Celemony in the Media
What the press says about Melodyne
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- An extensive interview with Peter Neubäcker about the history and the future of Celemony and Melodyne: “Celemony wants to shape the recognition and the playback of music even more musically. The approach should move away from the signal level to a level of musicality.”
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- “A technical triumph”
- Excellence and Innovation Award
- “Melodyne remains an unrivalled technical and creative achievement, and with the introduction of DNA, a tool that is streets ahead of the tempo- and pitch-elastic tools now common to most DAWs, ... Melodyne editor will remain the de facto choice for anyone needing to go beyond the audio editing capabilities of their DAWs.”
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- “Melodyne editor kicks the doors wide open to a new generation of creative tools. Melodyne has always been and still is a powerful 'Fix it' kit, and through the addition of DNA technology it also becomes a creative toy.”
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- “A sensation in music electronics that happens very rarely these days.”
- “Even complex guitar recordings, the sound of a brass section or a woodwind ensemble were deciphered amazingly precisely by the DNA software.”
- Read the article (German)
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- “While Antares Auto-Tune has inspired plenty of musical garbage, as well as comedy gold (such as YouTube sensation Auto-Tune the News), Celemony Melodyne first came to us as a sort of Auto-Tune on growth hormones. It offered not only pitch correction, but also the editing of note length and timing within an audio file. It was a big step forward, and now, after more than a year of hype, Melodyne editor with Direct Note Access (DNA) takes the next step.”
- “it's a deep program with many uses. Its value may not be immediately apparent to some, while to many others it's all but priceless. You probably know where you fall on that that scale, but regardless, Melodyne editor is definitely a pacesetter in the world of audio manipulation.”
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- “A fascinating tool which is unparalleled in its genre. You might even want to discuss what is more remarkable: the ease of use and creative flow of work with audio which has been regarded as impossible until recently, or the technology of analysis itself.”
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- “With its polyphonic algorithm you can create new variations of your loops and audio recordings on your hard disk in no time. A unique, revolutionary tool with a variety of applications that comes for a very reasonable price.”
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- Interview with Peter Neubäcker (German)
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- “Remixers will have a world of new options for working with stems of songs if they're available, and greater flexibility to remix without stems.”
- “DNA's stated purpose is to open up each individual note within a chord so that you can edit its placement, note length and pitch, giving you the ability to construct virtually any chord you want out of the original. In my tests, Melodyne editor did this just about perfectly.”
- “If you have access to a song's stems, or you have a track where chords or even vocal harmonies are played back by themselves in the mix, it's easy to take control over the notes in those chords and make them do your bidding.”
- “DNA is a huge advantage and creative oasis for remixers and DJs looking to manipulate music in new ways.”
- “This is another fantastic tool for remixers and DJs, but don’t expect this to work across the board. With very dense mixes or when vocals are present, the results are less – or not at all – useful.”
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- “What would audio editing be without computers? Even pitch and length of notes can be edited after recording – of monophonic instruments. Until now. A program released recently does not stop at chords: Melodyne DNA.”
- “Amazing, how well this works.”
- Read the article (German)
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- 7-page cover story
- “Alternatives? You've got to be kidding!”
- “... what Celemony's Direct Note Access can already do is simply breathtaking, and represents a major turning point in the development of studio technology. What's more, Celemony could probably have named their price with a product as hot as this, so it's brilliant that they've kept the new technology in the same price range as the old. But it's not just DNA's power/pricing ratio that makes me slightly giddy, it's the potential wider ramifications too. How much might a tool like this change the music-creation process itself, and indeed the development of new styles of music?
... breathe into the bag Mike ... Nice and slow now...!”
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- “DNA is superbly useful for chord manipulation and melody changes.”
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- “The need for costly and tiring re-recording processes now is history. Second and third voices, even entire chord changes can be altered by a simple click of the mouse. Even if the program is operated by musically untrained personnel.”
- “Furthermore, Melodyne's Formant correction combined with Note shifting allows for individual special effects when it comes to manipulating voices or noises.”
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