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Explore The Ultimate Musical Audio Editing Toolkit For Your Music Productions

Melodyne comes in four different editions, the smallest being Melodyne Essential (this deal) and the largest Melodyne Studio. All of them use the same algorithms and tone generation technology; they differ only in the range of functions offered. All editions share the following features:

• Note-based, musical operation: Melodyne identifies the individual notes within an audio file and understands the place of each within the overall musical context. Thanks to its intuitive operation, it affords you easy access to every detail of every note, giving you an incomparable degree of control over the performance.
• Fine-tuning note assignments: Although as a rule the musical analysis of your recordings and samples is highly accurate, instances may occur where the material is ambiguous and Melodyne hasn’t quite interpreted it as you would wish. Fortunately, this is easily remedied: You can edit and fine-tune Melodyne’s interpretation to your heart’s content, until it tallies exactly with your own.
• Algorithms for melodic, percussive and complex audio material: Edit vocals, instruments, drums, drones… Versatility is one of Melodyne’s greatest strengths.
• Intelligent macros for pitch, timing and volume: Intelligent macros make remedying defects and enhancing recordings a simple, fast and intuitive task, reducing to a bare minimum the number of clicks required.
• Chord functions: The Chord Grid and Chord Track let you work with exceptional speed and efficiency. If you want, Melodyne will even identify the chords for you.
• You’re always given a choice: Melodyne never alters your material automatically. You’re the one in control at all times. With the power to shape every facet of every note in an intuitive and musical fashion.
• macOS and Windows: You can run every edition either as a stand-alone application or as a plug-in (VST3, AU, AAX). DAW integration using ARA Audio Random Access is especially user-friendly.
• All editions are compatible with one other: A project begun in Melodyne Essential can be opened later in Melodyne Studio and edited using the larger function set of the more powerful edition. By the same token, a project edited using Melodyne Studio can be opened and played back in Melodyne Essential with all the earlier edits faithfully reproduced. However, if you wish to do any further editing there, it will be using the more limited function set of Melodyne Essential.
• For upgrades, you only pay the difference: If you want to start with one of the smaller editions and upgrade to a larger one later – no problem. And you won’t pay a cent more at the end of the day than if you’d bought the larger edition in the first place.

What Can Melodyne Do?

Natural Pitch Correction

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.

Greater Expression

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. In this way, you can optimize all the key musical parameters to obtain a perfect vocal track from a less-than-perfect performance.

Any Instrument, Any Sample

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; there’s virtually no recording or sample that can’t be adapted or optimized with Melodyne.

Get There Fast

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.

Working with audio couldn’t be any more intuitive, musical or effortless.

The Last Word

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.