Your Melodyne 5 essential

Welcome! As a user of Cubase, you appreciate the value of high-quality tools for music production. That’s why we’re delighted to be putting just such a tool in your hands: Melodyne!

Many producers consider Melodyne not only unrivalled in terms of musicality and the naturalness of its sound but also indispensable – especially when it comes to correcting intonation and editing vocals. Melodyne 5 essential opens up these possibilities to you and helps you make your productions even better.

You received from Steinberg a serial number for Melodyne 5 essential that you can register on this page. Once you have registered, you will get your installation program.

By the way, if you already have Melodyne, you can use the Melodyne essential serial number as a coupon in our web shop when purchasing an update or upgrade. Find out more about this here.

Melodyne 5 essential in Cubase

Just select and edit. Thanks to ARA, Melodyne 5 essential is perfectly integrated into Cubase, showing your recordings and samples in a very clear and easily understood way and letting you make changes swiftly and easily using macros or tools. There is no more intuitive way of working with audio. Here we show you how it’s done.

Melodyne in practice – with both vocal and instrumental tracks

Pitch correction basics in essential – basic editing techniques, using a bluesy and soulful vocal performance as an example

Quick and easy vocal tuning – How to improve the intonation of your vocals with the Pitch Macro

Perfect comping in Cubase – See here how, thanks to ARA, Cubase makes perfect comping with Melodyne possible

Reshaping samples in Cubase – Reshape any samples you like in a more musical way than was ever possible

Melodyne in Cubase with ARA – This short film shows the advantages of the ARA integration of Melodyne into Cubase

A quantum leap In vocal editing – Melodyne 5’s new vocal functions and sibilant detection

The Grammy Award-winning world of Melodyne

Melodyne 5 essential offers you the most important Melodyne functions for intonation and timing. It is simple to operate and sounds just as good as the larger Melodyne editions.

If you enjoy working with the “Melodyne blobs”, you can upgrade at any time to any of the larger editions at a apecial price. By doing so, you will obtain, for example, tools for editing the vibrato, formants and volume of your recordings, as well as the ability to correct even polyphonic parts (e.g. guitar or piano) and display and edit multiple tracks simultaneously in the Melodyne plug-in window.

You can explore the entire world of Melodyne right now: Just choose “License” from Melodyne’s “Help” menu and activate your free, no-strings-attached, 30-day trial period for the larger editions.

Overview of the various Melodyne editions

Guidance and inspiration

Getting started is easy! In the Melodyne Help Center, you’ll find loads of videos about Melodyne, ranging from a step-by-step launch guide to professional tips on optimal vocal editing. Concise and easy to understand, they’ll teach you in the shortest possible time how to get the best out of your Melodyne. You can access the Help Center directly at any time from the Help menu inside Melodyne.

To the videos in the Melodyne Help Center

System requirements

For Melodyne 5 essential, assistant, editor and studio

macOS	Intel Dual Core processor (Quad Core or better recommended), 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended), macOS 10.12 (64-bit) or higher. Melodyne 5.2 or higher runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs.
Windows	Intel or AMD Dual Core processor (Quad Core or better recommended), 4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended), Windows 10 (64-bit), Windows 11, ASIO-compatible audio hardware.
Activation	Computer-based or iLok USB dongle (2nd or 3rd generation), Melodyne essential only computer-based. Internet access is required for the first activation.
Interfaces	Plug-in operation via VST3, AU or AAX. ARA integration with compatible DAWs, as set out in the section on DAW compatibility.

The system requirements listed above apply when Melodyne is running as a stand-alone program. When it is running as a plug-in, however, the system requirements of the DAW must also be met.