool in the studio!”

Mike Shinoda
(Linkin Park)

“If you build in Melodyne right from the start, you’ll have great fun with it!”

Guy Sigsworth
(Madonna, Björk, Imogen Heap, Britney Spears)

“There’s nothing like fixing a vocal you absolutely love, without losing the original feeling that made you want to record it in the first place. Melodyne gives us that gift!”

Lisa Simmons & Flintstone
(Kelly Rowland, JoJo, Randy Crawford)

"In metal, bass players tend to hit the strings 10 to 15 cents sharp and I use Melodyne to pull some sections back into shape."

Andy Sneap
(Megadeth, Cradle of Filth, Machine Head)

“I’m trying to keep it as natural as possible, and Melodyne works great for that.”

Ali Staton
(engineer, programmer for Madonna)

“With Melodyne I can quickly create new cues out of existing material and this comes in very handy with my tight delivery schedule.”

Jan Stevens (Emmy nominated composer for Scrubs, Samantha Who)

“Melodyne allows me to gel a performance into the music very effectively so that those imperfections can breathe in the right places and maintain their individual character.”

Damian Taylor
(producer, programmer, engineer for Björk, Arcade Fire, The Prodigy, UNKLE and others)

“The software is a miracle!”

Pete Townshend
(The Who)

“Melodyne isn’t a piece of software – it is black magic!”

Midge Ure
(Ultravox)

“With Melodyne I know that there’s a fix at hand and the magic wand is close by should it be needed.”

Steve Williams
(Seal, Eric Clapton, Sting and more)

“I am blown away by Melodyne – it is the ‘one stop shop’ for all your audio tweakability needs!”

Kip Winger
(singer & bass player – e.g. Winger, Alice Cooper, Alan Parsons Project)