Natural pitch correction

Vocals should sound perfectly in tune, but undoctored.
Three independent tools are offered for pitch correction that allow you to modify the intonation and vibrato of a performance in such a way that its flaws vanish but its vitality, presence and penetration remain intact. This can be done with surgical precision by hand or using the intelligent macro, which, like a trained ear, can distinguish between the kind of deviations and fluctuations in pitch that are unintended and the kind that are the lifeblood of a perfect performance.
You obtain vocal tracks that are as perfect as you could wish, yet sound as though they’d never been touched.

A quantum leap in vocal editing – Hands-on film about the vocal functions and Sibilant Detection

The tuning tools – How the tools for pitch-center, -modulation and -drift interact and are best used in practice

Fast and easy editing – The clicks that count for musical pitch correction

Mixing tricks for sibilants – Putting the pitched components and the sibilants on separate tracks with separate effects

Natural transitions – Note transitions are a powerful means of optimizing a performance

Adding excitement to vocals – Crafty vocal enhancement through parallel editing

Tightening up vocal doubles – Strategies and workflows for perfect timing when double-tracking

Fine tuning the pitch detection – Advanced techniques for natural intonation correction

Time handles – How to optimize the phrasing of lead and doubled vocals using time handles

Distorted Vocals – Tips and tricks for editing vocals wit a lot of grit or screaming

Greater expression

A good vocal performance depends on more than just correct intonation.
Timing, phrasing and dynamics also play key roles. Naturally, you can also control these with Melodyne, by adjusting the position, length and internal timing of notes as well as their volume and the way they fade in and out.
Since Melodyne processes the pitched and unpitched components of each note separately, you can tame unpleasant sibilants, consonants and breath noises far more accurately than with a de-esser.
You can alter the tone color with the Formant Tool or make more radical alterations with Melodyne studio’s Sound Editor.
In this way, you can optimize all the key musical parameters to obtain a perfect vocal track from a less-than-perfect performance.

The timing tools – Quantize notes, change their position and length, and redetermine their internal timing

The leveling tools – Adjusting the dynamics of individual notes or entire passages

The creative use of note separations – How to edit the finest details by splitting notes

Mixing tricks for sibilants – Putting the pitched components and the sibilants on separate tracks with separate effects

Natural transitions – Note transitions are a powerful means of optimizing a performance

Background vocals: phrasing and timing – Achieving balanced interaction with the lead vocals

The Sound Editor – Achieve anything from the most subtle changes in tone color to the weirdest of sound effects

A quantum leap in vocal editing – Hands-on film about the vocal functions and Sibilant Detection

Any instrument, any sample

The voice is only one of many instruments.
Melodyne isn’t just designed for vocals. Recordings and samples of every conceivable sound source can benefit from its unique editing capabilities. With Melodyne essential and assistant, you can edit monophonic sources; with Melodyne editor and studio, polyphonic ones like the guitar or piano as well – even each note individually and always with all the typical Melodyne functions.
There’s virtually no recording or sample that can’t be adapted or optimized with Melodyne.

The ideal algorithm for each track – The algorithm as the basis for creative freedom and optimum sound quality

Working with chords – Deals with the chord functions and adapting samples

Piano: Controlling dynamics with the Leveling Macro – Melodyne as the perfect complement to compressors, gates etc.

Editing the bass – How to make the bass a solid foundation in the mix

Drums: Shaping sounds with the Fade Tool – Smooth or crisp? Nuanced dynamics for your drums

Reshaping samples in Cubase 11 – Reshape any samples you like in a more musical way than was ever possible

Guitars: Proper note assignment – Correctly displaying, replacing and copying notes

Guitars: Timing tips and tricks – Optimizing the timing of chords and notes

Guitars: Getting the sound right – Using the Sound Editor to adjust the timbre in unique ways

The Sound Editor: tips on bass – Enhancing the bass by isolating individual partials and processing them separately

Adapt, reshape, reinvent music

The context is as important as the notes themselves.
Notes don’t exist in isolation. They combine to form melodies, harmonies, rhythms and tempos. Melodyne offers you the same power to reshape the musical context as the notes themselves. You can redraw vocal lines note by note, introduce melodic and rhythmic variations, add ornamentation, create vocal harmonies. And enjoy the same creative freedom with instruments of all kinds as well – even polyphonic ones.

Thanks to Melodyne’s Tempo Detection and Chord Track, you can adapt any library sample to your project in next to no time. Turning a short guitar riff into a song-length accompaniment that even adjusts automatically to tempo changes.
But it also works the other way round: you can take the scales, chords and tempos of a live recording as the basis for a new project, and make samples and other recordings added later adapt perfectly to the live recording.

