Professional vocal editing

Melodyne brings out the best in your vocal recordings. With note-based editing, you can make corrections, improvements and changes exactly where you want to. Using intelligent correction functions and musical tools that are highly efficient and practical. In consequence, you can bring vocal tracks as close to perfection as you care to, and yet – thanks to Melodyne technologies – they sound as natural as if they had never been edited at all. And if you wish, you can rearrange the vocals, change the melody and even generate additional voices or vocal harmonies.
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For all instruments

Melodyne isn’t only for vocals. Every conceivable type of recording or sample can benefit from its unique editing and processing possibilities. From double bass to piccolo, from banjo to grand piano, from a drum loop to ambient drones. Take a lick from your library and adjust it to your song. In tempo, rhythm, harmonic content and tone color. Remove notes from chords or add new ones. Combine tracks from different songs to create a new one. Breathe new life into samples and old recordings. With Melodyne, you can.
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Musicality as the highest goal

Despite its high-tech algorithms, Melodyne never feels “technical”. Because all Melodyne technologies are aimed at offering you audio editing that is natural and musical – in the way you work and the sound. Our aim is to enable you to bring as much nuance and sensitivity to your editing with Melodyne as the musician did to the original performance.

This can be seen in the precise analysis of the musical content of your recordings and the multitude of high-resolution parameters to which you are afforded access. It can be felt in the intuitiveness of the note “blobs” you can manipulate and modify at will. It can be heard in the sophisticated play algorithms to which Melodyne owes its celebrated sound quality. And it lies in the many details that make working with Melodyne singularly satisfying and the results of unrivaled excellence.

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In the depth lies the power

Correcting intonation is just the beginning. When Melodyne analyzes your recordings, it doesn’t just track the changing pitch of the signal. Identifying the individual notes in polyphonic recordings is a far more complex process. And that isn’t all. For Melodyne also separates the notes from one another in the right places, observes how they change over time, and locates sibilants. It identifies tempos and maps tempo progressions with great accuracy. It relates the pitches of the notes to one another to identify scales, keys and chords. In short: Melodyne takes a very thorough look at your recordings. And the depth and subtlety of its analysis, together with the algorithms, put editing functions of corresponding depth and subtlety at your fingertips.

A few examples: Three different tools are provided for the editing of pitch, so the vibrato does not suffer when the overall pitch of a note is changed. Melodyne distinguishes between the pitched and noise-like components of notes, allowing you to edit them separately. And the correction macros work intelligently, reining in “outliers”, while preserving subtle human fluctuations in pitch, volume or tempo. You will find editing functions of similar subtlety and sophistication in all areas of Melodyne.

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How to integrate Melodyne

Melodyne operates as a plug-in in your DAW. Or stand-alone. The most convenient way to integrate Melodyne into your DAW is via the ARA interface, which is supported by most DAW manufacturers. With ARA, you can open and edit tracks directly in Melodyne. In the absence of ARA, the desired passage must first be transferred to the Melodyne plug-in via one of the normal VST3, AU or AAX interfaces. This takes a little time, though it is well worth the wait.

In either case, the Multitrack Note Editing of the edition Melodyne studio offers you a truly exceptional working experience: You see the notes of as many tracks as you want in a single Melodyne window and can select and edit the notes of multiple tracks simultaneously. With all Melodyne has to offer. Working with audio couldn’t be more intuitive, musical or efficient.

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The editions compared

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Multi-tracking – view and manage multiple tracks in a single windowX
Multitrack Note Editing – edit the notes of multiple tracks simultaneouslyX
Track-transcending macros – apply the macros to multiple tracks simultaneouslyX
Quantize to reference track – make one track adopt the timing of anotherX
Sound Editor – unique, overtone-based sound designX
DNA Direct Note Access – algorithms for polyphonic instruments such as piano and guitarXX
Editing of individual notes within chords – with all the tools and macrosXX
Extended tempo functions – map and edit sudden or gradual changes of tempoXX
Extended scale functions – create and modify scales; extract scales from audio materialXX
Audio-to-MIDI – export notes to a MIDI fileXXX
Inspectors – swift access to all parametersXXX
All Melodyne’s tools – for editing pitch, formants, volume, timing and much else besidesXXX
New: Fade Tool – perfect control of dynamics with note-based fadesXXX
New: Sibilant Tool – per-note adjustment of volume ratio between pitched and unpitched vocal sounds; de-essingXXX
New: “Melodic” algorithm with sibilant detection – for perfect yet invariably natural-sounding resultsXXXX
New: Musically weighted pitch analysis – for psycho-acoustically optimal intonation correctionXXXX
New: Leveling macro – reduce or eliminate excessive volume disparities between notesXXXX
New: Chord Track and chord recognition – bring notes into line harmonically, extract chords from audioXXXX
New: “Percussive Pitched” algorithm – for instruments such as tabla and berimbau or 808 kick drumsXXXX
All the algorithms without DNA – for melodic, percussive and complex materialXXXX
Edit note assignments – full control over the algorithmsXXXX
Melodyne’s Main Tool – edit the pitch, position and duration of notes and note separationsXXXX
Pitch and Time macros – perfect or improve intonation and timing with intelligent automationXXXX
Stand-alone or in your DAW – integrated via ARA , AU, VST 3 or AAXXXXX
Intercompatibility – open and edit projects created by other editionsXXXX
Compatibility with Melodyne 4 – open and edit Melodyne 4 projectsXXXX

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
How you want to work with audio today. Melodyne 5 studio is the complete Melodyne, with all Melodyne’s unique functions and possibilities. For professional vocal editing, choirs, instruments of all kinds, and samples. And with a multi-track workflow unsurpassed in terms of ease-of-use and musicality.
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Melodyne 5 essential
The easy way to begin. With Melodyne 5 essential, you edit your vocals using the basic functions for pitch and timing. Musical, quick and easy. And if you need more, you can always upgrade, paying only the difference.
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Melodyne 5 assistant
The path to professional vocals. Melodyne 5 assistant offers the complete Melodyne toolkit for pitch, timing, vibrato, phrasing, formants and dynamics. Everything you need for professional vocal editing.
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Melodyne 5 editor
Melodyne power for vocals, instruments of all kinds, and samples. Melodyne 5 editor contains all the professional vocal functions. Plus the legendary DNA algorithm for polyphonic audio. With it, you can adapt any library sample to the chords of your song.
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