Just red a long list of features and
prising comments of the coming Melodyne editor 2.0.
But one question - and with that all - was left unanswered:
does it do the (male) voice detection - especially lower "whisky"
singing tones with a lot of artefacts, better than the previous versions
of the Melodyne - and does it do this kind of voice pitch changing
more naturally?
All the other features than the singing voice detection and natural
pitch correction are (nice but) more or less irrelevant, when we are talking
a pitch correction tool as the Melodyne is.

Harry

Hello Harry,

well, Melodyne is much more than a pitch correction tool. Also, what's irrelevant to you might be relevant for others. We have a few users from non-Western cultures as well as users who compose contemporary music, and they will certainly appreciate the new scale functions, for example. Furthermore, I don't think that Melodyne's quality depends on the singer's blood alcohol level. Why shouldn't it work with your whiskey voice?

Anyway, we will have a trial version available, once the update is out. Feel free to put Melodyne editor 2 through its paces and see what it can do for you.

Claudio,

The core of my point as the old Molodyne Studio/Melodyne plugin user
was - and I´ve stated this so many times earlier - that in spite of the later
development towards the polyfonic pitch effecting multi-tool, I still see
the human voice THE "master league" of the signal detection/natural pitch
shifting genre.
The "whiskey" voice I mentioned in this case don´t refer to the use of alcohol
but the challenging type of low, often unstable singing voice with
a lot of artefacts (typical especially for inexperienced, bad singers
as e.g. I - unfortunately - am, but I believe that 80 % of the Melodyne
users are not-that-professional singers and we are plenty - a good market).
Therefore - undepending if you like it or not - the real quality of the
pitch correction tool is measured in how accurate it detects different
type - also "bad" singing voices - and how natural the pitch shifting sounds.
I don´t look down the Melodyne use as e.g. a instrument track correction
tool or a parallel instrument melody creating tool. But I think that it´s
easier to learn play the instrument part well for a bad player than to
sing the voice track well for a bad singer - therefore Melodyne´s
first priority should be a good human voice tool than a e.g. a polyfonic
instrument track manipulator.
My deepest wish is that the Celemony staff concentrate on their product
development just to this - human voice detection/correction - area,
and I encourage them to put all effort to do this.
And thank you - I will happily test the product - but I just commented the
launching text of the ver. 2.0 which won´t mention a word of this precious
focus area I chanted above.

Yours
Harry