And thanks to its detailed analysis of the sound, Melodyne knows the exact weight of each overtone of each individual note and is able therefore, through the Sound Editor in Melodyne 5 studio, to offer you an extraordinary degree of control over the timbre: imagine a graphic equalizer that let you govern the level not of individual frequency bands but of individual overtones. Or a macro with which you could emphasize certain vocal characteristics and tone down others. Or a type of morphing that allowed you to give one track the sound characteristics of another. A paradise for sophisticated sound design!

Working with chords – Deals with the chord functions and adapting samples

The Sound Editor – Achieve anything from the most subtle changes in tone color to the weirdest of sound effects

Live a little, working without a click – Tracking the tempo of recordings and bringing them into sync

Creating realistic harmonies – How to construct convincing backing vocals swiftly

Background vocals: phrasing and timing – Achieving balanced interaction with the lead vocals

Reshaping samples in Cubase 11 – Reshape any samples you like in a more musical way than was ever possible

Scales and tuning systems – Flexible, musically sensitive editing, analysis and adaptation of recordings

The human touch, tempos that breathe – Reshaping the tempo without losing the feel of a performance

Get there fast

The finest function is of little use if it slows down the workflow.
All Melodyne technologies are designed to offer you audio editing that not only sounds natural and musical but is performed in a natural, musical way. So your editing can be as finely nuanced and sensitive as the performance itself. And the results obtained just as fast and intuitively.
The key components in all this are the “blobs”, which allow you not only to hear but also to see, move and modify the notes. Whether by hand, using Melodyne’s versatile tools, or automatically, through the intelligent macros. And thanks to Multitrack Note Editing, you can display as many tracks as you like in a single window of Melodyne studio and edit notes on multiple tracks simultaneously.
Working with audio couldn’t be any more intuitive, musical or effortless.

The basic workflow – The basic procedure for swift, intuitive editing

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

Editing multiple tracks simultaneously - Viewing and editing multiple tracks in context

The tuning tools – How the tools for pitch-center, -modulation and -drift interact and are best used in practice

The timing tools – Quantize notes, change their position and length, and redetermine their internal timing

The leveling tools – Adjusting the dynamics of individual notes or entire passages

The last word

Technology should inspire you, not dictate to you.
The more complex the music, the greater the scope for differences of interpretation – regarding the chords or tempo, for example. And although Melodyne’s analysis is very reliable, it may not always interpret your music quite as you intended. Fortunately, you are never forced to accept the results of the automatic detection; you can adjust and refine them at will. This guarantees you an interpretation that corresponds exactly to your ideas. You can even fine-tune the sophisticated playback algorithms to suit your material in order to achieve the highest quality, most natural sound possible.

Tweaking algorithms – How to adjust the algorithm to achieve still better results from difficult material

Telling tones and overtones apart – How to ensure that all the notes played, and only those notes, are displayed

Optimizing complex material – The right separations for the best possible sound and maximum creative freedom

Sibilants and de-essing – More precise and better targeted than any de-esser

To hand in every situation

Melodyne is there where you need it.
Melodyne runs under macOS or Windows, as a stand-alone program, or as a plug-in (VST3, AU, AAX, ARA) in a DAW. Melodyne fits seamlessly into every conceivable production environment.
In the absence of ARA, the passage you wish to edit must first be transferred via the standard interface to the Melodyne plug-in. This takes a little time, but it’s worth it.
ARA, on the other hand, allows a more user-friendly type of DAW integration, as it allows DAW tracks to be opened and edited directly in Melodyne without any transfer being required. And also the exchange of many valuable musical parameters between your DAW and Melodyne. Depending which one you’re using, Melodyne and your DAW are sometimes so closely integrated that the two programs almost feel like one and offer many additional workflow advantages as a result.

Melodyne in Logic Pro X – Learn here how the ARA integration in Logic works, what you may need to consider and how your workflow benefits from all this

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

Studio One: Adapting short samples – Adapt polyphonic samples to match the chord progression and key of any composition

Melodyne essential in Pro Tools – Are you already familiar with Pro Tools but new to Melodyne? Then this is the video for you!

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

Studio One: “Ghost” v. “real” copies – Enjoy maximum flexibility when copying audio events

Studio One: Adapting loops – Synchronize any loop perfectly to the fluctuating tempo of a live recording

Try out Melodyne 5 studio free of charge

Let Melodyne 5 studio convince you: try it out for 30 days – free of charge and without obligation.

You can test all its functions to your heart’s content and without any limitations, saving everything and making further use of it later – exactly as though you’d already purchased the application. During the trial period, you can even switch to the smaller editions to compare their various function sets. This makes finding the right edition simple.

Incidentally, the Melodyne 5 trial version will still run on your computer, even if in the past you have used an earlier trial version of Melodyne on it.

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Melodyne 5 studio

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